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

[Anonymous]

When you arrive at daycare take the travel discs out of the bottles.
I used Dr Browns for my first and commuted on bus and Metro to daycare and never used the discs and never had a spill. I keep my 4 bottles in an insulated lunch bag.

[Anonymous]

I'm so confused. I have used the Dr. Brown bottle in the Dr. Brown bottle warmer and have never experienced explosion. I put the entire bottle in with the vent and round part and it's fine. Isn't there a timer? There is no need to watch. What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so confused. I have used the Dr. Brown bottle in the Dr. Brown bottle warmer and have never experienced explosion. I put the entire bottle in with the vent and round part and it's fine. Isn't there a timer? There is no need to watch. What am I missing?

This. I've been using dr browns glass bottles, old version and new wide version for 8 months. Why do you put in the extra internal cap? My bottles didn't even come with this piece?

[Anonymous]

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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.

NP, and this is what I do too. I hated those travel lids- like someone else wrote above, they leaked everywhere when we tried to use them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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...

I am not a daycare teacher, but I can only imagine the PITA that Dr. Brown's must be. They are the most stupid, leaky, fussy, irritating bottles. So now you have to unscrew the darn thing and remove the disc - ugh - who has time for this? OP, buy yourself some Tommy Tippy wide mouth bottles and liberate yourself from the madness.

[Anonymous]

Just have them run it under warm water instead. It's basically impossible to overheat and the bottle can stay intact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just have them run it under warm water instead. It's basically impossible to overheat and the bottle can stay intact.

That's such a waste of water. You would have to warm a cold bottle for a few minutes.

[Anonymous]

Our center fills a sink with warm water and lets them sit in it. Not wasteful, no explosions.

[Anonymous]

I was the PP who wrote that I keep all the parts in my Dr. Brown bottles. My center has a crockpot going all day I believe.. and that's what they use to warm up her milk.

[Anonymous]

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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."
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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.

I'm the PP you responded to, and to clarify, I never had a parent use a plastic lid. I've taken care of many babies, including my own, and never used any kind of travel cap. I've seen clear plastic caps that go over the nipple, but I've never seen anyone actually use those travel lids. I've seen them in stores, but I assumed they for when bottles of milk were frozen, and would be removed when the bottle was taken out of the freezer.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I'm the PP you responded to, and to clarify, I never had a parent use a plastic lid. I've taken care of many babies, including my own, and never used any kind of travel cap. I've seen clear plastic caps that go over the nipple, but I've never seen anyone actually use those travel lids. I've seen them in stores, but I assumed they for when bottles of milk were frozen, and would be removed when the bottle was taken out of the freezer.

The PP you responded to. As I mentioned, in our twins/multiples clubs we've seen a lot of the travel disks put into Dr. Brown's bottles. Without those, if the bottle falls over, or tips, the formula/BM drips out of the nipple, especially if you've move from #1 (slowest) to #2 or #3 nipples which have larger holes. I know many people don't use them, but many do. And it's true that if you put a full bottle into a bottle warmer or crock pot of water (used at 2 different daycares that we used), then it's not unusual to have the exploding bottle that the OP referred to. The solution was simple for us. At drop off, I just removed the travel disks from the bottles and put them in the lunchbag cooler that I used to transport the bottles, then put the bottles in the fridge. It took about 30-40 seconds to remove 6-8 travel lids from the bottles and drop them back into the cooler.

[Anonymous]

Instead of being upset, why don't you see what you can do to help the problem? I find that if you take the disc out, there are no leaks or explosions. You should be removing the disk once at daycare, not them. This is an added unnecessary step for them when babies are crying, wanting their bottle. It also runs the risk of the bottle being spilled. Take the disc out when you put it in the daycare fridge. Problem solved. That also allows you to release the air from being moved around

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our center fills a sink with warm water and lets them sit in it. Not wasteful, no explosions.

That's what I would do, but it's time to switch to formula when the child goes to daycare.