Formula question when out & about?

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So DD2 is now on C&G comfort, they don't do the ready made cartons in this formula so my question is what do people do when they go out for the day?
I would take a flask of boiling water but apparently it only lasts about 4 hours & secondly we use the MAM anti colic bottles & some people have said you can't stand them in cool water anyway due to the air holes. A couple of people have said you can stand them in water but you'd just have to take the teat section off I'm not sure how true this is.

Can anyone help?

I use to leave half cooled boiled water and top up the other half with boiling water and add the formula. Most places were happy to top up with boiling water.

I just made them up in advance, kept them in the fridge at home, and popped them in an insulated bag to take out.

Make them up in advance, then get boiling water wherever we are to warm them up. We also had a Tommee tippee flask to warm bottles up.
You can stand mam bottles up in water as long as you take the lid off.

I used mam bottles. I used to take 5oz cooled boiled water in a sterilised bottle plus a spare, then when I needed a bottle making I’d put 2oz boiling water in the empty bottle (either from a kettle or from my tommee tippee flask that kept water above 70 degrees for at least 8 hours) add the powder and then the water from the other bottle. Sounds a faff but really isn’t and means the bottle is the right temperature straight away.

Mine are 6 months now, and I just make up the formula at the start of the day and sling the bottles (upright!) in the changing bag. Feed babies as and when required!

I never bothered heating them up, just room temperature. I make it with boiling water at the start of the day.

@Iwantaunicorn

Sorry to butt in, but how long can you leave them at room temperature for? My bottles are kept refrigerated and either one is taken out to get to room temp for the next feed or a couple are taken out (in tommee tippee insulated bag thing) for the day.

I'm a bit worried I've let them for too long at room temp and baby is getting upset tummy (possibly colic)

We can't get ready made formula where we are.
We put water into the bottles premeasured and took out formula powder in little pots premeasured also and just mixed the 2 together come feeding times. Although I understand that this is probably against "all the rules". I became a lot more lax about it when I realised the day care has a rule whereby a made up bottle can be reheated once a day and consumed any time in the day after making e.g. a bottle could be made first thing at 7:30 and finished last thing at 5:30 according to their policies and guidelines. I figured their guidelines must be classed as safe or the daycare would be in trouble by now, especially as it is part of a very large chain in this country.
We have also never given warm bottles at all throughout her entire life , we boil the kettle and then let the water cool in its own covered container and use it until it runs out and repeat.
I'll pop a bottle in the fridge if I think it will be a couple of hours or so until her next feed but won't worry about it if out and about.

DS is on C&G anti-reflux, we struggle with this out & about as the longer you leave it the thicker it gets! We have now started taking pre-measured cold water (boiled obviously) in bottles & asking for boiling water wherever we are to top it up to however much we need before adding the formula. It obviously depends where you are but if we go out for the day we usually just find a cafe or something for a drink stop; have yet to find one that isn't happy to top up the water for us

You can cool the mam bottles in water if you take the lid of first. Stops them sucking water in the holes

I do the same as a PP. Tommee Tippee flask filled with boiling water, normal bottle filled with right amount of cold, little pot of powder. (We have a Perfect Prep so I use that for measuring the cold and the kettle for the boiling as I know how much I need.)

The TT flask has a big lid thing for warming bottles in, so I tip the cold into there, put the boiling into the bottle and add the powder. Then tip the cold in and it's ready to go. It sounds like a faff but it isn't at all. Did it with DD and now with DS!

@CoodleMoodle I also did that method with my first. Perfect prep wasn't around then. I like to think I basically invented the prep machine

@feltpens I sterilise everything and make them up in the morning, then they’re on the side for 10 hours or so.

When they were newborn I made them up for every feed just after finishing a feed so they’d be on the side for 2-3 hours. Once they started sleeping through the night I’d make up a bottle and leave it for 7 hours, took me a while to work out that that was fine, and started making feeds in batches of 2 (so on the side for 6 hours or so) then really got it and started doing the days worth once we started going out for whole day trips!

I have no scientific/medical training or anything, but thought that if the bottle is sterilised, the water is boiled, and the bottle is sealed, there’s no germs that can get in, and anything in the milk is killed. I know it goes against guidelines, but it’s working for us.

One of my DTs had colic, the other did not. I don’t think it made a blind bit of difference, I tried just made, and leaving them out and the poor lad still had it.

They’re 6 months now.

Thanks all, these comments are very helpful - Iess faff the better in my opinion.