How are people warming expressed breast milk?

All the guidelines say to run under warm water but for me that takes awhile if the milk is coming from the fridge. Why cant we boil water and warm it that way?

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If left in boiling water it can become too hot so that may be why they don’t advise it? I personally warm in boiling to save time but always check the temperature

Tommee tippee sells a bottle warmer that you can heat bottles and pouches of breastmilk. It allows you to select warming from fridge temperature. It seemed to work well for us when I expressed. It also had an option to warm from frozen but I never used that setting as I defrosted it in the fridge overnight.

Putting milk in boiled hot water kills the nutrients in it, we just run the tap as hot as it gets and put into a Pyrex jug and leave a few minutes

I just fill my bowl with hot water from the tap, give it a shake to mix it up and move it around the bowl for a min and it’s fine and well mixed and warm for baby

I use a tommee tippee plugin bottles warmer but have to keep checking the temp even if I'd followed the instructions it still had a tendency to overheat it

Tommy tippee bottle warmer, I bought it with my first baby still using same one. I'm pretty much a pro now 🤣 i put the milk in whilst it's cold, turn it on, it does its first boil, I leave it then when it starts its second boil its the perfect temp so I turn it off and take it out :)

If you stick the plastic bag that the milk is in in a bowl of hot water and place a saucer over the bowl to keep the heat in, I find it warms up really quickly!

We have the Phillips advent bottle Warmer ☺️

How long do these bottle warmers take?
Wondering if it would be a time saver compared to hot water in a jug.
Thanks.

I sat bagged milk in hot but not boiling water to warm it up. I don’t care what guidelines say if it goes against common sense!

Good idea thanks

Babies can drink cool milk, it doesn't have to be warmed all the way up to body temperature, so running it under a warm tap to just warm up a little and take the chill off is plenty and shouldn't take more than a minute or two under a warm tap. Water used to warm shouldn't be more than 37 degrees as mentioned above any hotter destroys the nutrients.

Put in a jug of hot tap water x

I’ve been giving it in an open cup from the fridge/at room temp. Is that ok? 🤷‍♀️

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