Hot Shot Method?! Help?!

[elizabethxxx]

Hi all!

I am about to have my baby, I plan to breastfeed but wanting to know how to prep bottles just incase!

From what I have read you can use the hot shot method with about quarter boiling water and topped up with cooled boiling water?

I was wondering how this works with newborn bottles as I thought they were 2-3oz?!

TIA for any advice! From one overwhelmed FTM! 😘

I think I read somewhere it’s not suitable for under 4oz as the ratios are not enough. You can however get a Nuby Rapid Cool which are fab. Make up the amount you want with boiling water, pop in the rapid cool and in a couple or minutes it’ll be the right temperature

I might be wrong about the hot shot though.

I just used ready made for the first couple of weeks until they were in a feeding routine, I just about had my shit together mentally and they were taking 4oz feeds. If you plan to breastfeed and are thinking just in case you need to do formula top ups then I’d definitely do ready made. Yes it’s more expensive but it’s negligible when they’re taking such tiny amounts. If you end up mix feeding or solely bottle feeding later on that’s when I’d move on to the powder and the hot shot method.

I agree, get a pack of starter ready made bottles in case you decide not to breastfeed. You will throw away a lot to begin with because new borns take in such small
amounts. When you decide to formula feed you will probably progress to the bigger ready made bottles and then progress to powder. I really wouldn’t worry about it until then - there is enough on your plate with a new baby and ready made is so easy. I’d wait until you have had a couple of weeks under your belt before you start making up formula.

We recreated the hot shot method using the kettle with my daughter. She was older and on either. 5oz or 8oz bottles. If we did a 5 Oz bottle we did 2oz of boiling water on 5 scoops of formula then added 3 Oz of cooled boiled water and 3oz boiled 5 Oz cooled water for the 8oz bottles.

You could do half boiled and half cooled water for smaller bottles, it would be on the warmer side so couldn't be given straight away but wouldn't take too long to cool down.

If it's going to be an occasional or perhaps not even needed then stick to ready made. Much less risk of it not being prepared properly.