Do those In bottle milk powder dispenser thingies fit into any beakers??

[TheNewShmoo]

DD (10 mo) has lost interest in the boob :-( she had her first bottle of formula tonight, quite happily too the traitor. So now I feel obliged to go out and buy more unnecessary paraphernalia for this new phase of DD's babyhood. I have been eyeing up those cool milk dispenser things but I need it to fit into a beaker, any one know of a beaker it might fit into to? Open to any brand combos. Ta :)

I didnt ever put the milk dispenser into the bottle and just carried it separately. Alternatively you can get dispensers that carry 3 feeds worth of powder e.g.

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Very cool, thanks!

Today I went out with a cooled beaker of water in my new leather handbag, and it leaked :-( big water stains, not happy.

what beaker did you have? I recommend putting it in a freezer bag or having a bag where it can be kept upright

you shouldn't add powder to cooled milk.
formula needs to be made up with water not less then 70 degrees in order to kill off any bacteria in it

thisisyesterday is right. Formula powder is not sterile when you take it out of the tin - the bugs are in the powder - that's why formula needs to be made up with water over 70 degrees.

What they said, obviously tommee tippee make no mention of that!!

I do use my containers still though, I make all the powder at night and make bottles s couple at a time.

If I need to make it like that though, I carry it separately. It would, I presume, fit inside the tommee tippee cups, my ds has one that's basically a bottle with a sippy and you could just switch out the smaller bottle on it with a bigger one?

alternatively you could take an empty beaker and a small carton of formula out with you and only put the milk into the beaker when it is required - no liquid means no spills/leaks

thisisyesterday is of course right.

But... I still make bottles up with the container when out and about too. I don't do it myself but one heard some people take a small thermos flask of water with them to keep it hot (just in case you wanted more paraphernalia to carry about ), no idea if it does actually stay above 70 degrees though, rather than just warm iyswim.

what you can do is make up the formula with freshly boiled water, which will kill off any bacteria.
then chill them immediately.

then you could take it out in an insulated bag or whatever and just warm it when you need it.

Its a bit of a faff isn't it? I'd use separate dispenser and flask of water kept warm enough to 70 degrees! If she just has it the odd time maybe just but the ready cartons?

If your planning to give cows milk at 1 don't go over board buying lots of stuff as its not far off!

Hhhhmm what a faff... I didn't know about the 70 degrees thing. We had weevils in the store cupboard a few years back, still turns my stomach thinking about them moving across the ceiling aaaagh...

DD really only wants milk in the morning and the evening and will be 1 in 7 weeks time, so yes sugarbatty, probably a good idea not to go overboard. I may carry a spare carton, clean bottle and a one feed in a dispenser so depending on where I am I can either make up a feed or just give her the carton.

But still need to carry her water beaker. Any one know of a small beaker with a a soft silicone spout? The tommee tippee is quite big for DD. The only ones which DD takes happily is one that Asda and Tesco do, but both leak.

I used this one for DD, it is for babies from 4 months old and was the only one she could use. Never leaked for me either. www.tommeetippee.co.uk/product/first_sips_cup/

I have that one at the back of the beaker graveyard somewhere, will give it another shot.

Nuby make beakers with silicone spouts, you can even buy spouts seperately that fit on bottles or any size wide neck bottle/cup.

I gave up on the powder, much easier to buy the bottles or cartons and not much more expensive at an age where they only take a couple of feeds a day.