Philips Avent Express Baby Food and Bottle Warmer
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Baby Products Reviews of Philips Avent Express Baby Food and Bottle Warmer
Customer Review: Don't Do it!
Summary: 2 Stars
This Product line has always gotten 5 stars from me, but not wih this item. It's a WASTE! You're better off just warming up water and letting the bottle sit in it for a minute or two. And least you won't be outed twenty or thirty some odd bucks. This can be very dangerous to baby if you are not careful. I purchase one for myself and one for my cousin since our babies are one month apart. I used mine a few and it over heated the bottle and I followed the directions and everything. At first it feels warm but when you shake the bottle sometimes you feel the temp of the bottle getting warmer and that tends to happen because the center of the bottle gets the hottest. It has NO timer or on/off button so you have to babysit the thing. BE CAREFUL you may scortch babys mouth with the hot milk. Lord forbid if you forget that it has to be unplug it will overheat and konk out like the one I purchased for my cousin. After that she cursed me out and went to warming milk on the stove.Customer Review: a WARMER review
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, reading the other "not-so-warm" reviews was amusing to read!!! I say this because, out of all the warmers out there, the AVENT one is far the best! NEW MOMS, READ the directions FIRST... There is a fill line inside the warmer that shows you how much water to put... ALSO, in the DIRECTION BOOKLET, it SAYS DO NOT PLACE WATER FIRST, PLACE BOTTLE FIRST then FILL with WATER to DESIRED LEVEL of formula in bottle... If you are using the 9oz bottles then fill to the top of the warmer! To SOLVE the problem of the ON/OFF switch dilemna, I plugged my unit on one of those multiple outlet strips with a switch... Instead of unplugging the unit, I just turn the switch... SIMPLE!!! LADIES be inventive when it comes to children, this is my first, AND I am finding new ways to streamline! It holds the AVENT, MAWS, and JOHNSONS Healthflow ANGLED very nicely! The BEST thing about this warmer is it REALLY HEATS EVENLY and HAS a nice WARM consistency. ENJOY!Customer Review: A must have for a new mom!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Warming up bottles quickly was a challenge for my husband and I when we had our newborn who couldn't wait a minute for a bottle.
We tried 1)warming water in microwave and putting bottle in water and waiting forever for it to warm up 2)then we kept warm water in a flask and mixed formula instantly using that warm water and of course the bubbles formed during that mixing and instant feeding caused tons of gas and spit up for our baby. Nothing was working well for us and we would loose lots of sleep waiting for bottles to warm up or bubbles to settle in the middle of the night. Finally I tried a Walmart brand bottle warmer...big mistake. Returned that one and got this one and it has been our life saver. It heats up 7oz in no time. When we go somewhere, the unit is small enough to pack in the diaper bag. I don't go anywhere without it now. I highly recommend this to anyone. Continue to clean it with vinegar to help with calcium and other mineral deposits.
Customer Review: Overheating is too easy. Safety feature needed.
Summary: 1 Stars
The recommended setting for avent bottles is the highest setting, which (according to my measurements) keeps the water at just over 175 degrees F, for as long as the unit is plugged in.Recommended durations are on the side of the unit, but if your bottle isn't full, the duration is much shorter and you have to guess.
I always end up putting the bottle in warm or cold tap water for a minute to "fine-tune" the temperature after I take it out of the avent bottle warmer, so this product doesn't save me any work, just a bit of time.
If you leave the bottle in too long, it will keep climbing towards 175 degrees F. Some sort of safety feature is missing. Certainly a shut-off switch on a timer would be good, and easy to make. Ideally the heating water would cool so that the bottle and the heating water would converge towards 98 degrees over time.
Summary: If I want instant hot water, I'll buy an electric teapot, not a bottle warmer.
Customer Review: Overheats most of the time
Summary: 2 Stars
The lack of an on/off switch is not a big deal. This bottle warmer has a light that goes on and stays on till it reaches a certain temperature then goes off, then on again when it starts cooling down. This allows it to maintain a constant temperature. What bothered me is that after it heats the bottle and the light goes off I would expect the milk to stay at a constant temperature and not to continue overheating...and it overheated everytime. I could not change the baby and leave the milk in it for an extra minute or 2 or it would get way too hot. Now on power level number 2 it was pretty much the same thing it just took longer to heat and with a crying baby every minute seems like forever. Number 1 is way too weak unless you let the milk sit there and know you will use it in a half hour then it is just warm. I returned mine and switched to powder formula and use sterilized room temperature water. No warming, no headaches and my baby loves it.