Cooled boiled water for formula

iceicebaby

My 9 and a half month old son has his bottles made in advance and stired in the fridge until required AND sleeps on his front.

daska

Which proves what? That he's luckier than my niece and has met his developmental milestone for rolling over?

iceicebaby

Proves nothing...was just saying.......(where's the rolling eye smiley)

Ravenlady_2

Look bad things happen and what can make one baby ill is not a reason to snipe at other parents because they're way doesn't follow the new advice given out, salmonella is luckily very rare in babies and until parents encounter a reason to change their ways they wont.

If PP's babies are happy and healthy there should be no reason for them to change how they make bottles, everyone has their babies health at the top of their priorities and as long as bottles are sterilised correctly that's already cut the chances of getting ill.

Leaving water to cool before adding milk is very backwards info as salmonella can live in the powder and needs to be added to hot water.

Winky,_The_House_Elf

The water needs to be 70 degrees plus when it comes into contact with the actual powder in order to sterilise it. So cooling boiled water in advance is wrong.

My 13 month old daughter still has a bottle first thing. To speed it up I add the powder then add half boiling water, which I believe would kill off any salmonella etc and top it it up with cold water so its a drinkable tempreture.

My logic is that I am killing any nasties off, and she can drink tap water at her age, can anyone see any problems with that?

iceicebaby

Ravenlady wrote: »

Look bad things happen and what can make one baby ill is not a reason to snipe at other parents because they're way doesn't follow the new advice given out, salmonella is luckily very rare in babies and until parents encounter a reason to change their ways they wont.

If PP's babies are happy and healthy there should be no reason for them to change how they make bottles, everyone has their babies health at the top of their priorities and as long as bottles are sterilised correctly that's already cut the chances of getting ill.

Leaving water to cool before adding milk is very backwards info as salmonella can live in the powder and needs to be added to hot water.[/QUOT

I agree

meritaten

its not ridiculous to make up feeds as you need them. whats wrong with that? I do take exception with making up and storing feeds - the formula does 'go off'! and many new mums think formula lasts for days when it doesnt.

Ravenlady_2

meritaten wrote: »

its not ridiculous to make up feeds as you need them. whats wrong with that? I do take exception with making up and storing feeds - the formula does 'go off'! and many new mums think formula lasts for days when it doesnt.

Unless new mums have a fridge dedicated to bottles then you couldn't possibly fill a fridge with enough bottles to last a few days.

Breastmilk however is a different story, that can last for up to 3 days in a fridge.

Gillyx

Oh well :rotfl: seems advice from health professionals is all different, no wonder people get so confused.

Janepig

Problem is, as my midwife told me a while back, that with all the pro breast feeding stuff that's going on, they (and health visitors) are really not "allowed" to give advice on the correct (current) procedures for bottle feeding, which imo is a dangerous turn of events because I certainly know many many parents who could do with some help when it comes to understanding how to be hygienic at the very least. Certainly they should encourage breast feeding all they can, but once someone has decided they are going to bottle feed then they should be given help and advice as needed.

Between having DD and DS the advice did change that you should make up each bottle fresh, but as I'd only had DD just over two years before and made up each day's bottles in a batch with no ill effects, I decided to carry on as I'd done before. Worked for me.

Jx