How do you make up bottles for night time feeds?

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I make up enough bottles with freshly boiled water & formula in the morning for that day. Then at night I makeup the next mornings formula and 2 bottles of water for the night, add formula to cooled water. This is cos I'm lazy and can't face going downstairs & heating up bottle during night. However after reading more I realise the formula isn't sterile so my night time practise isn't ideal. What do others do for night time bottles? Oh,& made up formula bottles are stored in fridge for 12-14 hours.

You mustnt add powder to cool water. Regardless of.anything else, the water must be at at least 70° when the powder hits it.

I also used to make up my feeds for the day and keep them in the fridge. I always served mine at room temp though - dd has never had a warm.bottle. At night, I would take two bottles out of the fridge and take them to bed with me. Served when needed. I realise most people wont advise doing this but it worked for us.

There are ready made cartons to just open and serve at night which would be the optimum.

Why must the water be 70 degrees when the water hits it? I have never heard that before.

I used to boil water every evening/morning and pour into as many bottles as I'd need that night/day. Then measure formula into one of those dispensers (which was straight out of dishwasher). Every time a feed came round, shake formula into bottle of cooled boiled water. Shake bottle. Feed baby.

The powder isnt sterile. Its mass produced and siphened into tins whicb havent been sterilised. So you sterilise the bottle, boil the water, leave it to cool then add unsterile powder.

Our water in the UK.doesnt need sterilising by boiling - the boiling is to.make the water hot enough to strrilise the powder.

Powdered formula can occasionally contain a bacterium called Cronobacterium sakazakii (formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii). This bug is able to survive in dried powder for several years. Using water above 70°C will kill the bacterium if it is present.

You then want to stick the lid on and cool the made-up formula as quickly as possible - we swirled ours in a few inches of water in the sink - only took a few minutes - and store in the fridge.

At feeding time, pop downstairs, grab bottle from fridge, swirl in a few inches of hot water in the sink to body temperature, dry off bottom of bottle, ready to go.

See www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/micro/pif_guidelines.pdf for official safety advice.

Thanks for tips. :)

I make up a max of 3 bottles with water that is more than 70 degrees then flash cool them with cold tap water. They go at the back of the fridge. I come downstairs and get one as needed.

Cartons are the faff free way of feeding at night but they are expensive.

I make up all the next day's bottles after DS goes to bed - they all go to the back of the fridge.

There is a FF faff free thread somewhere, but it's disappeared, will bump for you.