[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I will give the reasons I have knocked a star off first. Firstly, it took an hour to set up, not sure if this is standard but with weighing, cleaning it etc and figuring it out that’s how long it took. If you buy this I would suggest buying and setting it up before baby arrives 🤣 however, it is very very simple to use and you only need to press three buttons for your bottle and it remembers how many oz from the previous time you used it. secondly, we got this when our baby was 11 weeks old. So we have been using cooled boiled water, a hot shot from a kettle and doing it manually for the last 11 weeks. I would say that the prep machine doesn’t make it quicker.
The reasons I will give it 4 stars, is that it is very clever in terms of how it weighs out the formula, how it has an app that you can change the temperature on and how it cleans itself which I am very happy with. I am surprised at the temperature of the bottles as we have been doing the manual way and using cooled boiler water does make the bottles quite cool so we are surprised that even on a ‘cooler’ water setting that the temperature is still quite hot, but this could be us setting up a longer hot shot than usual maybe, we will have to figure this and play about with it. It is easier than manual bottles especially when you have a hungry screaming baby in one arm and making a bottle with another. We are going to keep this upstairs and use it at night for easiness and do manual bottles in the day. I also know that these machines are frowned upon with the nhs so i am thinking that i may just use it for the hot shot/formula as this will be sterile. My husband does assure me that the ‘cooled boiled water’ is filtered which makes it sterile and you can clean the pipes. It is a very clever machine and is also a lot lighter in weight than i thought and the box was sturdy that it came in, and able to recycle the packaging.
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