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When my wife Andrea and I told our friends and family we were pregnant and planning to give birth to our son Leo where we live in Oaxaca, Mexico, they gifted us all the things they thought we\u2019d need to survive having a newborn. One of the fanciest gifts was an automatic formula preparer sold by a well-known brand.\n<\/p>\n
Even though it dispenses into each bottle precisely the right amount of formula and water, it doesn\u2019t blend it together. Every two hours, like clockwork, we\u2019d find ourselves standing in our kitchen, bleary-eyed and exhausted, struggling with a clumpy bottle.\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n One morning, somewhere between the hours of 1 and 3 a.m., desperate for a solution to the dreaded lumps, I suddenly remembered our Milk Boss handheld milk frother. It was a gift from the same friends who had given us the formula machine, and, realizing that formula is basically just milk, I popped the frother into Leo\u2019s bottle and was thrilled to discover it blitzed away our problem. In moments, I had a nice, smooth bottle of formula for my hangry baby.\n<\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Adobe Stock<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n Now we carry this small, lightweight, and inexpensive kitchen tool everywhere. We\u2019ve prepared bottles with it in parks and restaurants, in our car, and even on airplanes. It\u2019s so compact that it easily fits into a small pocket in our diaper bag, and the two AA batteries that power it last a surprisingly long time. While we own a Milk Boss, any brand of frother in this style will do.\n<\/p>\n Not everyone was immediately impressed with my newfound parenting hack. Our nanny Liz, who comes from coastal Oaxaca, looked at me as I prepared a bottle one morning and said dryly in Spanish, \u201cYou know, in Mexico we just shake the bottle.\u201d\n<\/p>\n And yeah, I\u2019ll sheepishly admit, she has a point. You don\u2019t need<\/em> a milk frother to prepare a bottle of formula for your baby. But a day or two later, I spied her using it to make one of Leo\u2019s bottles with a skeptical look on her face, and now, two months later, not a day goes by that she doesn\u2019t use it herself.\n<\/p>\n To learn more about our approach to product recommendations, see HERE.<\/em><\/sub>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Parent #Affordable #Kitchen #Tool #GameChanger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my wife Andrea and I told our friends and family we were pregnant and planning to give birth to our son Leo where we live in Oaxaca, Mexico, they gifted us all the things they thought we\u2019d need to survive having a newborn. One of the fanciest gifts was an automatic formula preparer sold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[985,412,215,984,974],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner","tag-affordable","tag-gamechanger","tag-kitchen","tag-parent","tag-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} How a Cheap Milk Frother Instantly Made Life Easier <\/span> <\/h2>\n
\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n We Take It Everywhere We Go <\/span> <\/h2>\n