Formula warm or room temp?

[babygirlisla]

Hi there
My little girl is now just over 9 weeks and from day one I have been making bottles up in the morning adding the boiling water to correct oz and then leaving bottles on the side until she is hungry and just adding the formula and feeding straight away .... So she is having her milk at room temp.
As its been cold past couple of days I have been warming bottle up for feed and she has not really been having much of her bottle and being quite fussy/uncomfortable all day.
I tried her back on room temp for last feed and she drank the whole lot and then fell asleep.
Does anyone else always use room temp bottle and does baby get on better this way?
She must prefer it like this as this is what she is used to I guess .... Thought she might like it warmer on these cold days ... Obviously not!

Thanks x

OP -I've not actually answered your original question

DD would drink her bottles fairly cool. DS likes his to be hot. When it's at the point where I think it's a bit too warm if I drip some on my arm, then that's when he likes it best. I heat his bottles by standing them in a jug of hot water for a few minutes.

Hmm true.. I wouldn't add water to anything like that though.

Nothing thrives in your stomach - far too much hydrochloric (?) acid in there :p

If that were the case, and all the bacteria were killed in the stomach, surely no-one would need to boil the water or worry about cooking food properly, so this whole thread is academic?

Ha, very good point fliss!

Ok, so why can't babies under 6 months have tap water then?

Now that I do not know, very filling but no nutrition?

I think it is because tap water is not sterile and babies under 6 months are more susceptible to the bacteria in it than the rest of us.