8 baby feeding fails and how to avoid them

Let’s face it: parenting is messy, unpredictable, and full of learning moments (or, as we like to call them, mistakes we can laugh about later).

Feeding your baby is no exception. Here are eight baby feeding fails we’ve all made, and how one small gadget (spoiler alert: it’s the Safer Baby baby bottle thermometer) can save the day.

1. The Microwave Mishap

"It’s fine, I’ll just zap it for a minute..."

Result: lava on top, iceberg underneath. We have personally been here and it was all thanks to a non-rotating plate in the microwave.

2. The Guesswork Wrist Test

"Let me just drip a little on my wrist..."

Sorry to break it to you… Your wrist is not a thermometer. It’s a wrist.

3. The “Oops, I Forgot It” Bottle

Left milk out too long? We’ve all played “is this still okay?” roulette. It’s a tricky game to play, especially when you don’t want the contents of the bottle to go to waste.

4. The Middle-of-the-Night Temperature Panic

"Is this warm? Is it too warm? Should I taste it?" Yes, we have heard of mums and dads squirting milk direct into their mouths to test it… but you can’t possibly be doing that multiple times a day for months on end, right? Right?

5. The Bottle That Takes FOREVER

You warm it, test it, warm it more, cool it down…

If only there was a tool to tell you exactly when you’ve hit the sweet spot… (psst - we think we know of one).

6. The Cry-Cooldown Loop

Your baby shouts, you panic, you overheat the bottle, they shout more while you wait for it to cool.

Never a fun game for anyone involved.

7. The Bottle Reheat Remix

Heated it once. Baby didn’t want it. Now what? Your guess is as good as ours.

8. The Distracted Warm-Up

Multitasking during warming time = forgotten bottle and milk that's now too hot. Again, we have personally done this, not blaming our phones or anything but Tiktok certainly doesn’t help our case.

How to fix it

The Safer Baby bottle thermometer. It’s not just a thermometer, it’s your new parenting sidekick.

Fail-proof feeding starts here. It measures the total contents of the bottle to work out the temperature, and shows you a light to indicate when it’s ready.

Red = too hot.

Blue = too cold.

Green = just right!

There’s even a yellow warning light if the temperature is unsteady or rising, showing you it needs to equalise for safety purposes.

Because feeding time should be full of bonding, not battling.

Click here to shop the Safer Baby Bottle Thermometer