To set up a feeding station in nursery?

[BunnytheFriendlyDragon]

I am doing my baby's room and it occurred to me I could keep the steriliser, bottles and formula upstairs so that I don't need to go downstairs to get milk in the night. Baby's room is next to our bedroom.

I combi feed so it would mean I could express and put it in the fridge upstairs if I got a mini fridge and then get bottles from the steriliser.

Has anyone else done this or is it just really lazy? As I write this post I'm thinking it is not that much trouble to go downstairs for milk...

I would do it tbh. With DD I expressed a lot as she had issues latching and a fridge upstairs would have been amazing!

I’d do it. I BFd but set up a snack station for me

I take up bottles filled with water and powder in one of those (Avent?) powder storage pot thingies. I’ve done it for years with more than 1 child. It eased a lot of stress.

Yep I did it. Ready made formula bottles as was nervous about storing milk bottles in fridge.

Not at all lazy!

Do whatever makes things easier. You really will appreciate not having to go downstairs in the middle of the night with a hungry baby.

How will you heat the bottles though? And what about hot water for the formula?

Sounds reasonable to me. I had the Perfect Prep set up in our bedroom for night feeds :)

I had a spare microwave that instead of selling, I set up in the bedroom so I didn’t have to go downstairs to warm the bottle up.

Do it

Why have to negotiate stairs, in the dark and sleep deprived when you don’t have to.win win. Go for it.

Buying a mini fridge suitable for baby milk seems a bit of an extreme step rather then just going downstairs. The temperature in many of them is just for keeping drinks cook and not low enough for baby milk. If you are getting out of bed and going into the next room for milk you may as well go downstairs.

When mine were on one night feed I took a carton and a bottle upstairs and just opened it when they woke. Newborn was different as I could only do that once then pour the remainder into a different bottle to put in the fridge.

Make it as easy as possible. Without any guilt whatsoever.
Only downer is fridge may hum and disturb baby

Who gives a shit if it’s ‘lazy’ 😆

Anything that makes your life easier

I just took my perfect prep machine upstairs each night. Don't know if you're getting one but it's probably cheaper than a fridge

We ha s two perfect prep machines, one up in the nursery and one downstairs. In the newborn days it was amazing not having to go down to get sorted.

Make your life as easy as possible. I used to keep a sterilised bootle, an unopened carton of ready made milk and clean scissors in an Avent insulated bag. I would leave it on the window ledge outside our bedroom door so that either dh or I could grab it quick for the night feed.

This was after dc were 6 months old and in own room of a night with baby monitors on.

I had a perfect prep in the nursery, and I used to take a thermos flask of tea up when I went to bed so I could have a brew without going downstairs

I sometimes filled the bathroom sink with cold water and stuck the expressed milk in there till morning when I couldn't face going downstairs!

Do whatever works for you & makes life easier!

My only thought is where would you wash them? If you don't have a big enough sink upstairs, you'd still be carting them around. I'd be inclined to do the washing and sterilising downstairs, and then just bring the sterilised bottles (closed up) upstairs before you go to bed. Or make them downstairs and bring up in a cool bag with ice pack to sit next to your bed. How will you warm them though?

Totally second the feeding station for you though. Dh used to bring me tea in a flask and a grazing plate of snacks before he went to bed every night.

We’ve always had the tommee tippee machine in the bedroom. Next to the bed. We co sleep so don’t have to move.

I’d rather pop upstairs in the day to make a bottle than stagger down in the night.

(Dh works from the bedroom in the day though so just pops one down if I shout).

You can leave freshly expressed breast milk (expressed into a clean container, that has a lid) out at room temperature for 6 hours. So if expressing in the night you can express into a clean bottle and it’s ready for the next feed, no warning required.

After the 6 hours of not used the milk can go into the fridge/feeezer.

Yup we did this. We had the perfwct prep up there and a mini fridge

We never went downstairs over night, I really think it helped baby establish day from night. I didn’t quite have a feeding station, I’d just premeasure the water into sterilised bottles and then measure the formula into little pots. I did this with both babies. Feed in very dimmed light and straight back into the Moses basket.

We had a mini fridge in the baby’s room, which happened to have a CD player in the front of it. It was a present from my grandmother (not for baby in particular) and was perfect - you could put a lullaby CD on during the evening feed.

I used to use ready made up bottles for this too.

I had a perfect prep machine for my second and it was set up in the nursery upstairs. It made things so much easier!

I BFd but set up a snack station for me

Yes! Snacks for mum are important when BFing!

I take up bottles filled with water and powder in one of those (Avent?) powder storage pot thingies.

I don't know what these are but I thought the water needed to be freshly boiled and then used with an hour.

How will you heat the bottles though? And what about hot water for the formula?

Thought I'd have a kettle as well...

The temperature in many of them is just for keeping drinks cook and not low enough for baby milk

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