cows' milk - can i leave it in a bottle out of the fridge overnight?

[olivo]

dd 21mo, still has a bottle in the morning as soon as she wakes up; usually, i make it up (formula) before i go to bed and leave it out till the morning. we are nearly at the end of the formula, which is no longer made, and i wondered if it would be safe to leave cow's milk out overnight instead. we have tried dropping the bottle and just having milk at breakfast time but she wont take it and i'm not prepared for her to drop that amount of milk yet. she will only drink it room temp so even dragging myself downstairs as soon as she wakes is a bit of a faff.

any ideas? TIA

actually, lulumama, i have a feeling that's what i used to do, not sure when i started making it up at night! have tried the hipp powder but i cant get it to dissolve properly (and the 7 scoop s dont fit in the powder containers!). will check out the ready made tomorrow; hopefully it wont be for too long, dd is just starting to accept milk from a cup at nursery (she has been drinking water from cups for about a year but would not touch milk from anything other than a bottle) so then we might be able to drop this bottle . TBH, its more a routine thing now i guess, will maybe try and crack it during the summer holidays!

thanks all, for you help.

welcome!

Hipp don't do ready made cartons, but 7 scoops should fit in an avent holder. Like Lulumama suggests, I would put the hot water in a flask and mix it up in a sterilised bottle when needed.

surely the powder can go in any old tupperware?

We leave DS and DDs bottles of cows milk out overnight, except when it is really hot, and haven't found it a problem.

You could always put a bottle in the freezer first thing in the morning and take it out at bedtime to melt overnight, then it would still be 'fresh'. Or just pop it in a cool bag.

IMO by 21 months, if the worst thing they drink is a bit of milk at room temp then you are doing well, DD is a big fan of pond water!

no such problems with breastfeeding

not sure it would work Liz, stopped 14 months ago

oh well guess you're just going to have to traipse downstairs then

Go downstairs.

Pour cows milk from fridge into bottle

Zap for 30 secs in microwave (yes I know.. just buy BPA free bottles and give it a good shake, it will be fine.)

Done.

Honestly its easy.

yes talilac, that's just what we do - sometimes we even put the cows milk in the bottle the night before and put in fridge for even quicker grab-and-zap. But... it still involves actually getting out of bed

a bedside microwave and mini-fridge?

well, breastfeeding next time

don't have a microwave!

I left bottles out whilst DS2 was still waking every 4hr hours. Had them upstairs (also no microwave!) and the formula went in boiling just before I went to bed, and was perfect temp for the two bottles when I needed them- first one pretty warm, still drinkable, second one slightly cool, again still drinkable.

I know, against guidelines, but he still lives. Has no upset tums etc etc....

Surely freshly boiled water with the added formula has to cool down anyway at its own speed, so I never saw the problem.

Okay, now that it's just the one bottle to make at 6.30am, I do go downstairs and do it all properly and by the book, but I don't think what the OP has been doing is the end of the world.