Feed Day or Night with No Probs! (Lindam Night & Day Feeding System)

Member Name: Groovee

Product:	Lindam Night & Day Feeding System
Date:	16/06/04 (1324 review reads)
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Advantages: Convenient to have beside the bed

Disadvantages: Noisy when the warmer is heating up.

Just after I had Murray I started expressing some milk to allow daddy to help with the feeds and let me get some sleep as having 2 children under 3 was very tiring with very little sleep, with having to breast feed all night long. The first few nights when Murray wakened he would scream while hubby was down stairs getting the expressed bottle out of the fridge and heating it up. By that time I had just latched Murray on and breast fed him. After a while I gradually started introducing to formula to try and get him to go longer between feeds and give me a break as I was at breaking point. Hubby was happy for this but he was fed up going downstairs, switching the kettle on and waiting for the bottle to get the chill off it. So he decided enough was enough and off he went and came back with a Lindam Day and Night Feeder.

Costing £29.99 from Mothercare. This day and night feeder came with a fairly large base. We had to clear a good chunk of the chest of drawers to allow plenty room for it. It is roughly 15cm by 15 cm. The base is while and it has a large rectangle at the back of the base. You Then slot the bottle holder in. The bottle holder holds 2 tall bottles and the ice pack no problems. It also can double as a carrier during the day if you are going out and want to keep the bottles cool. I found with my wideneck bottles that it did take a bit of work to get both bottles in but they do fit with quite a bit of jiggying. It also comes with a ice pack which you place in the freezer during the day and at night we would put it in with the 2 bottles and take upstairs. Our only complaint with the icepack was that if you forgot to take it to the freezer you were stuck especially as we have a freezer in the garage which makes things harder to remember when on your own. The ice pack keeps cold for around 8 hours which worked in well with us
taking it up between 10.30 and 11pm.

The front part on the left contains a light which to be quite truthfully was blimming useless. It was orange and didn't give off much light and it was easier to put on the nightlight which we had. The front part on the right contains a bottle warmer. This one doesn't work like the one we had downstairs. With this one, you get a little holder which reminded me of contact lenses holders which I saw friends using in the states. It was like 2 round circles with lids that popped on top. You fill these with water and depending on if you need a 4oz bottle or a 7oz bottle heated you either use 1 for 4oz or the 2 for a 7oz. The unfortunate thing was that the plastic which held the lids on broke very easily and we ended up guessing roughly how much water we should use. But the bottle warmer is metallic at the bottom and has a basket in there which is used when using tall bottles or you can remove for widenecked bottles. You place the water into the warmer area and click the switch and depending on how much water you place in it took 4 or 7 minutes to heat. This was one major problem we found was that it got very noisy like a noisy kettle boiling water which would end up wakening the whole household. Especially in the dead of the night it can be very infuriating to waken up to this! The warmer automatically switches off when the water has evaporated. There is no way to switch it off before this. I also found you had to catch the bottle being heated to the correct temperature otherwise it would end up far too hot and then it was off to the bathroom to cool it down again! After a while we learned to time the bottle to the correct temperature.

The System over all is very easy to clean and I used wipes and once a week cleaned out the bottle warmer part. I did find it collected a lot of dust over a week in our bedroom, but baby wipes
make it simple and easier to clean. It was a worthy investment although it was only used for 12 weeks when Murray started sleeping 9 hours a night. It still looks like new and when my Sister in Law has her baby in December she is more than likely to borrow this, so my money's worth will be gotten out of it. The idea of the system is great if especially like us you have a big flight of stairs and a walk through the downstairs to reach the kitchen as it saves time getting a feed to a hungry baby. My friend invested in this for her baby for all day use and kept it in their kitchen as they are all on one floor. If you are finding night times tough or plan to bottle feed this is worth looking at investing in for when baby arrives.

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