bottle warmer for expressed breast milk?

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I'm going to start expressing in a few weeks so that dh can give one feed a day to our lovely dd who is currently 6 weeks...

Can anyone recommend a bottle warmer too use? Also, which bottles/teats are best with Bf?

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just use a microwave, or some hot water.
really, those things take SO long to heat up they';re hardly worth it

bottles/teats really don't matter, esp if it's only one feed a day

(before i get told off for recommending microwave- no, i wouldn;'t do it if expressing a lot, but for one feed a day it won't hurt!!!)

thisisyesterday what difference does it make the mount of feeds you use a microwave to heat up?

The bottle warmers I've used are really hard to regualte the temps.

I boil kettle and then sit bottle in jug of boiled water it's the best and easiest way.

Microwaving breast milk ruins it but I forget exactly why. Also don't shake it when cooling but swirl.

Warm it up by placing in a jug of warm, not hot, water, and it should take around 3 or 4 minutes. I just use tap water.

well, apparently microwaving damages some of the good stuff in breastmilk (antibodies etc etc)

so if you were full time expressing and feeding and using a microwave you wouldn't get all of the goodness of the breastmilk

but if baby is taking most feeds direct from the breast it's not really a problem

My DD daughter wont often take a bottle but we find NUK's the best with the rubber teat rather than silicone. Just warm the milk in a jug of hot water, wouldn't bother with a bottle warmer unless you are heating all day.
Good luck with the bottle and well done for getting to 6 weeks, it gets easier from now on

NUK and MAM are my prefered bottles for mothers that also BF.

It can be dangerous to microwave milk (any kind) because it creates "hot spots" and if it isn't mixed properly (difficult to do without shaking) it can burn a baby's mouth. I always used to defrost & heat in one go by standing the bag of milk in a jug of warm water.

thank you for the advice! Will use the jug of water method and will get some bottles... I fully intend on Bf until dd self weans but dh would like to feed occasionally and it'' help for when I restart my phd in april... Fingers crossed she'll play along, she has a stubborn character but giggles non stop too!

I've found the Breastflow bottles best (got mine in Mothercare) also just use a jug of warm water to heat. Hope the Phd goes well.

i thought breastmilk curdled if you microwaved it?
DD2 has just one bottle of expressed,i always stand it in a bowl of hot water. we use avent bottles with MAM teats -they are flat, supposedly like the breast.

i also use breast flow bottles dd seemed to gag on the tommee tippee ones but she can control the milk flow with the breast flow and also has to work for the milk rather than it just flowing out similar to bf

no, it doesn't curdle, it just affects the good stuff in it, and as bertie says can make hot spots.

the not shaking it thing is to do with some research that suggested that shaking broke up the long-chain fatty acids.
however i have read evidence that this is also not true!

and as well, if it's only the odd bottle here and there then having a few broken fatty acids really isn;t going to be a problem!
but yes, if you microwave it then give it a good shake, and ideally let it stand for a little while too