Formular feeding?

[Katieemilyxo]

I was wondering how long you can give your baby the bottle after making it, online it saids discard after a hour on the formular it's self it saids you can regard after two?!

My understanding is that if the bottle has been drunk from, then 1 hr is the max time you should keep it for. The 2hrs is if the bottle hasn't been used yet, and if it's not in the fridge, I think.

If it's not been drunk frm I'd say 2 hours, tbh I've kept it longer in one of those insulated flask things which is about the worst place for it with regards bacteria. But then if you're adding boiling water to a sterile bottle I'm never too worried about it tbh.

If it's been drunk from then yeah I'd say 1 hour.

Yes, one hour is after baby has drunk some, because their saliva contaminates the milk and can cause bacteria to multiply more quickly :)

2 hours is unrefrigerated, as said. You can make bottles up to 12 hours in advance if you cool them quickly and keep at the back of the fridge. Don't let them sit around getting cool slowly and then keep them for hours.

I don't think your allowed to store them in the fridge anymore as ur reccomended to make the bottle as the baby needs it now due to bacteria build up but I was told the exact same 2 hour untouched 1 hour if drunken out of

NHS website still advises making and refridgerating a feed (last 24 hours when in fridge) along with other advice.

Wish I was told that! I would of done that my midwife and health adviser said u couldn't do that anymore due to the bathroom build up well that's frustrating

Lol Bathroom build up my phone and it's auto correct

You're correct that best practice is to make up fresh, but this isn't always convenient. So in the recent past the advice given was to make up fresh, and people (and perhaps some HVs and MWs) misinterpreted this to mean that you could make up a bottle with cooled boiled water. That isn't right, though, because the problem is that the powder isn't sterile so it needs to be made up with hot water (over 70C, or no longer than 30 minutes past boiled).

So the advice changed slightly. The best practice is still to make up fresh. But instead of the focus being on making up fresh, the focus has changed to make up with hot water. This is important. So it's now communicated that the second-best thing is to make up no more than 24 hours in advance, flash cool (hold under running cold water) and refrigerate. If HVs and MWs aren't advising this then it might be that they haven't been retrained since the advice has slightly changed.

In the past it was advised to make up the whole day's bottles in advance because this was seen as more practical but when they changed it it seems that wasn't a consideration

You basically want to minimise the amount of time the formula spends in the temperature "danger zone" which is between 4 and 60 degrees Celsius, with the middle of the zone being the temp that bacteria breeds the quickest (21 - 47 degrees). So making the formula with water >70 degrees and then cooling as quick as possible to