Preparing formula feeds

[Sixtyfourzoolane]

Hello! I’m new to bottle feeding and have a baby starting with a childminder soon ish and I just wondered - what is the normal practice here? Do people still make up bottles for their childminder ahead of time or do they prepare each feed as and when? Baby is 10 months so doesn’t have that many feeds!

Best to send the powder and let them do it. Or send ready made formula. Should try and avoid making bottles up due to bacteria growth. (but if you do choose to do that make sure you put on the bottle when it was made up.) I have had it when parents come in with a bottle and we have no clue how long it was made, how long it was out of the fridge ect.

I don't know if advice has changed since I did it, but I used to send in bottles with cooked boiled water and pre measured formula to add in at feeding time.

Yes thatis another way of doing it but your meant to use fresh boiled water. So thats fine if your out and about but if childminder can do fresh boiled water thats the best.

Parents measure out the formulae into tubs I boil the water or send the whole carton for me to make up.

I'm either given a big tub of formula to live at my house, or they decant Into those tubs with all the sections so one section for each feed. Or they buy and give me the actual ready made cartons.

For me, it depends how many days the baby is doing. If they are full time, I ask for a tub of milk and however many bottles the baby will have a day. I will then sterilise the bottles and make up the milk As required. If baby is only doing 2 days a week, I ask them to send formula measured out and sterilised bottles each day.

No to making up before - bottles should be thrown 2hrs after - I tend to after after an hour or else I’d still feeding Throws other feeds out

Current guidelines say make fresh with freshly boiled water

Or use ready made