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

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.

***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.

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!

I bought the Kozii warmer in March 2012 when it had about 20 reviews; now there are 88 so I'm a bit late to the game. However, I learned a few things that seem worth pointing out.Pros:1. Simple twist timer that counts down like the heater timers in hotel bathrooms. You can't screw up. Put a bit too much time on? Just pull the bottle out early, you can't burn yourself. Not enough time? Just turn a bit more. I had to return a Dr. Brown's Bottle Warmer because the digital timer kept resetting itself to random values.2. Wide opening, fits Comotomo and other fat bottles - the heating tub is a shade larger than 3.5" in diameter.3. Doesn't scream "I'm a breastmilk bottle warmer!" Sits unobtrusively next to your Kitchenaid as if every kitchen has one. As if your house isn't a shrine to the gods of rainbow plastic already.Cons:1. No bell or buzzer to let you know when the timer is done. This would be nice, because the water doesn't drain back into the reservoir until the time goes absolutely down to zero, so you pull up a wet bottle if you get impatient, which you will.2. You have to optimize how much you fill the reservoir for the average container you will heat. If you sometimes heat fat bottles (which need very little water, or else the tub will overflow) and sometimes thin tubes Medela Breastmilk Freezing & Storage (*BPA Free) 12 Pack of 80ml Bottles in Retail Packaging #87061 , the water level won't reach the top of the small-volume container if you've filled the reservoir to optimize for the larger one. This means milk fat which sticks to the top sides of a thin tube won't melt, as it would in a steam heater. Two solutions:a) Buy some inexpensive bead bracelets to toss in with the small tube. They make up some volume so water comes up higher. If they're teething bracelets, it kills two birds with one stone. If they're cute and you'll wear them, same deal.b) Freeze the tubes upside down so the fat is at the bottom when you put it in the warmer.3. I thought I'd heat baby food in this too, but now when my kid (8.5 months old) is hungry he doesn't care if his food is hot or cold as long as you or he keeps shoveling it into his mouth. So I've used it for about 6 months.If you're seduced by Comotomo bottles as well, you're spending a pretty penny on the perfect (if you consider pumping perfect) breastmilk solution, but with an 8.5 month old I now realize that money is a drop in the bucket. :) I will pass the whole kaboodle along to a friend; that's the benefit of high quality.

We have been using this for overnight feedings . Works really well. I do wish it could heat up faster but overall it does its job. You can place a whole bottle in the slot or just the bag. When it's rubbing it almost sounds like a cooking timer.