Bottle maker machines

I’ve been debating this too. I know a friend had this and it made her kids ill. I investigated after a month or so and took it apart and the tubes were all mouldy. But my thoughts are, yes it’s a wonderful machine but only if it’s cleaned on a regular basis

I bought a prep machine with my first and ditched it after a week as it made her really poorly/gassy. We got the Nuby rapid cool and it was life saving! We will use that again this time, I would highly recommend the Nuby as it’s NHS approved and really quick to make bottles x x

I’ve bought the tommee tippee perfect prep machine. Probably going to get the nuby rapid cool too for when I’m out :)

i’ve found it easiest to use the hot shot method with a nuby rapid cool with my 10m old or you can just use a spare baby bottle to have your cool boiled in, save your pennies! if you don’t know what the hot shot method is then let me know and i’ll explain x

Everyone I know with babies have said they are a game changer, for night feeds especially! And I looked online and Tommee Tippee perfect prep is the highest rated.. On Tommee Tippee right now you can get it for £69.99 plus an extra 15% off if its your first order with them, I got mine delivered within a couple of days. I think there will always be random stories for certain products but Ive never heard that so maybe few and far between or ppl not chnaging filters when they should.

@Amy @Sally with the hot shot, is it safe to put boiling water straight into the baby bottle? Then top up when the nuby water is ready? Thanks :)

My friend bought a tommee tippee prep machine and her midwife told her to stop using it

@Aleena ahh really, what was the midwife’s reasoning?

@Lily yeah that’s exactly what I do, boiling into the bottle directly then add formula + mix. Then add the remaining hot water from the Nuby once it’s cool enough. That’s if you do the ‘hot shot method’ or you can put the formula into the Nuby and do it all in that, just means you have to sterilise it after each feed if you do it that way xx

@Sally great thank you ☺️ x

She said they make babies really colicky and are hard to ensure the machine is actually clean

@Aleena thank you :) to be honest thinking about it my sister used a prep machine for her first baby and he was colicky and her second baby she didn’t use it as much and she wasn’t as colicky at all x

@Lily yes lovely xx

@Lily you’re welcome! I would advise against a prep machine, there’s been so many news articles about them not getting the water hot enough and even when cleaning them weekly them being mouldy etc! Rapid cool is so easy and much cheaper too! xx

We’ve always used a tommee tippee prep machine and never had any issues but I know there have been articles about temp etc. I’d have thought if you buy the newest version now you’d be fine. Ours definitely spits out boiling water to begin with which is what it should do and then the rest doesn’t matter, it’s only to kill the initial bacteria in the formula (in the unlikely case that any is present)