Philips Avent iQ Bottle Warmer

life saver
this bottle warmer has been a life saver for my husband and I, mostly late at night when our newborn daughter wakes up screaming for a bottle. I have been expressing breast milk and warming that up in it. You can use regular avent bottles in it and also avent via storage cups in which you can freeze breast milk. Love this product! Would totally reccomend, great value for price... everywhere else I looked it cost more.

Almost perfect
We have twin infants who are formula-fed... lots of bottles being heated here. We have tried cheaper bottle warmers and burned out two of the cheaper ones before the twins were 2 months old. This one is by far the best out of the three different models we've tried.

A couple of things to note: it's easy to use for us, but we're familiar with baby products and such. For grandparents who come and try to babysit, the multi-step process to use seems to be too much for them to figure out.

It took us a couple of tries to figure out that our formula (thickened with rice cereal because of reflux issues) needs to heat on the baby food setting, so it takes a little bit longer to heat 8 oz of refrigerated "baby food" in a bottle. But it heats so thoroughly, without overcooking.

We love it so much that we're ordering a second one for downstairs (kept the first one in the babies' room). It's worth the money and seems much hardier than the other ones we used in the past!

Not necessary
This poor review is no knock against the product or its proper functioning, but rather a knock against all bottle warmers in general. Since purchasing this unit we have used it all of one time. Since then it has sat on the kitchen counter collecting dust and taking up space. When children are hungry they want food now, not 10 minutes from now. 20 seconds in the microwave and a good shake to ensure there are no hot spots is far more efficient than firing up one of these things. New parents, save your money for something that is useful like a good baby monitor or better bottles. You don't need one of these things.

DO NOT BUY...
..any philips avent product if you think it will make your life with your baby any easier! We have purchased the avent IQ sterilizer which stopped working after a day, the BPA bottles which all leak and after receiving this bottle warmer today it worked once and has stopped! All the buttons are flashing which according to the manual means the lid is not closed properly, it is a rather flimsy catch to close it, but seriously, how can you close a lid incorrectly? After contacting philips avent helpline for the first two items they did send replacements after several phone calls and rather reluctantly! It appears to be too much to ask for an avent product to work and I will ensure I NEVER buy anything from them again!

Excellent time saver
A few of the other reviews have said this is hard to use, but I found it quite simple.

You use 1 oz of water if you are warming a bottle from room or chilled temperature, and 5 oz if you are warming frozen milk or any non-liquid food from any temperature.

Hold the power button for 3 seconds until it beeps. Select the appropriate icon for food type and temperature. (Bottle/Jar and Room Temp/Chilled/Frozen) Then, press the arrow icon until you reach the amount of food you are warming (in ounces) and then hold the arrow icon down for a few seconds until it beeps and begins the warming process. Not difficult.

I do find that sometimes it is good to tell it to warm 3 oz of food, even if you only have 2 in the bottle. It seems to do a better job of warming it if you tell it there is a little more than there actually is.

Other than that, great product!