Bottle Feeding

daveyjp

6 bottles sterilised at once using a microwave system.

6 bottles filled with freshly boiled water and put in fridge until required.

Formula added then horror of horrors put in microwave for about 20 seconds. Shake well, test temp, feed.

Must have done 1,000 bottles like this and no disasters.

Janepig

daveyjp wrote: »

6 bottles sterilised at once using a microwave system.

6 bottles filled with freshly boiled water and put in fridge until required.

Formula added then horror of horrors put in microwave for about 20 seconds. Shake well, test temp, feed.

Must have done 1,000 bottles like this and no disasters.

Ye gods, someone call Social Services, quick!!! :rotfl:

Jxx

emlou2009

ah yes, the dreaded microwave!!

the same old school HV told me that they have to advise people not to micro formula because... some people didnt shake the bottle after heating!!!!!!!

susiesue_2

goodness me can't belive any one bothers with all this faff! breast feeding is cheaper and easier. this country has a real problem with it, people can be so unsupportive but i really don't understand why bottle feed. not being funny or a troll but i honestly do not understand why bottle feed.
i understand some women really CAN'T not won't do it but for goodness sake can anyone tell me why you put up with all this faff? it would have drove me nuts.

my ds was an emergency c-section weight of 9lb 6oz, i was on a drip and morphine and had compications after birth so i had a rotten time. his first feed was formula, which he took very well. i felt like he had been poisioned! i was very emoitional though. lol

blackcoffee

we bottle feed because we have a choice or in some cases we dont. I actually didnt find bottlefeeding at all a faff, you just have to find a routine that works! it does take a couple of days to sort yourself.

I like a few of my friends had most stress in letting my dh make up the bottles, I used to tip them away and then remake them! i just couldnt trust him!!! My friends and I giggle over that now !!

I honestly couldnt believe how things had changed from 2000 to 2006! My son wasnt born in the iron age but I felt he was with all the guideline changes.

Agutka

Bottles washed and sterilised and filled with freshly boiled water. Sealed and left on the side for the day. Microwaved when needed. I was known for giving son bag-temperature milk when out and about as cafes seemed to be only allowed to give you hot water to warm the bottle in and I had no patience for that. Neither did Joseph. It must be easier if you have a routine though.

Anyway, he's never been sick (colds, yes, tummy, no) and nothing can be worse than this week when he grabbed a forgotten glass of milk (hot weather) that was completely off and took a swig _pale_:eek:. His face was a picture. Worse than a lemon!

My_Fathers_Daughter

sooz wrote: »

I'm still breastfeeding the latest (& last) one, & not all too fussed about hygiene in general - after the first child standards slipped. Sometimes it's a washed boob, other times it's not..I shower once per day But on occasion I like to leave for my own sanity, & she then gets a bottle. If we've been too busy to pre-prepare water, the fridge with ice dispenser is a godsend. Sterilise bottle & boil water. Burn fingers fitting bottle together, & again putting hot water in. Put ice on fingers, & use other hand to put more ice into bowl, add cold water. Leave boiling bottle to sit in icy water for 1 min. Then add powder. Sit it in icy water for another 2 mins. Hope it's now not too cold, then aim at baby. But that's his job, I'm out

But buying a new fridge with ice dispenser is not very mse

Oh my - I am BF my 16 week old and I have never even dreamed of washing my boob other than my daily shower!!

All the latest reports are saying that all this washing and sterilising everything to within an inch of it's life is actually harming our kids!! I was given a leaflet at my local SureStart centre which proclaimed the headline 'Dirty Kids are Healthy Kids'.


Don't get me wrong - I am in no way promoting not sterilising bottles but once they have been through the steriliser I put them together (so they are airtight) and they don't go back in unless they get dirty (ie - they are used)


I would be interested to know if people sterilise dummies and teethers as religiously as they do bottles!!

Actually - I have destroyed a couple of teethers putting them in the steriliser so clearly it doesn't matter if a teething baby is picking up germs :rolleyes:



Having ranted it's Day 6 hun, it gets easier when things settle down, I promise you

tiamai_d

susiesue wrote: »

goodness me can't belive any one bothers with all this faff! breast feeding is cheaper and easier. this country has a real problem with it, people can be so unsupportive but i really don't understand why bottle feed. not being funny or a troll but i honestly do not understand why bottle feed.
i understand some women really CAN'T not won't do it but for goodness sake can anyone tell me why you put up with all this faff? it would have drove me nuts.

my ds was an emergency c-section weight of 9lb 6oz, i was on a drip and morphine and had compications after birth so i had a rotten time. his first feed was formula, which he took very well. i felt like he had been poisioned! i was very emoitional though. lol

Well first time it was because I was 'forced' to bottle feed DS1 after being so tired I asked to give him an expressed feed when he was 2 weeks old. First time mum still in hospital with a baby just out of special care I didn't argue when they returned 4 hours later with a bottle and stood to ensure I didn't try a breast feed again.

Second time a rather large overbearing nurse in NICU tried to get DS2 to 'stop messing about' by grabbing his head and my boob and sorta banging them together. I wasn't really in any fit state to argue back seeing as earlier that day I had been told that a week before when I had an emergency c section I should have died and then was left alone for a few hours for that little titbit to sink in. I walked back to my room and come next feed my body simpy refused to let him near me let alone breast feed.

So I put up with the faff, and poisened him with formula :rolleyes: I mean oh my god, how terrible a mother am I to have chosen to stop breast feeding huh? It's akin to beating him with a stick! Shock horror. You managed it so everyone else can, let me just get out my big plaque that says you totally rawk!

My_Fathers_Daughter

As an aside lil_p at 6 days you could probably still try to establish BF if you wanted to. Obviously, I don't know what happened but I was talking to someone the other day who didn't start to BF her son until day 17.


susiesue - I am sorry but your comments are not helpful and are quite upsetting. Why would you say something like that to someone who gave birth 6 days ago??? You clearly understand that this is an emotive issue, there is no need to be so mean.

sooz

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Oh my - I am BF my 16 week old and I have never even dreamed of washing my boob other than my daily shower!!

I was joking

however, standards have slipped here in general. I love the idea I read in american baby book when I was still all bumpy with DS1- keep a soft plastic rake in the living room. & at the end of the day, s*d tidying away toys, just rake them all into a hidden corner of the room I also only iron the sleeves & front of clothes