Philips Avent iQ Bottle Warmer
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Baby Products Reviews of Philips Avent iQ Bottle Warmer
Customer Review: I love this warmer.
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this and have not been disappointed. The warmer is sitting on my bed stand and can be easily operated during the night "zombie night" feeds. My Dr Brown bottles are stored in an insulated bag next to the bed and when it's time to feed... bam. I have the convenience of warming up the bottles within arms length. I'd highly recommend it to any new parents. A bit pricey, but a sleep saver.
The only bad thing: I just hate emptying and refilling the warmer with water to compensate the water to bottle ratio. Other than that, it's a must have.
Customer Review: Leaves something to be desired
Summary: 2 Stars
This bottle warmer leaves something to be desired. It almost always takes a second time in the warmer to heat the bottle up enough. I have not used it yet for baby food or for a frozen bottle but heating a bottle up from refrigerator temp has has not been as flawless as I was hoping when I ordered this product, especially for the price that you pay for this warmer. Customer Review: excellent bottle warmer
Summary: 5 Stars
I have two bottle warmers from Avent, this one and the "Express Baby Food and Bottle Warmer." The IQ warmer is far superior. You can quickly program it for a bottle that contains milk at room temperature, or that's been refrigerated or frozen, and then program the number of ounces that you're warming. The result is milk that is at a good temperature every time. We use glass bottles and those work just fine. We have 3 month old twins, so the warmer gets a lot of use, and while it seems to take an eternity when the babies are wailing for their food, it only takes about 5 mins to warm 6 ounces.
The Express warmer doesn't have any of the programming features, so you end up just guessing when the milk is warmed enough, and it's very easy to overheat the milk. I always check it on my wrist anyway, but I sometimes worry that at 3am when my mind is in a fog I might let it get too hot. I have much more peace of mind with the IQ.
Customer Review: Great warmer for the home
Summary: 5 Stars
I've used this now for several weeks and have no complaints. It is much better than a bowl of hot water which is what I had been using. Only had it get to hot if I put that there was more milk in the bottle than there was... Customer Review: Almost perfect...
Summary: 4 Stars
This warmer is almost perfect for our needs. I can't complain too much as it is definitely a much better warmer than the other Avent warmer. Having used both, I'm far happier with this one and can honestly say it's a really good warmer.
However, I haven't had the same experience as the previous reviewer. First, the warmer definitely takes more than one ounce of water to heat bottles - the directions have me using about four ounces. This is not really an issue, except when you're traveling and have to keep refilling and repacking the warmer. Stay home and it won't ever bother you! Second, it only warms a 2 ounce room temperature bottle in one minute. To warm a standard 4 ounce bottle of refrigerated breastmilk it takes about three minutes.
Three minutes would be perfectly reasonable if only my one-month-old twins would patiently wait for their meal. The little ones definitely do not understand that their food takes a while to heat up. It's tough to decide which baby gets to eat while the other one is still waiting for their food to heat up!
Additionally, I've noticed that if it's been a while since I've warmed a bottle it doesn't heat quite as well (as most of the energy seems to wind up being used to heat the water). Then, the second bottle will come out too hot and have to sit a moment before it can be used. I just heat the first bottle as a larger amount of food (programming it for 5 oz when the bottle is only 4) and then doing the opposite for the second bottle. But this would only be an issue if you were heating two bottles each time and most folks wouldn't even notice it. However, if you are going to use it for two bottles, I like to heat one bottle up and then if the other baby isn't quite ready to eat I just set the second bottle in the already hot water and let it warm up that way (it takes just a few minutes).
All in all, a great warmer if not perfect.