To think that Katie (or the queen) should make up formula following NHS guidelines

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Kate's decision to bottlefeed is a personal one. It is her decision how she feeds her baby. Like every mum in the land she deserves support and the freedom to make her own baby feeding decisions. However I feel its important that whoever is making up feeds does it safely and follows NHS guidelines.

There is no reason to make up feeds in batches or use the microwave to heat formula. The microwave can be used to sterilise the bottles, but not to heat up pre made feeds. It would be awful if princess Charolotte got burnt by hot spots of milk in the bottle or contracted gastrocentitis. They have a qualfied nanny who surely must be familiar with current recommendations.

NHS guidelines

Lots of mums with two children under two have to manage without paid help.

minifingers

there is no way on earth I could afford to feed my child solely on premade cartons of formula. I imagine the same can be said for many, many families.

This thread is so deliciously awkward.

Deleted? No, CLASSICS!

Not according to the WHO. They absolutely don't say it's 'perfectly safe'. Saying that it's 'safer' to make it up fresh implies that it's not 'perfectly' safe to keep it in the fridge for 24 hours.

Even if you make it up with very hot water, who's to know that it will ALWAYs kill off ALL of the bugs? And on the odd chance that it's not all killed off, you don't want to give it a chance to breed.

If batch making wasn't safe, if there was any sort of risk from serious illness or death from batch making, then surely the WHO would state 'it is not safe to store feeds', rather than give explicit instructions on how to do it, including how to travel with pre prepared feeds.

If we are talking about e-sakazakii, then either you kill it when you make the feed of you don't. If you do, then you don't need to worry about it. If you don't, then it doesn't matter if the milk is drunk straight away or after a few hours in the fridge - if it is present, it is harmful.

Could you link to any statistics about the number of babies who have died or become seriously ill from a bottle of milk that was made with clean water, in a sterilised bottle, heated to 70 degrees, cooled quickly and stored in the fridge for up to 24 hours?

Bless you op.

But it did make me laugh

You had me there for a minute, OP. I was thinking for a split-second 'wow that's insanely bad PR making her choice to bottle feed so public. The NCT will have a conniption!!' Then immediately realized it must be a spoof. Unless the entirety of the staff managing royal affairs had gone temporarily insane...

e-sakazakii

If you are going to mention species names, might as well do it properly.
It's E. sakazakii.
And officially now it's C. sakazakii, according to Wikipedia.

This thread is amazing.

Oh op, I know you are a regular poster but please do not be embarrassed, folks are laughing with you, not at you :)

I calculated that it cost £2k to feed DD1 on readymade formula for a year. DD2 is getting Perfect Prep milk .

Thank you thankyou thank you Op! I am smiling all the way from Australia! for you x

Very convincing lookalikes!

This was really funny. I so hope the Royal kids wear those shirts in real life. For funsies.

The OP is quite funny. I thought it was a joke until I read the rest of the thread.

Regarding whether or not it is safe to make batches, I suppose it depends on how good your aseptic technique is and on the age of your baby (e.g. a new born is very different to a six month old).

I don't know much about current advice but when my children were babies (now teenagers) it was considered acceptable to make batches. I never heard that this caused any problems.

Just asked for this to be deleted. They arent the real royal family.

that's the best follow up I've read on MN in a while.

Still laughing

"They aren't the real Royal Family"

Lmao!!

My gran apparently used to make the night-time bottle for my mum before going to bed and wrap it in a nappy to keep it warm until it was needed. Mum is still alive [caveat: I do not recommend this method, however much I wanted to in my sleep-deprived state when ds was a tiddler!)

I also think these mock ups are completely pointless and ridiculous (along like any Daily Fail article beginning 'We imagine...'), unlike this thread, lol! Let's hope OP is having a much needed sleep

Apart from anything else, which royal kitchen has B&Q white formica units do you think?

And there was no tupperware in sight. I heard the queen is a fan.

I think we've scared the OP away.

Oh poor op, I wish she'd come back. We've all had a good chuckle and it's not been mean spirited.
I'd also really like to know, in the two minutes between her first and last posts what tipped her off?