Bottle feeding at night.

[ruky2020]

Hi i have 3 week old baby and I am doing bottle feeding but what is the quickest way of making night feeds?.

Aptimil ready made (don’t have teats) come in 200ml sizes and you pour out into your own actual feeding bottle however much you need and the rest goes in the fridge in the aptimil container and can be kept for 24 hours. If using for next feed you take out of fridge and stick in a bowl of hot water for 5 mins.

I always boiled kettle. Leave for 30mins. Pour in water.

Keep room temp. Add formula when needed. Shake and serve

We used ready made at night when newborn as didn't take as much then used the perfect prep machine.

Ready made... room temp, job done

I always boiled kettle. Leave for 30mins. Pour in water.
Keep room temp. Add formula when needed. Shake and serve

The problem with this is you shouldn’t add formula to cool water, it should be 70 degrees C. The powder isn’t sterile and there’s a (small) chance of it containing bacteria, which would be killed off if you use hot water. But not boiling water because that’s too hot...

This is why I used ready made exclusively. It’s expensive but sterile and zero faff.

Now, we take one bottle to bed and then a ready made for during the night, but ready made would have been very expensive when he was a newborn and feeding every 2 hours.

The best thing we invested in was a Tommee Tippee Prep Machine. You can pick them up on eBay or Facebook Market Place very cheap. Just give it a good clean down and follow the instructions to do a descale and add new filter.

Honestly I couldn't have coped without it. Before bed, I'd add the powder to his bottles and seal with the lid. Then I just had to stick it under the prep machine when he woke. Perfect temperature bottle in less than a minute.

@Haworthia
All 3 kids still alive 😅

Perfect prep machine. Bottle in 2 minutes, at ideal temp.

Best advice I ever had was to only ever give room temp milk - no need to warm up.

Thank you for the replies , will be trying it out and sees what works best for me and baby during night time feeds.

People will not agree but I boiled a kettle of water, waited until it was cool enough to drink and poured it into a flask. Then just added the water to the bottle with the powder as needed. This will not sterilise the powder but as long as you're careful to keep the scoop clean and dry, harmful bacteria cannot grow in dry powder. 20 years ago it was never advised to sterilise the powder and the amount of babies that got ill was absolutely tiny. Now the formula companies have to say to do that to avoid a court case if anything did happen.

@btbtbt

People will not agree but I boiled a kettle of water, waited until it was cool enough to drink and poured it into a flask. Then just added the water to the bottle with the powder as needed. This will not sterilise the powder but as long as you're careful to keep the scoop clean and dry, harmful bacteria cannot grow in dry powder. 20 years ago it was never advised to sterilise the powder and the amount of babies that got ill was absolutely tiny. Now the formula companies have to say to do that to avoid a court case if anything did happen.

I do bottle feeding at night and use a flask but feel like when I'm making a bottle the water is still hot and i need to cool it down and that takes at least 5 minutes. Maybe I need to try your way that would seem better as I have a 2 year old as well.

I used to sterilise the bottles, boil a kettle and pour into 3 or 4 bottles, leave to cool on side. I would then add powder just before use at room temperature. This was 12 years ago and never heard of any problems.

Perfect prep!

Perfect prep is such a time saver and sooooo worth the money xx