bottles in fridge?

[vict17]

As a general rule I thought you don't put food in the fridge until it has cooled down to room temperature at least. So when I make up ds's bottles we leave them out for about 40 minutes until putting them in the fridge. But Penelope Leach says "Cool made-up milk quickly, preferably by putting it into
the body of the fridge while it is still hot". So should I be putting the bottles straight into the frdige after preparing them?

[Coddylicious]

MIne were always made up prteey cool

think it s bad to put hot things into fridge

[Fio2]

I used to stand mine in a washing up bowl of cold water until they were cool/room temp and then put them in the fridge

[Coddylicious]

but I woul dleave the kettle to cool anyway as I always for got what I was doing!

[Fio2]

know the feeling cods

[kalex]

I used to put mine ain a bowl of cold water, and let them sit for twenty mins, and then put them in the fridge.

They also say, not to store in the door of the fridge! Which I always did and never has a problem

[Furball]

I used to leave just the water in the bottle to cool then add the milk powder when required.

[acnebride]

I usually bung mine straight in the fridge hot but am uneasily aware while doing it that i think it's the wrong thing to do. Sometimes I leave them to stand and feel better for it. Saw in somebody's post in another thread recently that someone never put them in the fridge at all. Will ask my MIL who's a retired microbiologist what is the best course of action.

[Coddylicious]

heehe

ds2 wasbottle fed and it became dh's job after a while

do any of you make up a big jug and then decant?

[kalex]

Fio 2

You beat me to it

[vict17]

Thanks everyone - Penelope must be wrong then

[Joffy]

I think you don't put hot things in the fridge because it warms up the other things already in there. It doesn't do any harm to the milk to cool it down that way, it's just the food in your fridge which it might affect. I wouldn't worry about it.

[KateandtheGirls]

Also the reason you shouldn't put them on the door of the fridge is that that is the warmest part of the fridge. Same reason you shouldn't store eggs on the door of the fridge.

[Mermaid2]

Always leave mine to cool right down.

[bunnyrabbit]

same as Fio and Kalex

[NomDePlume]

I always used to leave the water in the bottles and then come back to them in 40 or so mins to add the powder and put them in the fridge.

[WideWebWitch]

I stick mine straight in the fridge whether it's just boiled water or cooled.

[popsycal]

same as nomdeplume

[OldieMum]

I got round all this by filling dd's bottles with boiled water, allowing them to cool, and then storing measured quantities of powder in an Avent powder dispenser. I would then put the powder into the bottles just before a feed. This eliminated the need for refrigerating the bottles and meant that the feeds were always made with fresh milk.

[inkstigmata]

I have a routine of my own going for this:

• fill & boil kettle at about 5pm when dd1 is eating tea and dd2 is having a small ff
  
• wash out dd2's bottle and start steriliser sometime before 5.30 with 6 bottles in it
  
• tidyup time, "Blues Clues" time (dd1), bathtime and bedtime
  
• make six ff's at 7pm with cooled kettle water and freshly sterilised bottles and put straight in fridge
  
  (contents of steriliser are said to be good for at least 3 hours if you don't open it up)
  
  Oh and I use the door of the fridge - sorry but it's just screaming "put bottles in me" at long as it's 5-10 degrees C that's OK I think

[busybee123]

I boil the kettle about 5pm, wash and sterilise the bottles then make them up at 6pm. I fill a bowl with cold water and stand the bottles in in for about 5-10 minutes to cool them quickly. (warm milk is perfect bacteria breeding ground) Then I put them in the main body of the fridge. Appartently you are not supposed to put them in the door as it isn't as cool as in the main body of the fridge, cos its opened and closed all the time. I was also told that you can keep a bottle at room temperature for upto 3 hours providing the baby hasn't had any out of it, or upto an hour if they have.

[Beccarollover]

I do the avent container thing too - much prefer it as the milk is made fresh each time and dead easy for going out.

[vict17]

Thanks for all your replies - I might invest in one of those avent containers then. We're going to a wedding on Saturday and we're going to take sterlised bottles and use those small cartons of ready made SMA Gold. But the bottles will only be sterilised for 3 hours and we'll be out all day. As long as they've got their caps on will they be okay?

[dejags]

I made up a jug of water in the morning and decanted into bottles once cool. When travelling I would just pop however many bottles of cool boiled water I was likely to need into a bag and used the avent powder dispenser when I needed to make up a bottle.

Sometimes if I knew that DS would need a feed in less than 1.5 hours I would put the boiling water directly into the bottle pop it into my bag and then when he was ready to feed the water would be the perfect temp to add the powder to.

Such a lot of faffing these bottles ...... I so wish I could breastfeed

[CountessDracula]

I find the best thing was to make up the bottles, run a sink of cold water and put them in that. They cool in no time. Then take out and put in fridge.

[KateandtheGirls]

Vict, in the US no-one sterilises bottles anyway, so IMO that would be fine. Just washing them either in the dishwasher, or in hot soapy water, is OK.

(Although my parents never quite believed that I didn't need to sterilise bottles. I'm not sure what terrible fate they thought was going to befall my daughters.)