Kiinde Kozii Baby Bottle Warmer and Breast Milk Warmer for Warming Breast Milk, Infant Formula and Baby Food

***Update: After 8 months of heavy daily use, the timer stopped working reliably. I contacted the company via their website, and after filling out a problem report, they are shipping out a new one. Customer service is extremely important in any product which is more expensive than the competition, and this does not disappoint. In all fairness, it's not easy to engineer a product that handles this combination of conditions with longevity. Electricity, tap water, heat, spilled food, mineral buildup, etc - it's tough to make it last.***We do a mixture of breast-feeding and formula supplementation, and for starters I bought a Philips AVENT Express Food and Bottle Warmer as a respectable trade off between quality of reviews and cost. This worked okay, but I found myself running into a few problems. The Avent warmer gets very hot - which heats things quickly, but makes timing all the more important. If you forget to set a timer, or have to address something (like a screaming/pooping baby) it is very easy for your bottle to get overheated. In a persistent state of sleep deprivation, this is very easy to do. This is at least an annoyance, and potentially quite dangerous. The other problem is forgetting to turn it off, which leads to wasted energy, all the water evaporating, rapid buildup of mineral deposits, and this is all to say nothing of a significant degree of faith in the auto-shutoff to keep from burning the house down.The Kiinde Kozii really addresses most all of these things quite well. The heating occurs on a timer, and the water itself isn't as hot. The water is circulated by pump, which compensates somewhat for the lower temp of the water bath. When the timer shuts off, the heating stops.Caveats:The Kozii does take about 1-3 minutes longer than the Avent warmer.You have to more carefully manage water levels in the Kozii (I keep a small container of water next to it for little top-ups)There is apparently a safety mechanism which kills the device permanently if you let it run completely dry 3 times. The flipside argument is that you would have to be quite oblivious for this to happen, as even a slightly low water level causes all manner of bubbling sounds.Price - this is the main reason I didn't bite on this from the beginning. It seemed excessive and frankly a bit nuts to spend this much on something that could be done with a much cheaper device. Arguments to this effect are still valid, but I think that in the balance, you could skip a few of the cute newborn outfits your baby will outgrow in a few days, and put the money into this instead. It doesn't quite hold the same emotional gravitas as the bunny onesie, but you will thank yourself repeatedly at midnight, 2am, 4am, etc... when you are feeding the baby safely instead of throwing out the liquid gold your wife pumped and you somehow managed to cook in the lesser warmer.

So, I had to go back to work part time when the kiddo was 3 weeks old, and my husband would be primary caretaker on those days, using pumped breastmilk. I told him I was going to order a bottle-warmer for him to use. He said he didn't need one. :o) After one day of trying to heat up the bottle the old fashioned way, with a demanding kid in one arm, he acknowledged he needed a bottle warmer.This one seemed pricey, but also had the best reviews, and seemed to be the only one that would work with the bottles we liked best (Como Tomo). It also has the advantage of using the "spa" method, where it creates a little vortex of perfect temperature water to heat up the milk without any danger of denaturing the proteins or overheating. It is totally worth the money!!We received it quickly (2 days!), and it works so easily and wonderfully! My own mother is ecstatic over how easy it is to use, and how well it works! It basically just has a timer on front, and once you determine the right time for your amount of milk in your bottles, you are good to go! When we received it, we used regular cow milk as our test substance, and tried it out from refrigerator and from freezer. (As an example, for my bottles, Como Tomo 250 ml, it takes 6.5 minutes to warm 2 oz of milk from refrigerator. It takes 20 to warm from frozen, so I usually put frozen milk (from Sensible Lines Milk Trays) in bottle night before, stick in fridge, and let it thaw that way). But, because of the way it works, it can accomodate any container, from breast milk frozen in bags, to other bottles, to even a glass I used to warm cream for my coffee (just testing). It never overheats the milk, and nothing ever spills.This actually also travels really easily, Just hold it upside down over a sink to drain out the water, and put it in the car. We have taken with us to grandmother's house for long weekends. I do usually use filtered or distilled water in it, just to make it easier to clean when the time comes. This has been one of my best baby purchases, worth every penny!

The media could not be loaded. I borrowed this product it broke. We ended up buying this product to replace there broken borrowed unit. About a year later the couple we borrowed it and us had another baby. So we returned the new unit to them and bought another unit for us. Turns out that unit failed on them months later and now mine is bad after 5 months of use. This will be our thirds baby warmer that we have to buy now and it dam sure will not be a kiinde!

So easy to use for my mom! It heats a bottle more evenly and quickly than the very expensive Bluetooth capable one I purchased previously. Simple and very effective. Just make sure you don’t let it run out of water as there is a note that if it runs out of water it will permanently cease to work for safety reasons.