vent: day care keeps exploding breast milk in the bottle warmers

[Anonymous]

Are you sending frozen milk? Why?

[Anonymous]

Not sending frozen milk. We can keep up to a month's supply of frozen milk as back up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sending frozen milk. We can keep up to a month's supply of frozen milk as back up.

Why would you need a month's supply for back up? I can't imagine a situation in which you'd need more than a day's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I decided to call and talk to the teachers. She said she even called the Dr. Brown's customer service. We problem solved and they are going to leave the bottles in the warmer a shorter time period or just run under warm water. She said the new teacher fully admitted that she didn't know about the interior lid/cap (It's a plastic circle) that goes over the interior under the nipple. I hope this solves the issue. If I were a first time mom I would lose it!

The first time you suspected she hadn't removed the cap, why didn't you say "oh yeah, there's a little kid you have to remove. I think they explode when you don't remove the cap."
?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I decided to call and talk to the teachers. She said she even called the Dr. Brown's customer service. We problem solved and they are going to leave the bottles in the warmer a shorter time period or just run under warm water. She said the new teacher fully admitted that she didn't know about the interior lid/cap (It's a plastic circle) that goes over the interior under the nipple. I hope this solves the issue. If I were a first time mom I would lose it!

The first time you suspected she hadn't removed the cap, why didn't you say "oh yeah, there's a little kid you have to remove. I think they explode when you don't remove the cap."
?

I understand how you can not know about the cap the first time, but as soon as they tried to feed the baby a bottle with a cap on, wouldn't they figure it out?

Having said that, as a parent and former daycare teacher, I've never seen someone send in a bottle with a cap on it and a nipple hiding the cap. I've seen It probably wouldn't occur to me the first time either.

I also think you need bigger bottles. I know when I taught daycare, spending an extra couple minutes away from the classroom to use the food prep sink to heat a bottle would have been problematic. And realistically, there will be moments when things happen unexpectedly (spit up, baby grabs another baby's hair, baby wakes up crying, diaper blow out), and you don't get to take a bottle at out exactly the right moment, so it's a degree or two too warm and you need to wait for it to cool, asking daycare to time it perfectly isn't realistic.

You'll need to switch to 8 oz bottles in a little while, so just make the switch now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I decided to call and talk to the teachers. She said she even called the Dr. Brown's customer service. We problem solved and they are going to leave the bottles in the warmer a shorter time period or just run under warm water. She said the new teacher fully admitted that she didn't know about the interior lid/cap (It's a plastic circle) that goes over the interior under the nipple. I hope this solves the issue. If I were a first time mom I would lose it!

The first time you suspected she hadn't removed the cap, why didn't you say "oh yeah, there's a little kid you have to remove. I think they explode when you don't remove the cap."
?

I understand how you can not know about the cap the first time, but as soon as they tried to feed the baby a bottle with a cap on, wouldn't they figure it out?

Having said that, as a parent and former daycare teacher, I've never seen someone send in a bottle with a cap on it and a nipple hiding the cap. I've seen It probably wouldn't occur to me the first time either.

I also think you need bigger bottles. I know when I taught daycare, spending an extra couple minutes away from the classroom to use the food prep sink to heat a bottle would have been problematic. And realistically, there will be moments when things happen unexpectedly (spit up, baby grabs another baby's hair, baby wakes up crying, diaper blow out), and you don't get to take a bottle at out exactly the right moment, so it's a degree or two too warm and you need to wait for it to cool, asking daycare to time it perfectly isn't realistic.

You'll need to switch to 8 oz bottles in a little while, so just make the switch now.

Not necessarily, a PP here and I never switched to bottles any larger than 4 oz. I've also never heard of bringing a bottle with a cap/lid on it and then the nipple on over the lid hiding the internal lid, but I didn't use Dr. Brown's. I used Medela bottles and brought them with caps/lids, then swapped the caps/lids for nipples when I got there. With 4 4-oz bottles it took very little time.

I can't imagine losing any breastmilk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I decided to call and talk to the teachers. She said she even called the Dr. Brown's customer service. We problem solved and they are going to leave the bottles in the warmer a shorter time period or just run under warm water. She said the new teacher fully admitted that she didn't know about the interior lid/cap (It's a plastic circle) that goes over the interior under the nipple. I hope this solves the issue. If I were a first time mom I would lose it!

The first time you suspected she hadn't removed the cap, why didn't you say "oh yeah, there's a little lid you have to remove. I think they explode when you don't remove the cap."?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I decided to call and talk to the teachers. She said she even called the Dr. Brown's customer service. We problem solved and they are going to leave the bottles in the warmer a shorter time period or just run under warm water. She said the new teacher fully admitted that she didn't know about the interior lid/cap (It's a plastic circle) that goes over the interior under the nipple. I hope this solves the issue. If I were a first time mom I would lose it!

The first time you suspected she hadn't removed the cap, why didn't you say "oh yeah, there's a little kid you have to remove. I think they explode when you don't remove the cap."
?

I understand how you can not know about the cap the first time, but as soon as they tried to feed the baby a bottle with a cap on, wouldn't they figure it out?

Having said that, as a parent and former daycare teacher, I've never seen someone send in a bottle with a cap on it and a nipple hiding the cap. I've seen It probably wouldn't occur to me the first time either.

I also think you need bigger bottles. I know when I taught daycare, spending an extra couple minutes away from the classroom to use the food prep sink to heat a bottle would have been problematic. And realistically, there will be moments when things happen unexpectedly (spit up, baby grabs another baby's hair, baby wakes up crying, diaper blow out), and you don't get to take a bottle at out exactly the right moment, so it's a degree or two too warm and you need to wait for it to cool, asking daycare to time it perfectly isn't realistic.

You'll need to switch to 8 oz bottles in a little while, so just make the switch now.

Not necessarily, a PP here and I never switched to bottles any larger than 4 oz. I've also never heard of bringing a bottle with a cap/lid on it and then the nipple on over the lid hiding the internal lid, but I didn't use Dr. Brown's. I used Medela bottles and brought them with caps/lids, then swapped the caps/lids for nipples when I got there. With 4 4-oz bottles it took very little time.

I can't imagine losing any breastmilk.

Were you sending 5 oz though? It sounds like OP has a younger baby, and is already feeding 5 oz. My kid never took a bottle bigger than 4 oz, so we never would have needed to switch, but OP's kid is obviously is a baby that drinks more at a time. In my experience it's very varied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I decided to call and talk to the teachers. She said she even called the Dr. Brown's customer service. We problem solved and they are going to leave the bottles in the warmer a shorter time period or just run under warm water. She said the new teacher fully admitted that she didn't know about the interior lid/cap (It's a plastic circle) that goes over the interior under the nipple. I hope this solves the issue. If I were a first time mom I would lose it!

The first time you suspected she hadn't removed the cap, why didn't you say "oh yeah, there's a little kid you have to remove. I think they explode when you don't remove the cap."
?

I understand how you can not know about the cap the first time, but as soon as they tried to feed the baby a bottle with a cap on, wouldn't they figure it out?

Having said that, as a parent and former daycare teacher, I've never seen someone send in a bottle with a cap on it and a nipple hiding the cap. I've seen It probably wouldn't occur to me the first time either.

I also think you need bigger bottles. I know when I taught daycare, spending an extra couple minutes away from the classroom to use the food prep sink to heat a bottle would have been problematic. And realistically, there will be moments when things happen unexpectedly (spit up, baby grabs another baby's hair, baby wakes up crying, diaper blow out), and you don't get to take a bottle at out exactly the right moment, so it's a degree or two too warm and you need to wait for it to cool, asking daycare to time it perfectly isn't realistic.

You'll need to switch to 8 oz bottles in a little while, so just make the switch now.

In our multiples club, this was common. If you don't do this (plastic lid, then put the nipple and ring back on top) then you need to take the nipples out and put the ring back on with the lid. But it's faster to put the plastic lid then have the nipple, ring and nipple cover all in one piece. You unscrew, pull of the lid, put the rest back on without having to take out the nipple, and put the lid in. Most of us were handling two bottles at a time and having both nipple and lid on at the same time was easier when you had limited hands and had to hold at least one baby at the same time.

[Anonymous]

I directed an infant program for years.

Ok, so here's the thing: Dr. Brown Bottles are a huge, huge, huge PITA. If you don't use the internal disk, they leak in the refrigerator and or travel bag if there is any jostling. If you don't remove the internal disk, they leak/explode when being heated up in the crock pot. I hate the darned bottles. But, yes, removing that disc solves all the problems, my infant teachers knew to do it (and taught me) but if they forgot to tell a sub...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The milk is leaking. It looks like they are being inattentive while warming up bottles in the warmer. I get it. They have 7 kids to watch. However, I think one of the teachers hasn't been removing the internal caps on Dr. Brown's bottles that prevent leaks when traveling/in a refrigerated tote. I have four ounces and there is plenty of room. It is below the fill line.

Why don't you just buy the regular bottle caps for Dr. Brown's bottles and send the nipples and other parts separately so they can put the bottle together after the milk is warmed? That's what i do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I decided to call and talk to the teachers. She said she even called the Dr. Brown's customer service. We problem solved and they are going to leave the bottles in the warmer a shorter time period or just run under warm water. She said the new teacher fully admitted that she didn't know about the interior lid/cap (It's a plastic circle) that goes over the interior under the nipple. I hope this solves the issue. If I were a first time mom I would lose it!

Why would you expect someone to know about that interior lid thing? If you have weird, complicated bottles, then you need to show people how to use them. Geez!

[Anonymous]

I still don't understand what OP means by exploding bottle. Her description made it sound like it was leaking out of the top, but then she said the whole 4 oz leaked out? I'm very confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The milk is leaking. It looks like they are being inattentive while warming up bottles in the warmer. I get it. They have 7 kids to watch. However, I think one of the teachers hasn't been removing the internal caps on Dr. Brown's bottles that prevent leaks when traveling/in a refrigerated tote. I have four ounces and there is plenty of room. It is below the fill line.

Why don't you just buy the regular bottle caps for Dr. Brown's bottles and send the nipples and other parts separately so they can put the bottle together after the milk is warmed? That's what i do.

These ones: https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Browns-Original-Replacement-Travel/dp/B0006BAJNG?th=1

[Anonymous]

I am a daycare owner and Dr. Browns bottle tend to be a problem if parents use interior cap/barrier. I totally
understand using them in transit but I have parents remove them at drop off. Needing to remove the disc during the day when things are busy just opens up too many ways to contaminate or spill the milk. The bottles have so many parts you need to keep sanitary removing the discs it becomes cumbersome. The system works fine. I used Dr. Browns myself with one of my children. We have never had a problem with an exploding bottle.