New advice dept of health-storing formula milk(baby bottles)

Crispy_Ambulance

BTW essexhoney - no-one can stop you from having a homebirth - the hospital is obliged to send a midwife if you are birthing at home. And no-one can stop you from leaving hospital if you want to. It is your body, your baby and your decision!

shariatlanta

I work in the maternity unit at my local hospital and we have a series of photos up showing mums how to make up feeds and not to make them in advance, as plenty of others have said i made up mine for 24 hours and then heated them as needed, after all can you imagine going through the process at 2 in the morning when all you want to do is sleep, so on the quiet I tell mums to do what's easiest for them and yes it is a way of pushing breast feeding, thats the bane of my job and a whole other story.

shariatlanta

essexhoney, such a shame your not giving birth at my hospital, we tell mums we don't supply formula but there is a stock available in emegencies plus we have a milk room where you can make up feeds yourself and we provide disposable bottles

essexhoney

Crispy_Ambulance wrote:

BTW essexhoney - no-one can stop you from having a homebirth - the hospital is obliged to send a midwife if you are birthing at home. And no-one can stop you from leaving hospital if you want to. It is your body, your baby and your decision!

il bare that in mind thank you the main reaosn they said no when i had my daughter was because i live on the 15th floor of a tower block of flats although there are 2 lifts here and i have always known at least one of them to be working they say it is because if anything was to go wrong and they needed to get me out of here in an emergency and the lifts werent working then id be stuck i cant see how it would be any different to any other emergency situation though.

tbh i can see me leaving the hospital well before they are due to discharge us i hate hospitals at the best of times and this just makes me hate them even more :mad:

SammyD_2

OOOH dont like the bit about the stitching...

I think the issue about the formula milk relates to a study that was done in 2004 which found that a bug called E sakazakii was in many batches of formula milk. This causes severe gut infections and meningitis. The study was in the Lancet and the funder of the research was Nestle. Since then, it was recommended to minimise time between preparation and feeding, but no doubt it has taken a while for the advice to filter down...

Don't get me started on the lack of support for breastfeeding either...if you are lucky enough to have a baby to whom it comes naturally - brilliant. But if your baby is like either of mine were then the system is woefully inadequate, as are many of the individuals within it.