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Avent iQ Bottle Warmer - Great little gem
My wife and I love the fact that it takes the guessing out of the "is it warm enough, or too much". The key to this is choosing the right option for room temp, fridge, or frozen, since it determine how much heated steam to produce for the chosen amount of milk.

Poorly Designed
We got this warmer as many of our other baby products were Avent and we liked how those worked. Unfortunately, this warmer seems to have been designed by people without kids.

While the buttons are easy to understand they're not easy to use. Just to turn the unit on you need to hold a soft button for three seconds. You then select your bottle size and whether the bottle is cold, frozen or room temperature. Finally you need to engage the warmer holding a different button for another 3 seconds.

None of this is rocket science, but just imagine doing this unnecessarily long sequence when holding a crying baby - the unit is light and has recessed plastic-covered buttons that really require you to be eye level with the unit when turning it on.

So despite the unit theoretically being able to get the bottle warm in just 2 or 3 minutes, at this point your baby is screaming under one arm as you are squatting down to be eye level with the unit on the counter while trying to hold various buttons for 3 seconds.

To top this off it doesn't get the bottle warm using the scale on the warmer- selecting 2oz for a 2oz bottle will just result in a cold bottle. You have to do some mental math to figure out how to re-adjust the scale on the spot.

Finally, if the lid isn't on just right, the unit won't activate. So as your baby is now flipping out the warmer won't work despite the unit appearing to be fine.

Technically, it works. In practical terms running a bottle under hot water would be simpler, cheaper and faster.

Love it except why doesn't it remember your last setting?!
I like this warmer which I've used with wide bottles, both avent and playtex (up to 9 oz bottles). It seems to heat everything perfectly as long as you follow the directions and select the proper settings. I'm able to use it easily with one hand but I can see how it might slide for some people. It's easy to use; however, I cannot understand why you can't re-set the default settings. Or why it doesn't automatically remember your last setting. That feature would make it perfect. It's annoying to always be using the same setting but to have to press the buttons like 10 times to get there.

What a time saver!!
This bottle warmer saved us so much time, especially for middle-of-the-night feedings. It was taking so long to microwave water and then wait for the bottle to warm up that our baby would get so upset. With this warmer, we would start it up as soon as the baby woke up and by the time we finished changing his diaper the bottle was ready to go! I've found that we do have to set it for 2 more ounces than are actually in the bottle in order for it to be warm enough at the first beep (for refridgerated formula). And make sure that the rubber feet (and counter) are clean so that it doesn't slide when you try to push the buttons.

Not good for many reasons.
Reasons NOT to use this product:

1) It does not fit tall or wide bottles. It only works for tiny, skinny baby bottles.

2) It's NOT user friendly. I finally got the hang of it.. but it took my nanny and then my mother forever to remember the complicated directions to use it each time.. Not good because your baby will be screaming of hunger by the time you remember how to use it and it hasn't even started to warm yet.

3) The beeping sound wakes up the baby and seems to irritate him so you need to keep it out of the nursery

4) If you tend to the baby and don't take the bottle out IMMEDIATELY after it beeps - the milk will be scaldingly HOT. In which you have to throw it out and get another cold bottle.

5) When you are in a rush, you tend to over fill the water in the warmer. When you put the bottle in, it overflows all over.