out and about with ff baby - how to heat milk?

[samnjack]

Seems like a silly question, but my DS is newly onto the bottle and I've only fed him out of the house with a ready made carton of milk in a sterile bottle. What's the best way to do it with the powder? Can I carry a sterile bottle with the right amount of water in and then heat after adding the powder, or should I take hot water in a flask and use that?

I agree pirate

Thanks echo& all...

Am I being really thick: when you say you have boiled water in a 'flask' do you mean boiled water in a bottle in a thermal carrier?

If not- how do you make sure the flask is sterile?

IMHO you don't have to worry about the flask being sterile after all it's only having boiling water in it. I have a flask that I only use for that purpose so it's never had anything else in it. I did give it a good wash and put some milton solution in it when I first bought it but haven't bothered since as I can't see how boiling water would carry many germs.

You could put the boiling water in a clean bottle then put it in a thermal carrier but I am yet to find one that will keep it at 70 degrees for very long and that's the whole point of doing it that way.

I went through many different ways of trying to produce a bottle safely and found this to be the best way, I also do it when I'm at home by boiling a small amount of water in the kettle which I use immediately then top up with cooled boiled water from the fridge, thus also making the bottle very quickly. HTH

oh my goodness!
Am new to mumsnet and did think I was asking a silly question so am really surprised by the level of response! Thanks to all who've replied - it has educated me not only in how to prepare feeds while out, but what I should (and hadn't been) doing at home...