No More Falling Over the Cat at 2am! (Lindam Night & Day Feeding System)

Member Name: Lucille

Product:	Lindam Night & Day Feeding System
Date:	12/04/02 (374 review reads)
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Advantages: Don't need to go to the kitchen to collect the feeds, Warms the milk quickly and safely

Disadvantages: Need to check that bottle will fit into cooler, Need to be organised with bottles

I had my second baby at the beginning of February. As my eldest daughter is now 3 ½ years there have been a few 'baby' things I have had to get use to again. One of these is night feeds. I am not a night person, I need my sleep, so being woken up in the early hours is not good! It was hard enough when I was breast feeding her, but now I have changed to bottles it was very hard indeed. Getting up, going downstairs, getting the bottle, warming it, coming back up, not a lot of fun! Also I have two cats whose idea of an early morning game is to lie very still in the kitchen doorway in the hope that Mummy will be so tired she won't see them, and fall over them! (I did this twice when night feeding my first daughter, once ending up with a grazed knee, and once with a sore back after falling). But, I have found the solution, and it is the 'Lindam Night & Day Feeding System'. This is a bottle warmer with a built in cooler. It has made my night times much easier, and less painful!

The feeding system is very easy to use. Before you go to bed you take the freezer block, which has been chilling all day, and fit it into the centre of the bottle cooler. You then fit a bottle of milk on either side of the block. Put the lid on and the milk will stay fridge cold for at least 8 hours. You also need to fill two small pots with water. When the baby needs a feed during the night you simply remove the bottle from the cooler, pour one of the pots of water into the warmer, put the bottle in the warmer and switch it on. The bottle is then warmed by steam. How long it takes depends on how much milk is in the bottle. At the moment my daughter takes 5oz of milk, and that takes about 5 minutes to warm. This may seem like a while, but by the time I have got her out of the cot and changed her nappy the bottle is usually ready. The warmer steams for 7 minutes, so in theory it should warm up to a 7oz bottle. If the feed is bigger than that you may have to put in on aga
in, but I'm hoping that she stops night feeds before we reach that point.

The feeding system also has a built in nightlight. I don't actually see the point of this, and very rarely use it. It's very dim indeed. I know that is the point of a nightlight, but it's so dim it doesn't actually light anything! I've put a nightlight bulb into my bedside lamp, and that works much better. The cooler section itself has a handle and is detachable, so if you want you can use it as a bottle carrier during the day.

The only maintenance you have to do with the feeding system is to clean it once a week. It is recommended that you wipe out the bottle warmer part with a weak solution of vinegar, just to stop any limescale forming.

The one real disadvantage to the system is you do have to check the bottle size to make sure they will fit into the cooler. I have 3 small squat Mothercare bottles that will not fit in, they are too wide, but I also have 2 wide neck Maws bottles which fit fine.

You do have to be organised during the day to use the feeding system at night. The cool block has to be in the freezer all day to be cold enough, and the bottles have to have been chilled in the fridge for 3 hours before they are put into cooler. But this is just a case of thinking ahead, and of course you have the bonus of knowing you have a less disturbed night if you do.

If you are bottle feeding a baby during the night I would strongly recommend the Lindam feeding system. Since we have brought one we have had a happy Mummy who is getting more sleep and a happy baby who is getting her milk quicker. In fact the only unhappy ones are the cats who aren't been treated to sight of Mummy flying across the kitchen at night!

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