Tommee tippee prep Machine

[Craftycakey15]

I will be bottle feeding my newborn when they are born next month. I bought the prep machine but have read somewhere today that it isn't recommended for newborns. Something to with the amount of water in the bottle not being enough and that children became very constipated. Can anyone advise ?

The water amount is the same as if you made it up yourself. I used it with my dd when she was fairly newborn with no problems. It's a godsend for bottle feeding

Yeah, no problems here.

It's fine for newborns. The minimum ounces it can make is 4oz though so you may have quite a bit of waste in a bottle for a while until baby is reliably finishing that much.

I don't see how this is any easier than using a kettle? A friend was raving about them but I can't see how it's easier than boiling a kettle

At 1am, 2.30am 4am etc it's a lot easier to press a button than boil a kettle and cool or warm up bottles whilst the baby screams and you run around hoping your tiddler doesn't wake. I thought the same, just use a kettle, but bought the prep half price and loved it.

Anyway - never heard it can't be used for newborns. Do you have a link?

Toddler not tiddler!

Ah right,if you make up a fresh bottle every time. I made them in advance.

It is much easier than boiling a kettle!

Our health visitor told us they cannot actively 'recommend' the Perfect Prep machine because of uncertainty as to how hot the water in the machine actually gets compared with a kettle and therefore concerns over sterilisation.

I don't have one so I don't know the detail of how they work. I've heard brilliant things about then though!

I would have got one in a heartbeat. Making bottles is the worst thing about having a baby. We made them in advance in the end.

Also, how can they not know how hot the water gets in the pp?

I've heard the finish beep is too loud and wakes sleeping babies.

I thought that too Bagina She just said It is an issue which, as far as health visitors are concerned, exists but hasn't been answered satisfactorily by TT. I didn't ask anything further as I'm breastfeeding.

I have been toying with the pp machine - I plan to breastfeed but will need to switch to formula before I go back to work in a few months. It's reduced to 75 quid at Boots at the moment - usually 90 I think.