To find this unhygienic?

[TeenyTinyToria]

Recently, I've seen a number of mothers go into public toilets, fill up a baby's bottle with hot water from the sink, add milk powder, and feed the baby. AIB totally U to find this disgusting and unhygienic, and think there must surely be a better alternative?

Isn't it actually quite dangerous?
I've never used formula but I understand that the water has to be boiled at a certain temperature to get rid of bacteria before making bottles?

urgh urgh urgh, hot water is NOT drinking water, it does not come from the same place as cold (usually) and even so I doubt public toilet cold water is safe to drink anyway as they usually have signs up, or an actual drinking water tap. Yuk

Unless hot water comes from a combi boiler, it's not potable, ie you can't drink without boiling first.

EEWww! yuck!

cannot see anytime my DCs would be so desperate for a bottle that I'd do this rather than go to the nearest cafe/tescos/wherever and ask or even pay for a pot of boiled water

That's terrible! YANBU

People really do this? Really??

ya sooooooooo nbu

i can't believe you have seen more than one person do this?

dont most people bring their own water from home, like bring the bottles with the water in rather than empty..
this sounds very weird, i cant imagine people doing this it is extremely unhygenic

One woman in the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow, and two women on separate occasions in Stirling train station public toilets. I don't even like going in the train station toilets for their intended purpose, they're manky. There is a coffee shop on the station. sick face required

FFS their babies will either end up with digestions like galvanised iron dustbins - or, er, not very well at all.

Ewww. I read recently that it's not even necessary to heat formula - as long as you stir it well, baby doesn't really need heated formula.

I've seen the hot water tanks in private houses. One had a (long) dead bird floating in it that had squeezed in. Ick. But particularly ick if you make up a baby's bottle from that.

ok..thats officially Nasty

Yucky yuck yuck, if i was going out i would get the little cartons that i could empty straight into the bottle.

Littlereddragon, I cannot believe that is the case at all, as powder is not sterile and needs water at 70c to kill any bugs in it. Where did you see that?

And at the thought of making a bottle from a hot tap in a public loo. I wouldn't drink that water. Wonder if the mum would.....

YANBU. That is quite disgusting. And I say that as someone who inwardly makes a cat's bum face just when my friends add formula to cooled boiled water.

Oh that is revolting!

I bet their babies are shitting through the eye of a needle!

is it right that you can;t now make up bottles in advance,keep in fridge and if you go out carry one around with you? or could you never???
the temperature has to be constant?
or something?

I used to make up bottles of formula and cart them around in a coolbag, admittedly (DS came to no harm) until I discovered those little cartons of ready-mixed. Though I remember one hysterical long afternoon of going into about 6 different chemists in a desperate hunt for those disposable sterilized bottles in the right age range as had not brought enough with me... ended up buying Milton tablets and panicking some more, and being patted nicely on the head by a friend who said, look, next time, rinse your bottles out with a lot of boiling water and your baby won't come to any harm... so I do think that sometimes we can all be a bit too inclined to paranoia over sterilising. But that really is a Bad Idea.

Ew. They're either really uneducated, or don't give a f lying f lump!
I would have told them about the dead bird floating in our hot water tank, plus the inevitable forms of parasite.
I would avoid disclosing what was found in my parents' storage tank..unless I happened to see them at it again!

There is a Boots in Buchanan Galleries, so even if a parent was caught short with no milk for the baby, there's no reason to do this.

Eyesdown...Basically the advice has changed.

Formula powder is not sterile and may contain bugs that could (in rare circs) cause terrible illnesses

The only way to be able to kill the bugs in the powder is to make them up with water that is at approx 70c (or more), This is the temp that a kettle of water, after boiling, half an hour later, has reached.

Thefore (as much of a pita it is) you should make up bottles as you go along.

I would reccomennd having a few cartons in for the times your lo can wait for the kettle to cool!

ps we used to let the kettle cool 10 mins, make up the bottle and then plunge into a jug of water and ice to get to feeding temp

OMG this sounds like a recipe for legionaires disease, gastroenteritis and such like!!! so terrible. When my babies had a rare bottle, (I usually made them just in case while out for the day), it was always with a sterilised bottle made with freshly bolied water to which I later added the milk powder, even the container I used to carry the powder in I sterilised first. The bottles I made at home came straight from the steriliser. I realise I probably sound a bit over the top, but I would not take a chance at not using sterilised bottles untill they were at least a year old, and could handle the bugs better. You are defo NBU

"...cartons in for the times your lo can wait for the kettle to cool!"

Can't!! That's what I meant (typing in semi darkeness apols!)

bolied HA HA HA what a typo!!!

Babies need germs, let them have them, they survive.