Litre bottles of readytodrink formula!

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I can't believe I didn't know these were now available! I need to work out how much more they cost than faffing with mixing up powder and hot watet, but omg at bloody last.

formula companies! Finally they are taking responsibility for manufacturing a sterile and safe product rather than making parents deal with the stress and difficulty of making sure milk is made up safely.

Now, DS almost 8mo is shifting from 5 bottles a day to 4 of about 250ml each so these will be perfect. I assume they need to be ditched after 24hrs like the little cartons.

No give them a bit of brandy before bed, they sleep through then

You could wedge the sausage roll in the zip of his sleeping bag so he can munch on it in his sleep

You did give your DC a drag on the Benson & Hedges too, I hope Tango? Good to get them started young and toughen up their lungs.

I find they choke less on the smoke once they get to 9 months and develop the pincer grip so they can hold the fag themselves

Oh yes you need to pratice the pincer grip, then you can get them to start rolling their own.

Napacab thanks for the info about te development of formula, interesting stuff. I get annoyed that formula is made using powder as I said in my OP, just feels like a step the manufacturers have hung on to as it puts the onus for preparing it safely on the consumer, saving them from being sued due to all the bugs they have in the dry formula

My oh and his 11 siblings were raised on condensed milk.
Never did them any harm.
Oh hang on..wait..
Yeah it did. They all have chronic gut problems.

I discovered cartons of milk when DS2 arrived. I was making up 1oz bottles because that was all he could manage. I was sending bottles on contact visits and they were being wasted. Birth mum didn't feed him. It was costing me a fortune.
The Sma cartons saved my sanity and a good few quid (we couldn't get milk tokens and she would buy him milk)
Bloody brilliant

When I had the dcs 4&5 I bf but as soon as they were on the bottle, cartons were my luxury of choice.

Wouldn't buy him milk

I imagine that selling formula primarily as powder is a lot to do with transport costs as much as anything else. Say a 900g tub of powder lasts a week - that's 25 x 8oz bottles. That's a much bigger weight and volume to transport. And there is no point in sterilising dry formula, because it would only last until you opened it, just like the sterile ready-made stuff liquid stuff in bottles is only sterile until you open it.

LMAO at the pincer grip, priceless :o

I have to say though that DD always preferred formula that I had made up myself to the cartoned stuff, wonder why that is?

When she gets to 12 months I will be moving to cows milk, crusha milkshake :o

mrs DV I was also a bit at condensed milk being part of the make at home formula ingredient list.

I think the cartons have fish oil in them, but the powder doesn't

FFS don't you read the labels

I am thinking of giving Aptamil 1 litre size a go as DS has all of a sudden upped his milk intake (he will be 17 weeks this Sunday). As lots of people have already mentioned I hate faffing around with the powdered stuff. Plus I have a feeling that my DS prefers little cartons. In any case, to me, stuff in cartons doesn't smell as fouls as the stuff you make up from the powder.

As for 1789's comments/suggestions, I won't even bother....

Surely the stuff in cartons will be heat treated, so is the formula equivalent of long life milk, and so it'll taste a bit different, like fresh milk and UHT?

I thought the powered stuff looked a bit nicer, my health visitor said the cartons were smoother though. Dunno!

Before cartons you could get ready made up glass bottles. We had them at hospital for emergencies (I worked in a&e)
The babies loved em.
They were a sure fire way of weaning a reluctant baby to a bottle.

They seemed to be really creamy. They were very expensive though so not very accessible.

No idea Bike. Balkan - Cow and Gate is miles cheaper than Aptamil in the 1l bottle size, dunno why. I've used Aptamil powder since birth with DS with occasional cartons, and the occasional carton of a different brand he hasn't batted an eyelid. A HV once told me all the formula brands are pretty much identical, just marketed differently. It's so strict what they have to have in them (unless you believe 1789 ) that it really doesn't vary at all. I pay tw difference for Aptamil cos I is middle class. But it's loads more expensive in liquid form and C+G is the cheapest, check Tesco online < >

you can get starter packs from the supermarket with pre-made glass bottles and sterile one use teats - I think sma and cow and gate do them

tango I didn't understand why the mil and SILs kept asking me if I had dd on Carnation yet
They took it personally that I didn't give it to her

at condensed milk - really?! As in, in place of breastmilk from birth? Yikes.

Aptamil and cow&gate are made by the same company

Oh ok, maybe they taste v similar then or DS just not fussy

you can still get the little ready made glass bottles of forumla, katie price used them apparently!

the powder formula also contains fish oils as well now, i am a bit miffed actually as i bought the hipp organic one partly as it was organic and also as it was vegetarian, this seemed slightly better for a little baby. it is now no longer vegetarian, i am not too fussed as we arent vegetarians but ihave friends who are and who wanted their baby to have vegetarian formula an di dont think any other companies make one that is suitable for veggies.

oh and of my two that ended up bottle fed one would drink the cartons but the other refused i am not sure why asthe ingredients are the same, but for some reason dd never liked them. but then she was always a fussy madame with her milk anyway!

mrsdevere i looked on your profile the other day, for some reason previously it hasnt let me when i tried, GORGEOUS children!!!

I use Hipp organic, found the smell of aptimil really off putting it was like rotten eggs whereas hipp doesn't smell bad at all :) plus its cheapest though if SMA have their new bottles on offer I buy those too.

Aptamil and Cow and Gate are exactly the same. A girl at work (who used to work for the parent company Milupa) told me this once and I went and spent hours in the supermarket comparing their ingredients and nutritional values. Identical. Then scoured their websites. Very, very similar. Then switched and saved my self £2-3 carton. DD has never noticed.

yep hipp is cheaper, and i do feel slightly better that its organic (rolls eyes)