Preparing bottle feeds in advance

[Sexonknackeredlegs]

Ladies, some advice please.

I understand that the Dept of Health do not recommend making up bottles in advance and storing them in the fridge (or anywhere else for that matter) which is what we did with dd1 4 years ago.

Seemingly, each time baby needs a feed, we have to make the bottle up from scratch, which seems to me to be totally impractical.

Obviously I do not want baby to be poorly, but what are others out there doing?

Many thanks

From what I understand, the problems relate more to formula that has been made up but left to stand for some time before being used. It also doesnt seem to relate to healthy, term babies as they can handle low levels of contamination. I will therefore continue to add powder to room temperature water as and when it is required. We have had no problems so far.

This is the important extract:

'Infant and follow-on formulae containing low levels of these micro-organisms do not appear to cause illness in healthy infants and young children. Nevertheless due to the potential for multiplication of these micro-organisms during the preparation and holding time prior to consumption of the reconstituted formula, contamination of powdered infant formula is a considerable risk factor'