Formula question on holiday

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We will have our own fridge in our apartment & I was wondering whether you would make the days bottles up & store them in the fridge rather than making them & having to cool them down every time?
I don’t do this at home & I know the advice is to not do it this way but out of ease on holiday wondering if this is the better option? DD will be 10.5 months when we go.

You can buy cartons of ready made milk which are much easier if you are going abroad. The change in water may make the milk taste different anyway so we always went for cartons. Much easier if your out and about do you don’t have to rush back and forth to the fridge. They don’t need to be refrigerated unless they are open. Hope this helps.

They don’t do cartons for the formula we use which is so annoying . So I don’t have that option

She’s been on the comfort milk since 2 weeks, I’m tempted to speak to the hv to see whether we can try her on the ordinary formula which obviously do cartons.

I would use a few ounces of boiling water to dissolve the formula then top up with either cooled boiled water or bottled water depending on age of dc/your preference. You could carry the boiling water about in a flask and the other separately save keep going back to apartment.

I had a small tub of cooled boiled water like 5oz, when making a bottle I put boiling water in to 2oz, added in the 7oz powder shook. Add the cooled boiled water, and refill the tub at the same time for the next feed. Found it a whole lot easier than I thought I would - as I have perfect prep at home!

I would!

Yes that’s another way I guess, if only you could take the perfect prep eh?!

Fed on flights both ways too - air hostesses were fab and took the bottle to pour in the 2oz of boiling. If out and about I just took the cooled boiled water tub with me and asked for boiling water at cafe or hotel bar etc

The nhs website says that although it’s ideal to make them up as required, it’s ok to make them up in advance and keep them in the fridge, so I would.

Yeah it’s an amazing invention that machine! I’ll put the brand of the containers on here later as they’re fab, screw top and measurements on the side.
Also took the Milton streraliser bucket thing with sterilising tablets - packed inside with milk powder and bottles etc to save suitcase space

Thank you everyone. I shall have a think. Yes please Give that would be helpful!

Here they are - honestly brill! My Mum uses them for making up his milk when he stays there too

MAM Storage Solution (Pack of 5) (Green) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00328IHMA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_OTxUCbNZS5V6Z?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I always made all bottles the night before and put in the fridge, did the same on holiday

So I posted a few weeks back about making bottles up whilst we are on holiday. We are going in a few weeks time so thinking again about making the bottles up in our apartment.
If i chose to make them up & store them in the fridge do they have to be completely cool before putting them in the fridge or doesn’t it matter?

Anyone?

Have a look on UNICEFs website, it used to have really clear instructions. The bottles must be cooled before they go in the fridge as the bacteria doesn't grow below a certain temperature. Also if you put warm bottles into s fridge with other food you risk increasing the temperature of the fridge and spoiling the other food

Freshly made is still the ideal though.

I think they’re supposed to be flash cooled then placed in the back of the fridge (that’s the coldest part). I assume ‘flash cooling’ means either running them under a very cold tap or putting them on ice for a bit? Basically you want them to be at room temperature for as little time as possible so that bacteria can’t grow. I wouldn’t leave them out of the fridge for any length of time (other than for flash cooling).

I had the same issue as we were on Comfort milk too. Why don’t they do ready made cartons of it?? Grr