This is how you make up *warm* formula milk in less than 90 seconds.

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1. in the morning , sterilise all your bottles.

2. Lets say dc takes 7 ounces per feed. boil in kettle and then pur 4.5 ounces into each sterliser. screw on cap, leave to cool down to room temp.

3. when dc is hungry, boil water in kettle (tiny bit, shouldnt take a minute) and top up a bottle to make 7 ounces. scoop in milk, shake and serve.

the idea is room temp water + freshly boiled water = water at right temp.

You can EVEN have the water boiled in a flask that will make the whole thing quicker by about 60 seconds. that will give you warm milk in an instant.

just a tip i made up when i was bottlefeeding dd1.

doodle there have been cases where formula manufacturers have had to recall formula because of contamination (in one case with infant botulism).
of course if a baby gets a g/e infection, it is not always possible to isolate where the contamination arose - in the factory or from the kitchen or the water or the hands of the person making it or the bottle or whatever.
best be safe though.

no one wants to answer my question

back in the day I made mine up with boiling water, put them in the fridge when they'd cooled and heated them up when required in a jug of hot water and when we got richer a bottle warmer

Does it say not hot or not boiling, Stacey?

I don't really know what is in antireflux powder but presumably it is not a foodstuff as such and therefore not so prone to growing bacteria?

it says cold! makes me wonder wether its the reflux making him sicky or the formula!

(Also, your anti-reflux powder may be sterile - is it in sealed sachets?)

no its in a tin like SMA

It isn't made of milk, though? It's milk that is particularly prone to grow bugs which cause stomach upsets.

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Oh, it is milk - just googled and found this - it says add cool boiled water.

I see what you're saying, Stacey!

Ingredients:

SKimmed milk, veg. oils, rice starch, lactose, maltodextrin......etc etc.....

Instructions:

boil water, allow to cool to room temp, pour desired amount, add powder , cap bottle, roll between hands then shake well.....

Maybe you should try using ordinary formula and mixing it with 70 degree water and see if that makes any difference?

hmmmm........only thing is i dont think i could cope going back to the level of sickiness we had before......

might try it tho, will have to think about it!

So glad these days are gone!!

gosh I don't know then stacey, maybe it is balanced in the risks/benefits? I would ask the HV/GP who prescribed it to you and see what they say

yeah i may do, i never thought about germs in it before and needing hot water to kill them........

now i wish id managed to bf!

ach well - I'm just going to continue as I am - I know the risks but I also seen DS3 shoving his fingers/blanket/end of DH's trousers (the cot is next to one of those "handing rail" things in our bedroom - last night he managed to wriggle round and stuck his arm through the side of the cot - grabbing the first thing that came to hand.....DH's work trousers which he then started sucking on - yuck) etc into his mouth and it's only going to be a matter of time before he's eating mudpies and gawd knows what else from the garden

Exactly QoQ - by a few months old they grabbing all sorts with their chubby little paws and having a good old suck on it. That's why I gave up sterilising quite early adn I never sterilised spoons or bowls or anything. As for making up bottles - sometimes it was with hot water, sometimes with cooled water.

I don't think any of mine have ever had diarrohea and I can count the vomiting incidents on one hand. That's 3 kids over the last 6 years.

Either they are complete freaks or some of these things are really not that important!

are yo usupposed to steralise spoons my ds is quite well equiped at eating elaves and grass at the park so maybe its not worth worrying about! the only time hes had diahreea (sp????) is when i had it after eating at MIL's, dd didnt eat the lasagne, dd didnt get ill

LOL at the lasagne!!

I think the advice is to sterilise feeding stuff early on but I never did.

Is diarrohea just one of those things you are prone to or not? I think I've had it twice in my entire life.

Some people are def more prone to it, GDG. We have fairly cast-iron stomachs in this house (need to, with my housekeeping standards! Although I am fairly rigorous with food hygiene)

Worst attacks we ever had were after a visitor brought us a milky jelly thing, made hot and still warm (god knows what it was, she was Dutch) and after we'd eaten it informed us that her DD who currently had D&V had helped her make it (She was completely nuts anyway, need I add!)