The life of a new mom is nothing like the life of an ordinary human being. Overnight, rote daily activities like showering and brushing your teeth become elusive luxuries. You live somewhere on a spectrum between exhaustion and full-on nervous breakdown, constantly looking for ways to reclaim even a few minutes of free time.
This is why, when my baby was still in utero, a friend of mine declared that if I only bought one thing for my approaching motherhood, it needed to be the Baby Brezza Formula Pro. The countertop appliance is, to me, much more than a kitchen gadget. It’s a small wonder — something that makes a daily appearance on my nightly gratitude list. For many reasons, I decided to embrace formula feeding; the calorie content and consistency of ingredients helped my kid sleep longer and more soundly. But that perk comes with a downside: making formula manually is a tedious multi-step process that involves pots and thermometers and, inevitably, spilled powder. And it’s a process you’ll have to do eight to ten times a day.
The Baby Brezza looks kind of like a regular drip coffee pot, possibly from the 1990s. It works kind of similarly, too: an airtight canister on top houses the powdered formula, and a chamber on the side stores distilled water. You choose from five different serving sizes, press start, and within seconds, the Brezza has brewed a bottle of perfectly body temperature-warm formula for your little bundle. It’s like going from texting in T9 to texting on an iPhone. Because the hardware is compact and free of superfluous nozzles or buttons, cleaning it is just a matter of a quick wipe-down. At $179 (or $144 if you don’t mind buying it on Amazon without the instructions), it’s not a cheap device. But imagine it’s 3 a.m. You haven’t slept in days. You push a button, get expertly mixed formula, and don’t even really have to clean up. You avoid measuring, mixing, warming, waiting. You get ten extra minutes to sleep, and before you know it, this thing is paying for itself in sane waking hours.
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