solid blobs of formula inside teat - what the hell is it?

[tasmaniandevilchaser]

hi, dd is almost 9 mths and mainly bf, so I'm not expert at all with formula.

This evening I made up a bottle with powder and cooled, boiled water, she didn't drink much, threw the bottle around the room for a while, but when I came to wash it up, the teat had what looked like solid blobs of white stuff all inside it. When I touched it, it was all fatty.

What the hell is this? I'm thinking I've poisoned her with curdled milk, but it didn't smell bad.

doubt you have poisoned her but you do have to give it a real shake with cooler water if you are mixing powder in. Have seen those blobs a few times when have made up bottles for dd and left water longer to cool. It's not made her sick but has been thoroughly unpleasant to clean .

phew! thanks poppy, that's put my mind at rest. Thinking back, it's probably the coolest water I've used, which would explain it.

Just not completely mixed the formula. Water should be cooler than boiled but not cold (unless states otherwise on formula packaging). It maybe why she didn't drink much if it was blocking teat?

You should use hotter water to dissolve the formula fully, it can also taste/feel gritty when not fully dissolved.

i am sure she isn't poisoned, but formula must be made up with water that isn't long off the boil to kill off any pathogens in it

thanks everyone, you have reassured me. I usually make it up with just boiled water, still really hot. Though then it takes ages to cool down and by the time she drinks it all, it's more than an hour old. And I thought that this was the limit.

Though everyone I know that uses formula just mixes their formula with a bottle of cooled, boiled water when we're out and about.

I find it all a bit of palava tbh, as you can probably tell!

you could cool it down by putting it in cold water/

or make it up with half the amount of boiling water, and then add cold to cool it.

or better still, if it's a faff, just breastfeed! lol

I always used to shake it side-to-side (at least the first few shakes), rather than up-and-down to avoid clumping in the teat.