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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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! [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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