Yoomi Bottle Warmer Gets Milk The Perfect Temperature

Household Portable Travel — 24 November 2009

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Parents out there, you know how hard it can be to get a baby’s bottle warmed just right. But now, thanks to the Yoomi bottle, you can get the temperature of a bottle of milk EXACTLY to the right temperature.

The Yoomi bottle takes up to five ounces of milk and heats it to the exact temperature of breast milk, between 32 and 34 degrees Celsius, and it does it in just one minute. It was invented by a husband and wife duo who were desperate for a fast and easy way to heat milk. They’d fussed with microwaves, begged hot water off waiters at restaurants, everything in between. And then, after six years, the self-heating milk bottle was born from a sketch on a bar napkin.

Cold milk flows through heated warmer channels, thus heating the milk inside to the appropriate temperature. Never too hot or too cold again, the unit itself can be recharged fully 100 times before needing to be replaced. Frankly, I call this one a good idea–never again will you accidentally scald a baby with too-hot milk. Plus, they cost around forty bucks with replacement nipples at nine bucks for a two-pack, so here’s a shower gift that can’t miss.

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The article and manufacturer do not point out that powdered infant formula MUST be prepared using fresh water with a minimum temperature of 70C, any lower is not hot enough to kill pathogens that exist in formula milk powder which is not a sterile product even though tins/packs are sealed. The feed can then be cooled to the infants preferred temperature by holding the bottle under cold running water.

Therefore this Yoomi bottle product is not ideal for use in conjunction with formula milk powder.

Clare Byam-Cook as a former nurse/midwife who has endorsed the product should know this but appears not to be upto date with best practice.

Whilst the Yoomi is not safe to use as marketed with powdered formula, commercially sterile ready to feed liquid packs would be okay – unfortunately they are notably more expensive than powdered formula.

Gastroenteritis alone in bottlefed infants costs the UK NHS (therefore taxpayer) approx £50million per year.

Please safely protect the health of babies fed formula & check out the NHS upto date bottle feeding leaflet for further info. This safe preparation of powdered formula info is also available from the world health organisation.