The Yoomi!!! **Review Post

Namastè!

I hope you've had a wonderful holiday and are experiencing copious amounts of peace and love. My team just own the Iron Bowl  (Roll Tide!) so I am pleased as punch.

I'm so excited to share my Yoomi Feeding System experience with you!  Before I jump in. I want to say an extra special thank you to Liva, who not not only got this out to me quick as a flash, but included a lovely handwritten note as well! She made herself available to answer all my questions about the system and has been a pure joy to work with as I prepared my review and gathered info for my HoliTAYÈ Showcase.

Discolsure: This post is sponsored, but the opinions and experience detailed herein are mine and mine alone.

I have been so chuffed about this bottle since I first found it online, y'all! Baby Namastè likes his milkies warm, and since he hates bottles anyway we have a whole process getting his milkies ready if he isn't feeding straight from the b'reservoirs. It takes about 15 minutes to slowly warm his milkies. Usually we are able to get it done before he gets too agitated, but there are many bottle sessions that end in me nursing him because he doesn't like to wait.

Alas, Hubby Namastè likes feeding the baby too.

I looked into bottle warmers a couple times but never really cottoned to the idea much. When I saw the Yoomi, I was immediately interested. It's a self warming bottle! It could maintain a perfect temperature for breast milk, for up to an hour.

So imagine my excitement to actually receive it. (You can get yours here and if you type BEINGAMUMMY for your coupon code, you will receive 15% off your order at checkout.)

Now...the Yoomi is rather unassuming when you take it out of the package. It's a clear bottle with a yellow collar. It holds 8 ounces. It doesn't look much diferent than our other nursery bottle--until you pick it up. It's noticeably heavier than other bottles because right there, tucked in the nipple, is the warmer.

The warmer looks like an egg. A little egg with surface grooves and an orange button. (It is red until it's warmed.)

The egg sits inside a little rocket ship for microwaving.

Brass tacks!

The Yoomi can be used without the warmer...but where's the fun in that?!

I read over both sets of instructions and decided to try the microwave method. I was doing this around snee time (nap for the new readers), so I had about two hours to work. I followed these steps:

Once the bottle warmer was ready for use, I pushed the button. It's important to note, once you press that button it will turn blue. Then you flip the bottle and baby can begin feeding. The milkies will flow down over the grooves, warming as they go.

Nifty little addition: Printed inside the instruction leaflet is a little calendar. If you mark down the date of first use, and tick off a box for each use, you will know easily when it is time to replace your warmer. They are good for 300 uses. 

Baby Namastè, oh hater of bottles he be, took to it quickly. I suspect the warmth reminded him of his favorite "bottle" of all.

I love this bottle. I believe, tedium aside, it will be perfect for traveling! The weather has finally turned. Baby Namastè staunchly refuses cold milkies, so this will be lovely to have on hand during our seasonal road trips. I'm gonna get some additional warmers to charge up and rotate, and in a couple weeks I'll get to put this futuristic bottle to another big test--Road Trip with Baby Namastè!

I have a demo video going up over on our Facebook, where you can see my bloopers and blessings as I assemble and feed Baby Namastè from the Yoomi for the first time. (Initially we just tried the bottle without warmer--today he had the whole shebang.) The video is prerecorded in segments, then edited together. I wanted to show the process, but the charge setup takes over an hour.

I hope you enjoy!

Namastè!

-- Tayè K. ♡