Question about making up formula please ?

[mamatomany]

I have to start uni in september so am trying to make the transition to formula as painless as possible for my boy and the one thing that bothers me a lot is him crying for a bottle.
So rather than heating up and cooling down bottles at nursery i thought i'd send in a carton every day for him they could just serve at room temperature.
However i've read something about bugs in formula needing to be killed by high temperatures, would drinking it straight for the carton be ok ?
If anyone can think of any other ideas that are better i'd appreciate it, I don't want to send expressed breast milk because it'll need refrigerating and can't stand to think of him crying whilst they heat it up.

Yes, you can use the formula milk straight from the carton - easy and convenient. It's sterile.

Honestly, though, he would be OK while they heated up BM - it only takes seconds!

As previous poster said, cartons are sterile and can be drunk straight away, at room temperature. The bugs thing is only to do with powdered formula, not the ready made cartons. But heating a bottle - of formula or EBM - only takes a minute so I really wouldn't be worried about your little boy getting upset.

It shouldn't be microwaved though should it EBM ?
I figured there will be a delay whilst they get themselves into gear anyway so just want it be as minimal as possible compared to shoving a boob in his mouth.

I heat my bottles (when using ready made formula at home) by standing them in a pan of hot water for no more than 5 minutes. This heats them nicely (although my son will also take them happily at room temperature when we're out). Are you worried about hot spots from the microwave? If so then EBM could also be heated like this. TBH there will always be some delay if feeding from a bottle rather than the breast as you need to prepare the bottle. But honestly a few minutes shouldn't be too much of a worry - he has everything going on at nursery to distract him!

Well I think the official advice is to not heat milk in a micro, but surely everyone does this after faffing around with the pans of water for a while??!! Providing you shake well afterwards and only whizz it for about 30 secs, it is not likely to have hotspots. Microwaving BM destroys some of its positive properties (I think antibodies, etc) but they are not in formula anyway. It doesn't render it actually harmful. How old is your boy?

EBM may be simpler to send because it does not need to be refridgerated due to the anti-infective proerties it has. It can be stored at room temperature for 12 hours after it has been expressed.

storage of breastmilk

Milk doesn't actually need to be heated - can be given at room temperature. If baby prefer it heated then EBM heats really quickly in a jug of hot water or run under hot tap.

they will have a bottle warmer and the bottle of EBM will be heated up really quickly.

Mears that is fantastic information thank you so much, that seems the answer then, I was going to try and come in at lunch time to breast feed, phew relief all round.

Thank you everyone who replied, he's only three months when he starts nursery, it's all a bit traumatic, mainly for me !