Pre-prepared bottle advice needed please

[WillowsPillow]

Apologies if this has been asked a million times before!

I'm a FTM and need advice on making bottles of formula. Up to now, we've been making bottles as we need them, as advised by my midwife. But I've seen a lot of talk on here about making bottles in advance. Could someone please explain how to make, store, and heat the bottles? Or if they can be given cold (out the fridge).

We're going to a wedding next month so obviously won't be able to make the bottles as we need them. I've been looking at the rapid cool type flasks, but wonder if we actually need one.

Any advice is appreciated! I didn't want to just Google it.

For the wedding I'd take pre made cartons of formula and some sterilised bottles.

For the wedding I’d take empty sterilised bottles and cartons of ready made formula. Pour out as/when needed.

For day to day, the midwife’s advice is impractical nonsense so I would look at the nuby rapid cool, perfect prep machine and the make ahead, refrigerate (at the back of the fridge to ensure it’s cool) and reheat method (never in a microwave in case if hot spots, test before feeding) - decide what you’re comfortable with/what would work best for you.

You don’t need anything special, no rapid cool or prep machine.
What I do is sterilise the bottles in Milton, make however many I need for 24 hours and store them in the back of the fridge

Little'un is on Aptimil Pepti 1 for a suspected cows milk allergy, so we can't use the pre made cartons anymore.

Do you need to warm up the bottle before giving it? Or will making them with boiled water be enough to kill bacteria in the powder?

Your baby might not want to take cold milk. Heating is to make it more palatable for them

My baby likes them warm so I always heat them up. I microwave whiz I know isn’t advised. Out and about I use a jug of hot water

I don’t think you make Pepti 1 with a hot shot do you? Doesn’t it damage the nutrients?

I used to have 2 flasks one with boiled water that only cooled slightly and then one with cooled boiled water and just made up as I went when I was out. I had little pots to fill the powder up with the right amount. Will you have access to kettle and then you could just top the flask up as needed ?

I read that's the case with normal formula too.

both my kids have CMPA and we’ve used pepti1 as well as several other prescription formulas. We do the hot shot method, you need:
1x flask of boiling water
1x large baby bottle of cooled (to room temp) boiled water (we use a baby bottle rather than thermos as it means we can measure water volume accurately)
Sterilised empty bottle(s)
pre portioned formula powder

method:

1. put 2oz boiling water into the empty bottle
2. add formula and shake
3. add cooled boiled water (your usual water amount minus the 2oz boiling you’ve already put in. E.g. for a 5oz feed you would do your 2oz boiling and then 3oz cooled water)
4. shake again, check temp and feed.

Hope that helps - not being able to use ready-to-feed formula is one of the faffiest elements of CMPA!