Accidentally gave baby formula that may have been out of the fridge longer than 2 hours. Really worried!

[Gingerbreadpixie]

7-week old DS1 sometime fusses and falls asleep in the middle of feeds and they can take up to an hour from start to finish. But I am always careful to time how long the bottle has been out for.

This morning we had one of these fussy feeds so I put him in his crib as he will usually stir within 10 mins or so and I can carry on feeding. Well this morning, probably due to feeling quite tired and stressed by the time he finished his feed the bottle had been out for what I guess to be any time between an hour and 45 mins to around 2 hours. Will this give him a bad tummy? I'm really stressed I may have given him food poisoning and I'm so tired I can't tell if I'm being irrational or not :(

I feed him Aptamil ready made in the litre bottles, not powder, if that makes a difference? It says on the bottle discard within 2 hours but what if I went over 2 hours? Would it be silly to ring the doctor??

Don't panic!! He will probably be fine.

Get some sleep and stop worrying!

He should be fine.

You don't need to ring the Dr, he will be just fine.

It is hard to believe right now - but you will look back on this and laugh. Honest.

Sleep when he sleeps
x

I really don't think I would get too worried, if you're doing this on a regular basis then I would advise you differently but a one off is hardly likely to do any harm.

It's such a steep learning curve with your first DC, you really don't know what you can get away with without seriously harming them! I used to tie myself up in knots over stuff like this, I remember obsessing over whether baby's soother touching the sheet of his Moses basket counted as contamination and warranted a whizz in the steriliser. You will have many more moments like this and come out the other side a lot wiser!

If he's asleep now, take yourself off to sleep too, one of the joys of having your first...there's only you and him to attend to

He'll probably be fine, it isn't an exact 2 hours anyway just a guideline so people don't have the opened formula hanging around for half a day half finished.

He'll be absolutely fine, give yourself a break

Oh, I just read it properly, it wasn't even out for two hours? Definitely don't worry, get some sleep!!

Thanks all. I've calmed down now and looking at it a bit more rationally!

Good :) Sleep deprivation is used as a torture method for a very good reason!