how do you warm ebm?

[artichokes]

i have managed to express for the first time ever.
dh is going to give dd2 her first bottle tonight.
we have never bottle-fed a baby before!
the milk is in the fridge. how do we prepare it??

Put it in a pot/jug of boiling water until it is up to temp. Thats all I used to do with mine anyway.

are we aiming for room temp?

i just stick the bottle in a jug of hot water till it's warmed through. give it a good shake and do the squirt test before giving.

then - at the moment anyway - i pour it down the sink while muttering curses through gritted teeth (my oh-so-biddable baby has become a little refusenik ).

good luck!

i just stick the bottle in a jug of hot water till it's warmed through. give it a good shake and do the squirt test before giving.

then - at the moment anyway - i pour it down the sink while muttering curses through gritted teeth (my oh-so-biddable baby has become a little refusenik ).

good luck!

Not boiling water - just warm! Boiling kills something in breast milk that you don't want to. Sorry, not being very technical, will check...

whoops

I meant put freshly boiled water in a jug and sit the bottle in it.

best I can do atm!

We just did a jug a warm water too.

Don't put it in the microwave, it kills all the good bits in EBM. Warm in a jug of hot water.

Alternatively it can be good to get them used to drinking it cold. Saves a lot of efort!!

thanks everyone.
how warm should it be? room temp or warmer?

To be honest, I wasn't overly bothered about warming it at all. Sometimes I just took the chill off and sometimes I didn't at all. I didn't want DS to be fussy about milk temperature for those occasions when I couldn't get to a jug of warm water.

I'd say room temp is fine personally.