It seems convenience has come to desperate parents of bottle-fed babies – but at a price.

A husband and wife team has invented the Yoomi – a baby bottle that heats milk to the temperature of breast milk in just 60 seconds - all at the touch of a button. The couple says their invention was born out of desperation with bottle-heating issues with their first child. They then road tested the product on their second child.

The bottle contains a heating unit at the top of the bottle, but below the teat. Once the warmer is charged and the bottle turned upside down, the milk flows around the outside of the unit, heating up before it reaches Baby’s mouth. The unit will stay warm for about an hour and can be recharged about 100 times. You can read more about the product and how it works at the Daily Mail’s website.

The self-heating bottle has won some innovation and research awards. And it’s great to see an invention like this reach the public domain. But it’s not cheap - £22 (about AUD$38) for the warmer and bottle, and £4.50 (AUD$8) for a pack of two teats. And I presume that after 100 recharges, you’ll have to pay for a whole new warmer. The Yoomi website doesn’t seem to explain if you can buy the warmer without having to buy another bottle.

Here at All About Baby, we have our eye on this innovative product but it’s not available here yet.

Cheers

Kate