help! Forgot to make bottle...

[tonton]

..boiled water won't cool for ages and 11 month old very hungry! Is it too risky to use unboiled water to make formula?

Good grief no. Bung the tap water in.

He is surely picking toys off the kitchen floor and shoving them in his mouth by now?

stick the cap on and run it under the cold tap.

and I have no idea but suspect certain bugs wouldn't be killed by using cold water.

hi

i have used unboiled wtare at that age and she didn't come to any harm i think the main thing is that the formula may not dissolve

you could make the feed up in two halves and hold them under the running tap to cool them quicker, or put them in a bowl of ice cubes

from 12 months you can use cows milk anyway amd stop sterilizing so i donlt think the risk of infection is that high anymore as their immune system is stronger

Did you mean 11 months? Or is that a typo for 1? If you've been boiling all the water for 11 months I'm impressed.

I stopped boiling the water at 3 months and stopped sterilising at 4 months. And I'm not going to sterilise at all next time.

Almost ready for full-fat cows milk maybe (in an emergency)??

Get some ice and put it in a bowl with cold water and stick bottle of boiled water in bowl, it will cool pretty quickly.

You can use ice-pops as emergency cool-packs and then just refreeze them...

put a bottle of boiled water in a washing up bowl of cold water with ice cubes if you have them. The bottle will be cool in less than 10mn. Ask how I know that, LOL.

My sister's a paediatrician and never uses boiled water and never sterilizes anything!! Washes bottles in same bowl as all the other plates etc. She has 4 very healthy kids.

Good point! She eats all the crap on the floor she can find! have fed her with tap-water bottle and put her to bed.

Funny you should say that, db's new partner told me that she was advised by a paediatrician in France not to bother sterilizing things.

lots of countries don't sterilise things. just use the dishwasher.

after 6 months in the UK you don't have to boil water.

The dishwasher is a steriliser. In any case, hot soapy water and air-drying is just as good as sterilising. Here is the famous thread. Scroll down to RTK's post of Fri 08-Sep-06 22:46:27 to see email from the microbiologists at UCH.