Fed baby a bottle out for 10 hours (11 months old)

[Belle82]

So although I didn’t do this, I am to blame for not telling my mum she couldn’t leave a bottle for longer than 2 hours. She made it about 8pm and fed it to him at 6am, (he had not drank any until 6am)

I am so worried but I know there is nothing I can do to change as it’s already happened.

He has just had an extremely stinky loose nappy (almost smells like vomit 😔)
i was hoping anyone with any experience might be able to give any advice on how bad it might get. 😔
My poor baby.

It'll just be a few nasty nappies while the bacteria passes through. I imagine if he was going tbe sick it would have been immediate.

Be fine!
Worse case, shits and vom, best case absolutely nothing will happen!

Either way, just carry on as usual until something does happen.

Stick a bit more barrier nappy cream on his bum if shits get worse, increase his fluids and offer him fluid filled snacks.

Will be one of many many tummy type things to come.

I used to worry about things like that. However, when your baby reaches toddler years, you'll realise old milk is the least of your worries. My daughter ate goose when she was 1.5 years old

I'm pretty sure 30 years (memory of when my sibling was born) ago people made up all their bottles for the day and saved them for later.

I used to do this all the time in the olden days. Make the bottles in the evening, take them to bed and feed them at room temperature during the night. I expect your mum did too.

It'll be fine. Had never even heard of the 2 hour rule when mine were that age 20 years ago.

Yeah he will be fine, not ideal but apart from a few stinky nappies won’t be any other issues

I don't follow this 2 hour rule, we take room temperature bottles up at night

Why don't you use sealed ready made bottles instead?

I would actually phone the gp for advice given the slinky nappies. There are some pretty nasty food bugs that can develop in the milk of left for a long time. At 11 months he should be fine though. My mil had dp 28 years ago and she would never have left the bottles like that (made them up the night before and kept them in the fridge). Neither would my mum. Idk why posters think that’s normal. If I ever fed ds his bottle at night and left the remaining contents on the side they’d be smelly by morning! It’s really not a good idea to suggest doing this is safe or normal.

On a hot summer day or if you have the heating blasting out overnight I might worry, otherwise I’m sure your baby will be fine.

Wouldn’t bother the GP at all for this.
Its perfectly ok to deal with it with common sense and home care.
Bit OTT to be honest.

Thank you all.
I love mumsnet, always brings me back to reality 😂

Was it kept in a fridge? We used to make all the bottles up at night for the next day.

You can still do this, it's on the NHS website as a safe way to prep formula as long as they are cooled down rapidly (ie in cold water), put in the fridge and used within 24 hours. The 2 hour rule applies to bottles at room temperature that have already started to be drunk from.

Fair enough! Glad I did something right 😂

Overnight at this time of year the temp is not high, milk will keep a while out of the fridge before going bad. I assume you made the formula correctly (eg using boiling water to ensure the powder was sterilised?)

The vomitty smelling nappy is classing teething at that age.

Me too. Probably not advisable in the hot summer though.

Because they are expensive...