Am I being unreasonable /silly for my idea of a nighttime formula-making method?

[Bubsworth]

I guess AIBU (or possibly silly?) to consider this method to make formula tonight? The main thing I want to know is, is this method safe or would the water not be sterile anymore?

If I boiled the kettle in the evening and pour it into small sterilised containers and left to cool down before putting the lid on. Then put the formula powder into a bottle ready. Then took it to the bedroom. Would I be able to use that (room temperature, but sterile) water in the night/early hours to make a bottle up? Would it be safe to do so?

Backstory I fully intended to BF, baby born with condition that means I had to bottle feed but I was completely unprepared, never made a bottle in my life. After EPing for 3 months I switched to formula and from day one of formula have been using a Tommy Tippee bottle maker machine, so I have no knowledge of making formula the good 'old fashioned way'! I don't know the 'rules' for sterilising the water or how long it's sterile for, etc, etc.

Also moved house recently to a VERY old cottage... I would like to be able to NOT have to venture downstairs in the night alone!!!

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And a flask of hot water to warm up your bottle. Like the tomee tippee flask. That helped warm up the premade bottles

I used to make bottles up for the day in the morning and for the night in the evening then give them to the kids at room temperature.

I just bought a second hand perfect prep for upstairs aswell.
Took all the components out, cleaned them in sterilising fluid and ran the prep through its own clean cycle.
I got 2 second hand, one for downstairs, one for up. Both together were cheaper than one new.

I just went downstairs 🤷‍♀️

For everyone who can't cope with the insanely loud perfect prep beeping in the night check out the YouTube videos for how to disable to noise. It's a wire in the back of the machine that can be pulled out, it's very easy to do and can be soldered back in if you ever want the beeping back. Saved my sanity during night feeds!

It's a life and parenting fail if you can't even do that with something so important/risky

This! Surely don’t look for a shortcut if it might put your baby at risk??

This was the correct preparation method at the time 2008/2009.
I used to take powder out in a tub with compartments and do same on a day out.
Neither ever had any bad tummy infections or any health problems. I do wonder if this method has been suggested to put people off bottle feeding?
As far as I know the correct advice on the formula tins hasn't changed and I first made a bottle up for my baby cousin in 1989.
It was the same when I had my first in 2000 and still the same when I had my fourth in 2012 and more recently for nephews and nieces born in the last couple of years.

I'm just glad my baby days are behind me. Was so easy to sterilise the bottles, fill with hot water, put lid on and leave to cool on the side for up to 24 hours (6 feeds for the day done at the same time) and then take powder out with me in the sectioned pot. Then add it to the cooled water, shake and feed at room temperature. Made days out and nursery bottle supply simple.

Don't envy all those with babies now and the new advice for bottle making!

This! Surely don’t look for a shortcut if it might put your baby at risk??

I think this is pretty unfair. No one follows all of the best practice all of the time - we all make compromises. I only started ff-ing at 8 months so it was fewer bottles a day and a more regular pattern, and I found it pretty difficult and impractical to do it the right way all the time. I honestly don't know how you can follow the guidance on making bottles and the guidance on feeding newborns on demand without just having a baby who's screaming for food while you make their bottle for half the day.

only started ff-ing at 8 months so it was fewer bottles a day and a more regular pattern

But at 8 months, you don’t need to sterilise etc do you?
I know we all cut corners - most of the time I totally get it because parenting is hard work but not ones that might put your baby at risk.

We all cut corners at times and probably no need for sterilisation for older babies. I would just do it as you are supposed to for younger babies tho. It’s difficult to know what causes a particular episode of tummy upset but why risk it.

Hi, I haven't read the thread but we made our bottles up so boiled water, put in formula, shook, cooled, refridgerated and then used for bed time, in night, first thing. Would warm a bit to take chill off but honestly, training your child to take cold milk ( not teeny weeny baby, obvs) was very very handy. They are now big, strapping adults so all was fine.

We all cut corners at times

Not with formula. Some of the prep methods here aren't "cutting corners" (that would be, say, extending a used bottle's life by a few min, or time saving hacks like a hot water flask at the bedside that still keeps the formula mix step at 70c or above).…. It's more Russia roulette. One unlucky batch of formula prepared incorrectly with a 25-50 % fatality rate for some bacteria?
That's not cutting corners, that's needlessly risking your babies life, especially tiny/young/prems who are so affected by when it is poorly prepared.

The guidance hasn’t changed recently. My sister is 30 and my mum knew to use boiling water when she was a baby!

Yes it has , your Mum will have used cooled boiled water.

MyDcAreMarvel in the name of research I just asked my mum. She’s a HCP and I’m 34. She said the official advice was to make it up with boiling water but people cut corners and did it with cooled boiled water.
Much like today then.

That’s very odd because in 1998 when I had my first child the official advise was cooled boiled water. Unless they changed advice then reverted back to freshly boiled.

Aaaaaand my mum gave me boiled cows milk...which is also totally irrelevant....

The explosion in smart phone technology really is rather recent I'm afraid, this information wasnt at your fingertips 24/7. I am also not aware that anyone has retained a package of vintage formula.

What is very clear is that if this is now a known thing, it should be screamed out by the NHS and manufacturers. But it won't be. Because thou must breastfeed.

Easy to blame a new mum when clearly everyone has been told by others how to prepare formula and more than 50% are doing it wrong.

So either it should have a massive warning on the tin (not seen a recent one personally as kids now older) or it should be publicised widely.