How to safely make a formula feed quickly?

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I've been making bottles up in batches after some advice from a friend who formula feeds but now I'm panicking I have perhaps been doing this wrong.

I've been boilling the kettle then leaving it 30 minutes, added the water to the bottles then using the scoop to add 6oz to each bottle. Shaken them and popped in the fridge ready for night time and morning feeds.

Am I right in thinking it should only be the water I should be putting in the fridge? Then heating the water and putting formula in after heating the sterile water from the fridge? If this is the correct way, is it harmful quickly heating the water in the microwave?

I've had no problems but I thought id double check how others prepare theirs.

The point of boiling the water is to sterilize the water surely?! As well as the formula!

Yes but pp said she was adding powder to cold, pre-boiled water. So she’s sterilised the water but not the powder.

The way I do it now (as we are now on MAM bottles which are tricky to rapid cool in water) is boil the kettle, add 3oz of that to the bottle, add the formula and shake, then add 4oz water from the fridge. So basically the way the perfect prep does it.
Oh, the bottles of sterile water we keep in the fridge measured out in sterilised bottles, and it's cooled boiled water. So an 8oz bottle does us 2 bottles of formula.

If anyone has any suggestions of pre making bottles with MAM bottles please please let me know how! The water kept getting sucked up into mine when I rapid cooled them 

Another vote for a perfect prep machine 👌🏻
We got ours second hand for £25 and just got a new filter.
Ready, made and in baby's mouth within 3 mins with no fussing about heating or cooling water.

I'm also on the ready made formula in the changing bag camp too.

Yeah Mam are no good for cooling/warming in water because of the screw bottoms. The water doesn't get in to the milk but it dribbles down your arm as you feed.

I didn't bother with perfect prep machine. As @Spam88 has said, I made them up in a batch, flash cooled and stored in the back of the fridge. Warmed in jug of hot water as required. WHO guidelines state that this method is an alternative when bottles cannot be made up fresh. Obviously freshly made is ideal.

I think the change of guidelines is because a lot of people batch make bottles and either leave them to cool or stick them straight in to the fridge. Perfect breeding ground for bacteria!!

A lot of people seem to think boiling the water is just to sterilise the water. It is to sterilise the formula. So it always needs to be over 70 degrees.

I've heard mixed reports about why you shouldn't use boiling water. Some say it's because it kills nutrients in the powder but others say it's because of the risk of scalding injuries when shaking the bottle 🤷‍♀️.

Now that DS is over 7 months old, I put my steriliser away yesterday. I just wash the bottles in very hot, soapy water and air dry on my bottle tree. Have decided to switch to using 3 ounces of boiling water, add formula, shake and top up with 4 ounces of tap water. I use the milk powder dispenser pots so all I have to do is tip the powder straight in. This is a homemade perfect prep machine. I wasn't too keen on using this method when he was younger. I don't think you should take risks with a young baby.

When out and about I use ready made.

perfect prep machine vote. Don’t know how I managed for so long without one

On the tommee tippiee website they advise using cooled pre boiled water to make bottles when out and about. They seem to imply that bacteria production happens once the formula has been added to the water so it is better to add the formula when you are ready to feed. They say “try” to warm the water so the temperature of the water doesn’t seem to matter....

www.tommeetippee.co.uk/parent-room/how-do-i-prepare-a-bottle-of-formula-milk

The powder needs to meet hot water, preferably just below boiling to avoid scalds. There were a number of cases (I think in Belgium?) where babies got very ill and died a few years ago. I worked out a method of using a combination of boiling straight onto the powder and then adding cold (not boiled just from the tap) to get to the right amount. I think it was close to half and half. I had a baby who couldn't wait more than a minute or two from waking...

Relax. NHS guidelines are extremely strict and are aimed at the lowest common denominator. Official guidelines vary wildly around the world:
U.S.A: don't bother to sterilise bottles because their dishwashers are super hot.
Iceland: Make up 8 bottles at a time and cool in fridge. Get out when needed.
New Zealand : Make bottles up with cold water. Whatever you do, don't use boiling water as it alters the milk. This is official advice.
Unless you are very dirty and/or stupid you can't go wrong!