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Babies powdered milk question
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some of it will depend on whether your baby drinks warm milk or not. Both my 2 (youngest is now 2) would only drink it freezing cold out of the fridge, which meant first thing in the morning we boiled the water and filled 8 bottles and then added milk powder as and when they were needed.Life is like a box of chocolates..........you always seem to pick the hard ones!0
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It was either my midwife or HV who said the same thing. They're not supposed to give advice on safe bottle feeding any more, only promote breast feeding. Which is utter nonsense and more likely to put babies health at risk than anything else.
Personally I did the same as Morglin - made up a day's worth of milk in one go. Never a problem, and that was as recently as 2006 and with DS who was five weeks early and very small. I was aware that the new advice was to make up a fresh bottle every time but quite frankly there was no way I was going to to that. I'd made up the bottles in advance for DD in 2003 and just carried on as I'd done before. Most people I know who'd bottle fed did the same. And I used to keep a couple of small cartons of ready made milk of the same type (aptamil) and took that and a sterile bottle if I was out and about.
Jxx
ditto, and like I say, my fridge was full to brimming as I had twins to feed!! And yes, every bottle was heated in the microwave!0 -
We did a lot of reading about this when our daughter was born as we just couldnt work out what to do. Everyone advises to do a different thing! In the end we decided on pouring all the bottles for the day and just mixing as we needed it. If daughter didnt finish her bottle we kept them for max two hours and chucked it. It worked for us as I could no way have managed to make up a bottle with freshly boiled water each time.
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mightymolly wrote: »ditto, and like I say, my fridge was full to brimming as I had twins to feed!! And yes, every bottle was heated in the microwave!
That's something I never did as my two were happy with the milk with the chill off rather than warm. But I know others who did it. I think as long as you know what you're doing then it's fine. But I think the nanny state just give a blanket "you mustn't do this" as advice to avoid comebacks when some dimwit doesn't know what they're doing!
JxxAnd it looks like we made it once again
Yes it looks like we made it to the end0
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