Can I prepare formula this way?

[Heatherbell1978]

DD is 8 weeks and bf but takes the occasional bottle. Seriously thinking about switching to ff for various reasons but trying to work out easiest way to manage this while on the go. Switched to bottles with DS when he was 5 months and was always a faff when out and about warming bottles. I used to take the instant milk and ask for hot water to warm or just use a microwave if available.
Can I take boiling water with me in a flask, add the powder to this then add cold water to cool? If so what's the ratio of hot to cold - 50/50? Does the cold water need to be boiled and cooled?

Changed, so you don't think the millions of other babies fed the same as mine, don't constituency data.
Call me suspicious, but I think it's because companies want to flog their expensive ready made formula. It wasn't available quite so easily when mine were babies.

I agree with dingit to some extent. We aren't told that other baby foods need to be boiled to be made sterile, only formula....however, I wouldn't want to take the risk.
I used to bring out a flask of boiling and a bottle of cooled boiled water with me and mix as and when required. If I'm by a Mothercare I use the readymade and use their feeding facilities. The ones I have been into have electric bottle warmers. If I was going somewhere with no access to anything to warm the bottle then I would bring the flask out.
When my lo was in hospital I asked a midwife for boiling water to prepare his bottle. She gave me a disposable sterile water carton and said that would be fine to use I was pissed off at the time but now think it's probably just in her experience, it was indeed fine.

Antagony, if I had a baby now, I wouldn't risk it either, they are way too precious.

I used to fill all the bottles with boiled water and then used powdered tubs to tip the right amount in wherever I needed them. I take the point about the bugs but babies need to build up some immunity! My son was combination fed utnil1 month and the EFF.

this link from the CDC in the US is really clear on the incidence and consequences of the particular bacteria that these guidelines are concerned with (cronobacter).

Please ignore all the "my kids was fine Hun" posters.

It may well be "easier" for you but hospital admissions for babies from bacteria in milk isn't a joke. It isn't sterile at all. It needs to be sterilised with hot water,

Cutes, this isn't like crawling around in the garden getting good bugs for their immunity. It can be and is fatal.