REASONS TO BUY
Two bottles at once
Prep early
REASONS TO AVOID
Expensive
SLOW
Inadequate heating
No indicator
Babebay Review
Slow warmer that doesn't heat bottles well enough
Credit: Abriah Wofford
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Our Verdict
The Babebay is a water bath bottle warmer with the ability to heat two bottles at once. This bottle warmer is a multi-purpose product with the ability to heat food, and sterilize bottles in addition to warming bottles. Often when a product does multiple things, it does none of them well, and this is a great example. The Babebay proved to be virtually useless at warming bottles with a warming time of 47 minutes to reach the temperature the company thinks a bottle should be. It is worth noting that the ideal temp outlined by the manufacturer is the temperature where breastmilk begins to lose nutrients. This unit has no indication when it is done, leaving parents to guess and the instructions do not include descaling help leaving parents to flounder. Overall, we didn't see any redeeming qualities in this pretty but useless warmer.
Our Analysis and Test Results
Babebay tries to make the lives of parents and babies safer and easier. Their focus is to create products to satisfy parenting needs. The Babebay brand includes products for feeding, soothing, and monitoring.
Performance Comparison
The Babebay is a water bath bottle warmer with a dual bottle setup and digital interface.
Credit: Abriah Wofford
Health and Safety
The Babebay scored below the average in health and safety. It uses water bath technology as opposed to steam, which is somewhat safer because there is no risk for potential steam related scalding.
The Babebay did not perform well in our tests for health and safety in large part because it doesn't reach temperatures close to body temperature even after 12 minutes of warming time.
Credit: Abriah Wofford
If following the instructions for heating, this warmer never heats a bottle to body temperature and only reaches over 80F after 10:30 minutes. Even if you set the temperature as high as it will go, it still won't reach body temperature in up to 12 minutes. The instructions tell you to heat the bottle until 104F, which we didn't attain until 47 minutes.
The digital interface may seem useful, but the combination of multiple button pushes and dial make it challenging to figure out. The Celsius reading cannot be adjusted to Fahrenheit leaving those in the US finding conversations online to understand the readings.
Credit: Abriah Wofford
Ease of Use
The Babebay is significantly harder to use than the competition, which is why it earned the lowest score. This warmer's directions are likely not written by a native English speaker, and the bullets do not coincide with the list items, which is frustrating and could make understanding the instructions difficult. Luckily, the buttons are labeled and fairly intuitive. While you can adjust the goal temperature, it is highly unlikely you'll ever reach the goal temp outlined by the manufacturer or anything that might be dangerous.
The Babebay has an interior max fill line that is faint but easier to fill than other models with vials. The warmer does not provide any indication that warming is complete leaving parents to wonder when the bottle is done. While many warmers have an audible beep or a light indicator, this warmer has nothing. It does have a fancy cord storage system on the bottom, but we'd rather have cord excess than a warmer that doesn't heat contents adequately in a reasonable amount of time.
Whether you heat one or two bottles at a time, the Babebay is the last efficient warmer in the group with heating times over 40 minutes to reach body temperature.
Credit: Abriah Wofford
Warming Efficiency
The Babebay is, without a doubt, the slowest warmer in the group, failing to reach body temperature even after 47 minutes. As a result, it earned the lowest score possible on our ranking. It has several flaws, most of which center around warming functionality. First, it doesn't have any indicator to tell you when the heat cycle is over. There is no audible beep or light indicator or dial change, which leaves you guessing. The warmer is supposed to enter a “heat preservation” mode when the bottle reaches 104F. Not only is there no way to determine if this has happened, but when we followed the instructions, our bottle finally reached 104F after 47 minutes. Forty-seven minutes is far too long for a hungry baby to wait for food.
Temperature Testing
Before you give a bottle to your baby, you should swirl the contents and test them on your inner wrist. The skin on your wrist is sensitive, making it ideal at determining if the liquid in the bottle is too hot or too cold.
Before you give a bottle to your baby, you should swirl the contents and test them on your inner wrist. The skin on your wrist is sensitive, making it ideal at determining if the liquid in the bottle is too hot or too cold.
This warmer theoretically works with two bottles at the same time, making it an appealing option for parents of multiples. However, we caution you to stay away and look elsewhere as this warmer does not heat efficiently, and you'll be waiting far too long for two bottles to warm.
The Babebay has multiple parts to clean and the instructions lack information about descaling.
Credit: Abriah Wofford
Ease of Cleaning
The Babebay has some cleaning challenges, earning it a significantly low score in ease of cleaning. This unit comes with no cleaning instructions. It is the only warmer we have tested that doesn't include them. Does this mean it doesn't need cleaning? We suspect not. The only mention of cleaning includes using distilled, purified, or boiled water to avoid mineral buildup, but it doesn't tell you what you should do if build-up happens. We think it is irresponsible and short-sighted for Babebay to ignore the very real, almost guaranteed occurrence of scale build-up on their product. We believe a lack of routine cleaning and maintenance will result in a product that doesn't last.
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Juliet Spurrier, MD and Wendy Schmitz
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