AIBU about making up formula at night?

[Chocolateorangegoblin]

A friend of mine told me she boils the kettle, waits 30 minutes for it to cool etc before making a bottle all while her Dd is screaming to be fed during the night.
AIBU to think that's madness?! Surely most people don't do that?!
Obviously a lot of people have perfect prep machines now but that still involves getting out of bed etc.
I make up bottles in advance, cool them and keep them in the fridge and then at bedtime I take one to bed in a cool bag and DS drinks it whenever he wakes up. I am obviously a lazy sod but there's no way I would be standing about waiting for water to cool down at 2am!

Excellent post Toomuch

Just like to add.One of mine ended up in Scbu from dehydration and weight loss due to breast feeding,another narrowly escaped. Believe me making up bottles of food they thrived on was not a faff but a god send.

When my kids were little everyone made up 24 hrs worth of bottles once a day and sto red them in the fridge. At night you took 1 up to bed with you and a flask of boiling water.

I really cannot remember any child ever being ill - might be a small possibility but not large enough to worry about.

Modern health advice is normally very over cautious and refuted a few years down the line.

I constantly see posts that bemused me on here - modern parents seem to like making life hard for themselves.

I sterilise a bottle, and another bottle with a lid. In the lid bottle I put 4oz of boiling water and leave to cool.
In the night I boil the kettle when I hear lo start to stir, pour 3oz in the empty bottle, add my 7oz of formula to this and dissolve it, then pour in the 4oz of cooled water. Makes it just the right temperature for her to drink :)

Sundance I don't think parents are trying to make life hard for themselves, but I think it's very hard to have the confidence to go against the official advice when it's your first. I lied to the HV about how I was doing the milk and how we were doing naps (alone in their cots from about 4 months onwards, you're supposed to always be in the room with them till 6 months because of cot death risk). I couldn't see any way to make their recommendations work but I didn't have the energy to defend my decisions either.

Disinfect your fridge every day if you cool bottles in there !
I've heard it all now.

/Expressed BM/BF/SMA in cartons. We tried one tin and my husband fell apart when I popped out for a hair cut. I warned him to make it up 20 min before he needed it (when DS was feeding every 2 hours early on) and to let it cool but he knew better :)

My mum would make up 24 hours worth and keep iut in the fridge - I survived but wouldn't do it myself

The advise isn't to wait 30mins, it's to wait not longer than 30mins. Any longer than 30mins and the temperature is too low to kill the bacteria. So you can use boiling water and cool it under a running tap.

Fed both of mine with formula made 24 hours in advance stored at the back of the fridge. I would have a flask of hot water and would take the edge of the cold of the bottle by immersing it in hot water for 30seconds or so. Both children fed happily, neither ever got gastroenteritis

I BF one and FF the other. I found FF so much easier. I wasn't faffing about though.

The water has to be at least 70° when it's mixed with formula powder to kill most of the bacteria that is in powdered formula. Powdered formula isn't sterile, and should be made as it's needed. Boiling then cooling the water and keeping it begirevadding the powder, or making up feeds in advance provide bacteria with a perfect breeding environment.

It costs the NHS £35 million a year to treat artificially fed babies with gastroenteritis.

I used to make a flask of hot water up and use that to make a bottle adding bottle water to cool it down to the right temp.

Thank god mine were bf
I cant imagine faffing about like this

It's not a faff anymore than changing nappies umpteen times a day or BF when you can't,or constantly cuddling and soothing them. ALL parenting is a faff if you think about it.

Make up the bottles as instructed,store in the back of the fridge. Thats it.

First child I did that. Second child I made it cold and microwaved it. Third child I bought a microwave for the bedroom and used ready made.

And yes I know that is not the advice...

And this is why I bf!! I am too lazy to be faffing like that whenever she wanted a feed

No need to sterilise or wait, I have milk on tap whenever bubs wants it and at the right temperature too.

My daughter is 3 at the end of April, and she was 11 weeks early because of my pre eclampsia. When she was in special baby care, we were careful to ask the nurses' advice about what was recommended. Making up batch bottles wasn't advised by the WHO because of the bacteria that can potentially start to develop after a certain number of hours. Their advice about boiling the kettle and giving it 20 minutes to cool down was a bit of a faff as well. We did all the sterilising of things carefully, and also came across a bottle prepping machine that not only sterilised the bottle before making it up, but also made it up to the correct temperature as well. This proved to be a godsend, because there's always going to be some ball ache about getting up at 3 am to do a bottle when you're knackered. It was a 5 minute job, and I knew that when she got her bottle, it would be just right for her.

I did exactly this. My two children wouldn't take cold milk and my youngest was cup fed (for the first 6 weeks) every 30 minutea to an hour. . So no sleep for me for around 17 weeks. But I always boiled and let cool to make a bottle. Well that was until I had a zip tap and then that made my life so so so much easier easier.

To be honest I think NHS advice such as this (which seeks to move be towards absolutely zero risk) totally fails to consider the impact on parents. I'd be willing to bet that mums who follow HP advice to the letter are much more likely to suffer from pnd.

Yet another reason to be glad my children never had formula. What a lot of work to give your child a second rate artificial breast milk substitute. c.f. Baby wakes, put it to your breast. Perfect nutrition, perfect temperature, how much simpler can it be?

If the UN told me the sky was blue, I would look out the window. Their instructions are meant for people living in virtual cowsheds full of flies, not reasonably sanitary nice homes.

Now that the risks to young children are very small, we obsess about every marginal improvement. Chinese formula and milk handling in general is notoriously bad. Expats pay premiums for formula made in Australia or New Zealand.

Remember that the UN brought cholera to Haiti.

Sigh. Fuck off Esspee

How much simpler could it be? - what. a. wanker.