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Formula

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Angeliki159 · 31/08/2018 13:58

I know this might be a stupid question but I have been told different things by HV and midwife etc...

If I am going out for the day, how do I deal with formula?
HV said - boil the kettle, leave to cool for 15 mins, pour into bottles and add formula. Put in fridge and when ready to use (when out) stand in hot water to warm.

Midwife said - never make the formula in advance. If you go out, take empty bottle and powder formula. Make the bottle up when ready to use, with cooled boiled water and heat by standing in hot water.

If you go out, what do you do with formula?

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arbrighton · 31/08/2018 14:09

You need the hot water to sterilise the formula

Most people I know take a flask of hot water out, use that and shake powder then top up with cool boiled (another flask) or use ready made

mrkaykay · 31/08/2018 14:11

Initially we used pre made when out.
Then we started batch making them and would take a bottle we had made up out in a cool nag with an ice pack.

Sleeplikeasloth · 31/08/2018 17:16

Batch make, and take out in an insulated bag. We did that for all bottles.

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Helpmemyhairisterrible · 31/08/2018 17:21

I use two little flasks. Fill one the night before with boiling water. This gives you cooled boiled water to top up bottles with. In the morning, boiled water in the second flask. Hot water to sterilise the milk powder. Take a three compartment pot and you have enough formula to be out all day.

IMHO, it's not a good idea to make a full day's bottles in advance. If you have contaminated the bottles accidentally between sterilising and filling, bacteria has all day to breed. Making fresh is less wasteful too. Mine both reject milk that's been sitting for any longer than an hour or two. It's almost as if they know.

dementedpixie · 31/08/2018 17:25

Take a sterilised bottle and a carton of ready made formula

PrincessConsuelaBannanaHammock · 31/08/2018 17:27

Agree with dementedpixie
The ready made bottles are more expensive but so much easier when going out

dementedpixie · 31/08/2018 17:29

The alternatives are

take hot water in an insulated bag and measured out powder to add when required or
take a ready made bottle of formula that has been chilled in the fridge. Keep it in a cool bag with ice pack and it's ok for 4 hours.
ready made carton with sterilised bottle

gilmoregal · 31/08/2018 17:29

I'll usually take a bottle freshly made out with me in an insulated bottle bag if he'll be having it within an hour, and then the ready made little bottles for the rest of the day or if feed isn't due for a while.

dementedpixie · 31/08/2018 17:32

www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/infant-formula-questions/#what-if-i-need-to-transport-a-made-up-feed - nhs info

Sleeplikeasloth · 31/08/2018 21:54

Helpmemyhairisterrible, to use them straight out of the steriliser, and then you are pouring boiling water into them anyway, which adds a second layer of protection. Sterilisation is itself just a precaution (that many countries don't bother with).

The make it up in advance method is listed as an appropriate technique by the WHO (not the 'safest' but certainly 'safe') and we had zero problems using this method even from when our baby was a newborn. We took them out in insulated bags every day, as we're out and about all the time.

Iwantaunicorn · 31/08/2018 23:09

I wash the bottles thoroughly, sterilise, make them up with boiling water, chuck them in the insulated pocket of the changing bag and go. As pp said, they’ve been sterilised and any bacteria in the milk has been killed by the boiling water, I don’t see how any germs can get in!

dementedpixie · 31/08/2018 23:13

I hope you are cooling them before putting made up milk in an insulated bag. You can either take hot water or cold milk not the other way round

Lazypuppy · 31/08/2018 23:17

I make all bottles with boiling water at njght before i go to bed then heat in the microwave when i need them during the day, or my LO will have the milkncold which makes it a lot easier.

I either take a cold bottle to heat up or heat a bottle in the microwave before leaving (just has to be used within 2hrs) and keep both in an insulated bottle holder to keep hot/cold

Lazypuppy · 31/08/2018 23:19

I don't even sterilise the bottles anymore now she's over 6 months

TroubledLichen · 31/08/2018 23:24

Unless your LO is on special prescription formula then just save yourself the faff and use ready made. Chuck a sterilised bottle and a formula carton in your bag and you’re good to go.

Celiasausage · 01/09/2018 19:39

Ready made all the way. Well worth the extra money for less faff. We ended up using ready made all the time just because the Dr browns bottles leaked everywhere when we shook them with powdered formula. Saved our sanity though.

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