Old formula milk - please advise

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lisalisa · 20/12/2011 21:59

Need some help please.....

Tonight when giving dd ( 13 months ) her bedtime milk I accidentally dropped it and retrieved it from the floor. Rolled under a curtain to the side of my rocking chair so fished it out. Left bottle on windowsill after dd finished and put her in her cot etc.

When I retrieved the bottle from the windowsill my foot touched something and I saw another bottle on the floor also under the curtain. Seems last night's bottle had been left on windowsill last night and fell on floor and rolled under curtain.

Now i am worried that when retrieving bottle and then feeding dd tonight I may have inadvertantly picked up last night's bottle - instead of the bottle I'd just dropped - and fed her from it. Only about 1oz as bottle was mainly finished but still...........

I know lesson to be learnt is not to leave bottles on floor (!) but apart from that presumably dd is not in any danger from having old milk other than tummy upset? Feel so bad for my little dd....... This is what comes of distrubed sleep.

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Gigondas · 20/12/2011 22:04

I would have thought bad tummy worst of it. Also wouldn't dd not have drunk it if too cold or tasted odd?

Gigondas · 20/12/2011 22:05

And before someone comes along with formula poisoning horror stories I would think that is a fairly remote risk.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 20/12/2011 22:07

What does the milk in the other bottle smell like? I doubt she would have drunk it if it was the old one. Maybe call Nhs direct if you are worried.

PenguinArmy · 20/12/2011 22:07

wouldn't one of the bottles smelt? Is there any left to do sniff tests on?

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lisalisa · 20/12/2011 22:10

They both had the same small amount left in which is probably why it didn't alert me to it. If one did smell it wasn't a bad or obvious smell as when opening them just now to wash them didn't notice anything.

Gigondas - dd likes cool milk not warm and both bottles felt the same really I noticed afterwards.

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RitaMorgan · 20/12/2011 22:11

Day old milk would have tasted disgusting, surely?

The risk from formula is quite small anyway, especially for a 13 month old. Was it powered milk or from a carton? I'd think about using cow's milk if I was you, seems safer to me.

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lisalisa · 20/12/2011 22:16

It was powdered milk. Been thinking about cow's milk now but how to wean ?> My other dcs all bf so never had these issues too much!!

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RitaMorgan · 20/12/2011 23:05

You could try a straight switch - if she's not keen then maybe mix formula and cow's, gradually increasing the proportion of cow's.

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