Formula question from exhausted first time mum

[LongJohnGlitter]

So tired if making up the powdered sma... I'm so tired all the time I worry about getting the amount of scoops right. My lo is only a week old! I wonder if anyone sees a problem switching yo sma ready to use? Thanks x

I always used the ready made cartons and I used the pre sterilised disposable bottles.

Now, I use the Mam bottles and ready made milk.

Do exactly the same as PP, used the little ready made bottles with teats included for the first week and then moved to Mam bottles and ready made formula.

Keep meaning to move to powder as it will be a bit cheaper but ready made is so easy, especially during the night!

Maybe you could do powder in the day and ready made at night. Don't think there's a problem with swapping but perhaps check with HV. Have you considered a perfect prep?

I used SMA and found the ready made wasnt as thick as the powder. (I used the starter kit and then pre made in hospital as my son was in for 12 days).
Also it's not cost effective to use ready made.
I made bottles in advance and stored them. Easy to do and no need for a machine to do it for you at all.

My husband sterilized on an evening and made up 6 bottles of cool boiled water which we left on the side, during the day I added the scoops either straight from the carton in in a blue divider (Tommee Tippee maybe? it has 3 sections so we had two for the 6 feeds)

He fed room temp formula so no heating, we used the ready made stuff sometimes but I found the above easier

@seayork2020 but you have to dissolve formula into boiling water so it kills any germs. You can't put it into cold water whether it's been previously boiled or not. It's not about getting rid of germs in the water but in the actual formula powder.

[quote Russell19]@seayork2020 but you have to dissolve formula into boiling water so it kills any germs. You can't put it into cold water whether it's been previously boiled or not. It's not about getting rid of germs in the water but in the actual formula powder.[/quote]
I just went with what my hv advised when my son was a baby

@seayork2020 but it is wrong and potentially dangerous to a baby...

I would probably have done the same but my baby was super fussy and only liked powdered. Had a good hack though....

Re the boiling water agree with PP this is to kill the germs in the formula. So I would put 60mls boiling water in with the formula powder then top the rest with cooled boiled water I kept in another sterile bottle in fridge. Meant it was right temp too as the bottles got bigger! For younger I still needed to cool a bit as ratio of hot to cold shifted.

Worked really well when out too as just had to ask for some boiling water and carried the rest.

I measure out the formula into little pots everyday and then tip them into the bottles when I make them up on perfect prep machine. Means I know the formula is measured correctly as I do it all in one go and is a great help at night- one less thing to slow down getting bottle to baby!

Get a perfect prep machine. Makes perfect bottle in seconds. It's genuinely a game changer

I second the perfect prep. Me and dh then measured out the scoops into little sterilised pots so we just had to tip them in during the night. Took away worry of the wrong amount of formulq

At newborn stage I used to prepare 4 bottles before bed to get through the night. Prepare them with boiling water, cool them down fast under running water and store them in the back of the fridge.
In the middle of the night quick microwave zap to warm up and done.
NHS website says that you can keep them up to 24h in the fridge and my HV said it was OK.

We only used ready made.

I premade and chilled them too. It was fine although against the guidelines.

So I have a kettle that boils water and then keeps it at 70 degrees, the temp the WHO recommends. We have a wee tub primarily bought for out and about. We measured out the scoops into that before bed. When he woke at night I'd quickly make up the bottle and put it in cold water to cool, by the time I'd changed him and got him ready for his bottle it was cool enough to feed. We use pre-made if we're out and about but it's much more expensive to use regularly.

I used ready made all the time.

Don’t do what seayork2020 is suggesting. It isn’t safe

Perfect prep is great but you can replicate it at home.

Tommee tippee do formula pots to measure out your scoops (count out loud as you scoop) and have them all ready for the day. Once you have done one right you'll notice if the others are off.

At the start of the day, boil a full fresh kettle and pour it out into a jug and leave to cool. For each bottle, boil a small amount (say an 8oz bottle boil 2oz) and mix in the formula, then top up with 6oz of the cooled boiled water. Check the temperature before giving to baby but it's the safest way of making an instant powder bottle.

@Lalanbaba

At newborn stage I used to prepare 4 bottles before bed to get through the night. Prepare them with boiling water, cool them down fast under running water and store them in the back of the fridge. In the middle of the night quick microwave zap to warm up and done. NHS website says that you can keep them up to 24h in the fridge and my HV said it was OK.

Microwaves shouldn't be used to warm bottles as they do not heat evenly and you can have boiling hot spots in the milk.

OP, until things settle down there is no harm in using pre made