Bottle Feeding and nursery - a repeat thread but lost the old one...

[Meeely3]

if the current guidelines are to make bottles up on demand for baby using 70degree water - how come a friend of mine says her nursery refuse to make bottles, saying they are not allowed to and thus she has to provide premade bottles (which is exactly wot i used to do with my older two , but thought I would have to change with my now 12 week old)....I have as yet to approach the nursery my DS3 will be attending, but does anyone elses nursery do it the right way and make bottles up as and when baby needs them?

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bump but i just used to send cartons in hth

DD2 will be starting at childminder next month (DD1 has been with her since 9mo also) and we were discussing the implications of the changes in the making up of bottles the other day. She has said that she will happily make up the bottles following the new guidelines but tbh I think I am just going to give her empty bottles and cartons as its such a faff making the bottles up and I'd rather she didn't have to do it (she's an angel and I totally trust her to do it properly but she has other children to look after and I'd rather it wasn't one more thing she has to do).

I've spoken to a couple of friends who have their DCs in nurseries and they say that their nurseries won't make the bottles up fresh either, one sends cartons and the other just pre-makes the bottles (she's very much of the opinion that her other DCs didn't come to any harm doing it that way so is doesn't see it as a big risk which in some ways I agree with her about).

I guess I can kind of see why nurseries wouldn't be keen to make up the bottles themselves, they would have all the different boxes of powdered milk for each child and could be held responsible if a child became ill due to a bottle which wasn't made up properly or milk which had become contaminated. Then there is the time involved in actually making the bottles up and I'm sure there will be something in the good ol' H&S guidelines which forbids them from handling water above a certain temperature

So cartons are probably the answer which is a bit annoying as it's a much more expensive way of doing things. I've noticed that supermarkets and Boots are stocking a lot more ready made formula in various sizes, reckon the new guidelines won't have done the baby milk companies profit's much harm!

cartons is expensive definitely, as he will be going 5 days a week and is currently having 3 bottles in the time span 8.30am - 5.30am, so guess its back to making them up in advance which is what I did for the twins and as your friend said, didn't do them any harm.....

I have a sneaky suspician that the new guidelines are a cheeky way to make bottle feeding the harder option again, so much easier to plug a baby on a ready warmed boob, than boiling a kettle, waiting half an hour, making bottle and cooling it for 20 mins under tap all the while jiggling screaming baby on hip....however for those of us where breast did not work it makes life quite complicated!

Apparently the new guidelines came from the food standards agency and the Royal College of Midwives weren't even informed at the time! It does seem over the top as there is no evidence to show that babies were getting ill, rather there is a concern that they might get ill which seems ridiculous. I have just over 3 yrs between my DDs and I'm finding that it is even difficult to get food and bottles warmed up in cafes, restaurants etc this time around. One very nice lady told me the other day that she couldn't take my baby food into the kitchen to warm it up as she could be accused of contaminating it when out of sight but that she couldn't give me a bowl of hot water to stand it in at my table in case I scalded myself! She was of course allowed to serve me a scalding hot black coffee though - honestly!!!

belle - it is H&S gone mad isn't it - I now have a Fisher Price bottle warmer (like a thermos with a bottle sized lid which u flip over and pour the boiling water in and drop in your bottle), which I take EVERYWHERE as even John Lewis' don't have bottle warmers plugged in in their mother and baby rooms now (mothercare still do though), so it's invaluable for bottle feeding on the go.

what you said is reassuring actually as we have been making bottles up 3 at a time, just so I always have a rolling total of 3 in the fridge throughout the day - if it's only a 'might' get ill rather than 'will' get ill if you don't following guidelines I am more willing to go back to the way I did it 4 years ago with my twins....