Making up bottles for going out

[Craftycakey15]

I'm going out for several hours this week with my newborn and wondered what I do for making up her bottle when out. She won't be feeding til at least three hours after we leave. Please advise what I do? Take empty bottles and ask for boiling water to mix with formula from pot? If so, is the empty bottle still sterile after several hours? I can't use ready maxes as my baby has lactose free? Do I need to buy a bottle warmer? Don't know anything about them!

My DD has/had reflux but gp also suspected cmpi and she said the test for both obviously separately, was to take the treatment and see if the symptoms goes.

Thank you all

It's actually tomorrow now we are going to hospital in central London. I think I'm going to take a flask of boiled water and a flask of cooled boiled water and mix them. If I need to make 6oz does anyone know what proportions I should use? 50-50? I know to put the boiling water first and then formula to mix in and sterilise it, then add cooled water last.

I would try 2oz boiled and 4oz cooled but try it today on the house to make sure.

Don't forget that your cooled water will need to be premessured as the powder milk will add volume.

Hope all goes well with your trip.

In the future, if your baby has CMPA you could ask your GP for a prescription for Nutramigen milk. Nutramigen can be made up using water at room temperature and this really simplifies the whole leaving the house thing!

Seeing a specialist tomorrow and hope he prescribes it or neocate. My GP didn't prescribe anything, just referred me on.

Good luck.

Good luck,
They will probably try nutramigen first but if there's no improvements don't be afraid go back and ask for neocate. We did after 2 weeks. A lot of babies can't tolerate nutramigen due to the milk proteins

I had a LF baby I made the bottles and took then out in a cool bag.

I use comfort milk so I can't buy the little bottles, which is a pain.

When I go out I take:

A proper Thermos which I fill with boiling water (it cools by the time I use it)
A little pot of pre-measures formula
An empty sterile bottle
A sterile bottle with pre-measured cold (cooled, boiled) water

I measure out some hot water (same measurement as my perfect prep machine - usually 50/60 ml), add formula and shake, then top up with cold water. Takes about two mins.

The empty cold water bottle can then be kept for emergencies - just add more formula to hot water and ask a shop to give you some ice to cool it.

All the people saying buy readymade, the OP has said that she can't use it as her baby has lactose free.

Fartniss how many ounces is your baby taking if you use 50ml of hot water. I wanted to know the proportion of hot to cold but never thought of checking what the prep machine does !

Yes I wish I could use the ready maxes but it turns out my baby has CMPA and we use prescription milk.

Hi all, I have been sterilizing my baby's bottles and putting boiled water in them and storing in the fridge when needed I heat up the water and add formula, I have just read you should make up with boiled water as you need it and shouldn't store the water in the fridge, how long do the bottles stay steralised after the steraliser lid is open? Am I supposed to steralise one at a time? Which doesn't make sense when the steraliser holds 8 bottles? Thanks