Formula and cluster feeding

[anonymoushelp]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help.

My son is currently going through cluster feeding, but I am struggling to make a bottle of formula quick enough before he gets too upset/distort. I have tried putting the bottle in a container filled with cold water (I make sure tap water doesn't get inside the prepared bottle) to help cool it down. I have also held the prepared bottle under the cold tap, but it still takes it's time.

A mum I have been speaking with said to me that I can prepare a few bottles in advance and store them in the fridge and just warm them up before feeding him. I'm not too sure about that as I have always heard you can't do that with formula because of bacteria.

I don't know if it helps, but my son is on Neocate LCP baby formula.

If there's any ideas or suggestions that would be helpful.

Perfect prep machine. Bottle in 90 seconds ready to go. Job done

I used the nuby rapid cool flasks with my son, takes about 2-3 minutes max from boiling to drinking temp (even quicker if it’s a small amount of milk). Freshly made each time. My son went through a stage of lots of bottles, maybe every 1.5hrs. I made the process quicker by boiling water and putting it in a thermos, if it was within 2hrs it was still hot enough for the process. This eliminates the 1-2 minutes boiling the kettle. Once he reached 4+ months old he was happy enough waiting for the kettle to boil.

I had two nuby flasks, so I could rotate them and they had time to reset. He usually took bottles every 1.5hrs.

Just keep a jar of cooled boiled water in the fridge. If baby is on 5oz for example, do 2oz of boiling water with 5 scoops, mix & then add 3oz of the cool water from the fridge. Easy (and free)!