I am unclear how exactly I can heat up the content in the drop-in liner whether it is formula or cold breastmilk? Can you use bottle warmer?
150718
yes you could use the bottle warmer. We leave the bottle in the warmer for a minute or 2 and it'll be nice an warm. Depends on the warmer.
150719
My daycare used a bottle warmer with these worked fine. At home I just warmed in a mug of warm/hot water. DO NOT microwave.
150720
I'm not sure about a bottle warmer, since the bag inserted to the bottle means that the milk/formula wouldn't get much contact with the outside surface of the bottle being warmed. When I pumped, I just warmed my stored containers of breastmilk in a hot water bath before putting them in the bottle. When my son was on formula, he liked it room temperature so as long as I kept a supply of water in a bottle on the counter, I had no need to warm it. A few times I did need to warm the breastmilk while it was in the bottle (had stored the milk in the bottle in the fridge) and I just submerged the whole thing in a hot water bath and dried it off before giving it to my son. I'm not sure about a bottle warmer, since the bag inserted to the bottle means that the milk/formula wouldn't get much contact with the outside surface of the bottle being warmed. When I pumped, I just warmed my stored containers of breastmilk in a hot water bath before putting them in the bottle. When my son was on formula, he liked it room temperature so as long as I kept a supply of water in a bottle on the counter, I had no need to warm it. A few times I did need to warm the breastmilk while it was in the bottle (had stored the milk in the bottle in the fridge) and I just submerged the... » Read More I'm not sure about a bottle warmer, since the bag inserted to the bottle means that the milk/formula wouldn't get much contact with the outside surface of the bottle being warmed. When I pumped, I just warmed my stored containers of breastmilk in a hot water bath before putting them in the bottle. When my son was on formula, he liked it room temperature so as long as I kept a supply of water in a bottle on the counter, I had no need to warm it. A few times I did need to warm the breastmilk while it was in the bottle (had stored the milk in the bottle in the fridge) and I just submerged the whole thing in a hot water bath and dried it off before giving it to my son. « Show Less
150721
Yes, you can use bottle warmer, I use it and I have no problem at all with the temperature and drop ins. But just to be careful if is breast milk, you could warm the breast milk in the bag before and then put it in the drop in. That's what I do.
1602248
Maggie...you can't, because you can't add your warm breast milk to cold breast milk (so I've read). What I do if I have a bag I want to fill more is I pump into a bottle, then put that in the fridge to cool and then when they are the same temperature in the fridge, dump the contents of the bottle into the bag.
149752
I have found the same thing. I use another container in my bottle warmer and then pour it into the mam bottle. It is an extra step but I like the mam bottles so much otherwise that I still use them.
1973207
You can not reheat the milk once it has been heated. To get the best results you need Cold and Fresh milk.
673748
I have never tried that. What I do is leave a bag/s of frozen milk overnight in the fridge to slowly thaw. I then empty in bottle the next day and then warm it as I need. If I need the frozen bag ASAP, I gently thaw under warm running water. Empty into bottle and warm in the warmer.
2132601
Theoretically you could, but I'd have concerns with heating up from frozen and glass cracking, just like any cooking situation. You'd be much better off freezing in bags, I use Lansinoh Breastmilk bags, put the frozen bag in the fridge the night before you plan on using it or 15 min. in warm (not hot) water, transfer to bottle and heat.
2232674
I would not warm the bottle as it is a soft plastic. I squeeze mine out directly into the measuring cup or spoon.
2015047
We freeze milk in them all the time. We put 2oz in the 4oz liners, freeze them in the bottle with a lid, then use a twist tie once frozen and pop them into a large ziplock bag. When it's time to use, simply place back in the bottle to thaw. We place the liner in half a toilet paper roll first to make sure the frozen bag doesn't expand beyond the width of the bottle neck.
1755786
I always just put a container of water in the microwave for a few minutes, and then let that hot water heat the bottle. I would swirl it around a bit to speed up the process. Not sure how this affected the nutrients, but I never broke a bottle and we have a happy, healthy toddler.
2058827
I found it worked more efficiently and faster to warm up my breast milk bags than it did formula in a bottle. I highly recommend this and wish I had it for my other two kids. I now carry warm water in it to make my formula bottles or to warm up baby food. Hope this helps!
2056746
If you store the milk in bags, instead of bottles, the bags are best warmed in a bowl of warm water; this goes especially quick, if you store the bags lying flat. I breastfed, and hardly gave bottles, I used my warmer a couple of times, but found it to be unnecessary. Personal preference, I suppose. I had a number of different bottles that I tried, all of them fit in the warmer. Later, I used this a few times to heat up frozen food, it worked well, but I didn't stick with it.
1026951
Sorry, I don't know because I've never had to warm up his milk or anything. My baby drinks his milk straight from the fridge.
377390
mix it in with pumped breastmilk or some water and give in a bottle or a dropper like the kind you use for baby tylenol, etc
907442
I would be worried warming any breast milk storage bottle in the kind of bottle warmer that boils away the water. That's just me. We got the kiinde warmer for that reason.
1833619
Yes, you can use it for formula or breastmilk. On the package it even mentions using it to warm baby food in jars.
1157069
I thought the same thing. Then I realized that there not actully for storeing. There just baby bottle liners that are made for breast milk. Either way I was not super happy with the product. They didnt fit the bottles well and I found that I was spilling milk as I was always trying to fit the liner over the bottle. I hope this helps. Have a great Christmas.
748962
We would heat milk up in a separate container and then poor it into this sippy cup. We never tried to warm it up in the cup