Warm bottles or not??

pixelation

It is very important to prepare formula with powder correctly. You boil the kettle and let it cool to 70 degrees (about half an hour) then add the formula. This is not because the water is not sterile, but because the power is not sterile. This kills the dormant bacteria in the powder.
It is recommended (NHS and WHO) to use ready to drink formula for young or premie babies until their system is a bit more robust.

ailuro2

DD only had a bottle after I went back to work, she had been breastfed before this, so we used to warm the bottles up.
As she got older and transferred to formula she would happily take a bottle that was room temperature.

go_cat

I never warmed our sons milk - it was a tip my sister in law gave me. She said with my niece she had always warmed the milk, but then on one occasion when she couldn't she refused to take it.

So my son never ever had warm milk always room temp made up when needed ( water done beforehand ) and was never an issue as he didn't know anything else

ticklepenny_2

To be honest there is so much advice flying around about every aspect of everything child related the best tip I can pass on is do what you feel comfortable with.

With DD I boiled the kettle every time I made a feed, then within 3 months I was popping boiled water into bottles and in the fridge. I also used the microwave to reheat the water before I added formula. But again its what you feel comfortable with. My mum was the one to light the way for me by saying "if you have a big healthy baby you have to be less cautious than those with premature or unwell babies." Basically that was the rule she used with me and my brother, I was a healthy 9lb baby but my brother was 6lb and unwell. Again all advice will go back to the point of do what you feel comfortable with. Oh and remember for all the advice we have now 60 years ago almost none of it existed, but there are still people alive from back then lol :rotfl:

Bitsy_Beans

pixelation wrote: »

It is very important to prepare formula with powder correctly. You boil the kettle and let it cool to 70 degrees (about half an hour) then add the formula. This is not because the water is not sterile, but because the power is not sterile. This kills the dormant bacteria in the powder.
It is recommended (NHS and WHO) to use ready to drink formula for young or premie babies until their system is a bit more robust.

This is the current advice isn't it.
But what I never understood was how I was supposed to put a baby through such a long wait :eek: because don't they advise you make one feed at a time :eek:

I filled the bottles with water, added the powder and then heated it. My kids would never drink it at room temp.

katiepatie

Bitsy Beans, i wondered if the new advice was to put mothers off bottle feeding.

I bf ds1 and ds2, but dd1 was bottle fed from birth and i found it confusing because advice had really changed in the 15 years since having my first.

At first i boiled the water, cooled in cold water then added milk and fed her (this took the same time as to warm one straight from the fridge)
but after a couple of days i just made up all the bottles with just boiled water, allowed them to cool then added milk when i needed:o she never had any problems with room temp thankfully!
hth KP.

ment to say i just took the powdered milk and bottle of water to bed and mixed when i needed, it made life really simple lol

squashy

I hope you don't mind me asking, but is there a reason you wont be breastfeeding?

It's the single most important thing you can do for your baby. Formula really is inferior whereas breastmilk will give your baby really important protection against illness as it contains antibodies which formula doesn't (despite what they'd have you believe!). I only ask as I have FF and I honestly thought it was more or less the same, but I now realise that is far from true. I fully breastfed my third and just found it wonderful for us both.

It's also convenient, always at the right temperature, no waiting around for it, no fancy equipment is needed, oh and it's free :money:

daphne_descends

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Bea89

I think there has been a lot more testing recently on fomula , hence the new advice. Who chooses how we should make bottles? the fomula company or others? if anything i would think its the fomula company encouraging parents to use their ready made stuff which is what a friend of mine done because she found the instructions confusing.

M_A_R_I_E

I used to take a bottle of boiling water up to bed with me with the formula seperate. When baby woke in the night it was just a nice warm temp. Add the powder and you are ready to feed.

In my experience bottle warmers take FOREVER to warm a bottle from the fridge.

Bottle fed my first and second both completely different. In fridge with first, always had water boiled ready for 2nd and just added formula when needed.