Bottle feeding when out

[SalmonLadder]

I've have just switched from bf to ff (for various reasons which I won't go into here) and am so confused about how to prepare a bottle when you are out and about. All the literature says you need boiling water to sterilise the powder but how do you cool it quickly if you are out? I wondered if I could mix the powder with cooled boiled water and then top up with boiled water from a flask? Will that be safe enough? Am I just being dense....hundreds of women ff their babies out and about so there must be a way to do it safely!! Dd is 8 weeks so I don't want to do anything that could give her an upset tummy hence the stupid question.

I am also ff and had the same worries, DS is 3 weeks. I have a flask, and leave the water to cool before putting in the flask, but I don't leave it any longer than 30 mins. I have a spare scoop from the formula tub that I sterilise and put that and the powder in a sterilised tub and make up the bottle when I'm out and the water is more or less cool enough straight away. It's a bit of a faff but it works for us - having said that I am op3n to better ideas!! x

take a sterilised bottle and a carton of milk (and something to open the carton with rather than using your teeth). Or take hot water in a bottle in a insulated bottle bag and add the powder when required or take a chilled made up bottle in a cool bag with an ice pack and get hot water to heat it while you are out.

I used to use a powder dispenser that you pre-measured the right amount of powder into before going out and it held enough for 3 feeds.

I had one similar to this and also had an avent one but it wasnt as easy to get the powder out.

I think it was this one I had

Tommee tippee do a flask that comes with a bottle holder so you can either use it for hot water or cold.
You can then warm up or cool down required bottle.
I also like their little black bottle holders that are like mini cool bags, I find if I put boiling water in bottle it will still be warm enough a few hours later. I also use the little tubs to put pre measured scoops in, we have tommee tippee and avent one but you get own brand too like boots.
First few weeks I made bottle in advance, cooled then put in fridge. Put in cool bag and put in hot water to warm when required. I now just put water in bottle and mix when required (cooling or hearing water if needed).

Might be worth getting a couple of the ready made cartons while your out and about to begin with

We tended to use the ready made cartons of formula when we were out.

If you're in a cafe or suchlike, they're usually happy to provide hot water to warm a cold bottle in.

Cartons and sterilised bottle so much easier than flasks and worrying about the heat of the water.

If you take cooled boiled water and heat it up, is that hot enough to kill the germs? I thought it needed to be boiling for that? It would then be too hot and you'd have to wait for it to cool down I guess?? Grrr...I wish bf had been more successful. This just seems so complicated!

You either take hot water or cold milk or use cartons and then you don't need to worry about killing bacteria. My 2 even took the cartons at room temperature so didn't need to heat them

Small flask with 70 degree previously boiled water in it, sterilised bottle and container with milk power I had previously measured out.
Make up bottle when out then ask for cold water to cool it to temperature baby likes!

I always just took a sterilised bottle and some scissors and one of the ready made cartons. Easy peasey. .