Do you warm your babies bottles or use room temp water? why/why not?

[DANNIIM]

Room temp here too.

[Razzberry]

Thanks girls - very interesting as I thinking bout breast milk and its certainly not heated up! lol

[Eenee]

Not that I have bottle fed but especially a young baby I would heat it up as breastmilk is heated to about 37 degrees which is mums body temperature. Otherwise baby is taking energy to warm itself back up instead of digesting and putting that energy to good use. When the baby is older though room temperature would be ok.

[Rach75]

DS#1 we warmed the water at first in a cup of boiling water but then in micro added formula and off we went PIA!! it was
DS#2 room temp boiled water from word go no tummy problems happy as a lark, he is on cows milk now and only the last few nights with it being cold have we wamred the milk slightly

[Livinthedream]

Thanks girls - very interesting as I thinking bout breast milk and its certainly not heated up! lol

But it is!
We run our spa at 37 deg and it certainly is not room temp (its comfortably hot, really).
Body temp is really very warm.
Room temp water is probably only 15-20 deg.
I would think that feeding a very young baby(who cant regulate its own body temp) cold fluids would actually be a bad idea.
Why would you not want to heat it?

[hipmummy]

Thanks girls - very interesting as I thinking bout breast milk and its certainly not heated up! lol

Actually it is heated - 37 degrees at body temperature!

I used to warm them in the microwave. The danger with that though (and why the hospital doesn't recommend it) is because it doesn't heat evenly. I just made sure I would shake it really well before I gave it to them.

Mine were precious little bundles too that totally refused their bottle if it wasn't a "perfect temperature".