Making up formula for use ivernight, do any of you ladies do this?

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I have a six week old DS who is FF. Obviously the current guidelines say not to make up and store formula, but it is working ouit very expensive to use the cartons for nighttime. Equally impractical to expect him to wait 20/30 mins for me to make up a fresh bottle from scratch when he wakes in the night!

With DS1 I always made and stored a few bottles in the fridge, DS was always perfectly healthy, no upset tummy etc.

Do any of you ladies do this, if so do you wait for the bottle to cool a bit before putting it in fridge or straight in? Have you encountered any problems?

Thanks

I measure out volume of hot into the bottle to be used, add powder, shake, measure out remaining volume of cooled-boiled into another bottle and add to the first bottle to ensure the correct total volume of water is added. If not you may end up up to a half oz short because the formula powder increases the volume of the water, so if you add for example 9oz worth of powder to 4.5oz water it often brings the volume closer to 5oz. Topping up to only 9oz would give you a mote concentrated mixture than desired so you need to make sure you add the full 4.5oz remaining.

floozietwozie the reason you were told to "make up the bottles by boiling kettle, leaving water to cool for half hour then adding formula and feeding" is because 30mins is roughly how long it takes a litre of water to cool to 70 degrees i.e. hot enough to kill the bacteria but not so hot it kills the nutrients in the milk.

You were advised to make the formula to the correct guidelines i.e. make sure the water is no lower than 70 degrees, it just wasn't explained to you why you were leaving the water to cool for 30 mins.

Yes, before I go to bed I make up 2 bottles and store in the fridge. Use one for when DD wakes in the night and one for the first feed in the morning.

During the day I make as required. When out and about I use the ready made cartons.