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It's hard being a new mom (or even an experienced mom to a new baby) and sometimes we do things we know we shouldn't, despite what all the experts say. But this is a safe place to share your secrets (PM me)—we'll never tell.
This Week's Secret:
I microwave my baby's bottle. I know it's not suggested but sometimes my baby is too impatient and warming it in a cup takes longer.
We all have secrets and opinions—so thanks to this brave mom for sharing her honest thoughts, and thank you for keeping this conversation nonjudgmental!
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Comments (14)
I always did. We found with a small bottle that 10 seconds was enough to take the chill off. With an 8oz bottle we'd do 10 seconds, shake it up and test then another 10 seconds. 20 seconds was usually enough to warm it up. If the baby actually wanted a warm bottle we did it a little longer in 10-15 second intervals with shaking and testing in between.
We have 4 kids that were 100% formula fed and never had a single burn or anything. We'll do the same thing with the next baby.
Well, my son was exclusively breastfed, but I would never microwave a plastic bottle. I hope the people who are microwaving the bottles are using glass or at least BPA free ones. Even heating it for a few seconds will make the plastic leach chemicals into the formula.
http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20030331/danger-in-plastic-baby-bottles
It's not that it's not recommended it's that the FDA (and formula companies) strongly reccomed agaisnt it. Heating up baby bottles in the microwave is dangerous because it doesn't heat evenly and can creat pockets of super heated liquid. So when you test it on your wrist and go 'just perfect' youve actually risked the chance of unkowingly burning your child.
On this one....its not worth the risk
I do it. Not long enough to burn anything or anyone, just enough to take off the chill. we use glass bottles or I put in a coffee cup and transfer if it's going in a plastic bottle. The hot water or bottle warmers take forever when you've got a screaming hungry baby and you're hoping to not wake up the rest of the world at 3am, lol.
When I make formula bottles, I just run the tap water until it's lukewarm. People think you need to use bottled water to make formula, but you don't.....unless your tap water is nasty.
But I don't see anything wrong with microwaving the bottle just long enough (a few seconds) to take the chill off and then shaking the bottle to eliminate any hot spots.
OH COME ON! Just microwave a bowl of water and put the bottle IN it!
LAZY. Sheesh.
pollymom, you shouldn't ever use anything other than cold running water from the tap for consumption. The water the water, the more things it carries from the pipes into your water... minerals, metals, etc.
I never did when he was little I owuld put it in the bathroom sink so it stayed hot, if I used a cup the water got cold ot fast, now I just use room temperature water, I never microwaved ever!