Making formula out

[jessicakxx]

If I take a flask of freshly boiled water out, one sterlie bottle and one sterile bottle with cooled boiled water, what amount of boiling water do I add to the bottle and what amount of cooled boiled water? For a 5oz feed?

First time venturing out tomorrow!

Thank you

I would have just taken a carton of formula and a sterilised bottle

Can't help you with the amounts boiled v cooled (I'm sure someone else will) but thought I'd come on and say what I did (and will do again). I would take out boiled water in a flask and the powder measured in separate tubs. I would also take a freshly made bottle and keep it in the warmer bag that came with my changing bag. By the time baby wanted a feed it had cooled perfectly. I would then make the next feed up ready (in a new bottle) , so that by the time it was needed, it would be the right temperature for the next feed, and so on 😁 x

@dementedpixie I cant unfortunately as baby is on cows milk allergy formula :(

@WingingItEveryDay7 that could be a good idea thank you xx

You either keep hot water warm or formula cold. You don't keep formula warm.

Could you experiment at home e.g. 2oz boiling and 3oz cold might work. Mix powder with hot first and then add cold

Once formula is made up it should be used within 2 hours at room temperature. If in a cool bag with ice packs it's OK for 4 hours. Once they drink from it discard after 1 hour

@dementedpixie

You either keep hot water warm or formula cold. You don't keep formula warm.

Could you experiment at home e.g. 2oz boiling and 3oz cold might work. Mix powder with hot first and then add cold

This is how I did it. Then just adjust quantities as Oz's increased. Always needed minimum 2oz boiling to safely dissolve the powder though. Sympathy, cmpa milk premade would've made life so much easier!

Why so much water?
Fill your sterilised bottles to the oz you require then take out the amount of formula you need in a formula pot?

Because if you make a full bottle with all hot water you'd need to wait for it to cool before feeding it to the baby. The powder needs water over 70⁰C to kill any bacteria in it. Adding the cool boiled water then cools it to drinking temperature

Right. Literally always made them up before hand with cool boiled water. Back in the day we used to make up the bottles ready and store in the fridge. But I guess advice is always changing

2oz hot and 3oz cold will be fine. My LO won't take a cold bottle so we can't use those premade ones unless she's prepared to wait for it to warm up in a hot jug.

And good luck with your first trip out!

Thanks all! And with the flask of boiling water, should I fill the flask with fresh boiled water - so when the kettle clicks up, Or should I leave it to cool for 30 mins in the kettle first? :-)

@PurpleTygrrr thank you! Baby is being registered tomorrow so we're going to try and make a day of it.. try being the key word :-D

It will start to cool in the flask so I'd not wait too long after it boils.

I just pre make mine with hot water, chill them, take them in a chilly bag and serve them as is.

Yep I would take freshly boiled. It will stay nice and hot in the flask! It's so nice to make a day of it when they're being registered!

Good luck for tomorrow!

For the longer term it might be worth getting a Koodi cooler koo-di.com/products/cooler

It keeps things fridge cold for 8 hours so if you make up bottles flash cool and put in the fridge before you pack in the cooler it will essentially last all day. I then also had a tommee tipper travel bottle warmer. It's more stuff to carry round but you don't have to worry about measuring water correctly on the go.

I now use the cooler to carry lunch etc for DS so still useful.

@WhoUsedMyName I’ve done this since a TA at school told us that’s how they do it in France with no ill effects. I make a bottle and keep in a bottle bag if I’m only out for a couple of hours, but use the cooled boiled water approach for full days. I’d use RTF if I could, but I haven’t found a goat one yet.

At TA at the school I work at, not one when I was at school!

@dementedpixie

I would have just taken a carton of formula and a sterilised bottle

This don't make it hard on yourself! X

@Timeturnerplease I don't think it's harmful. I think a lot of the hype maybe to make people buy RMF.

Mine won’t drink ready made so I do cool boiled water in the bottle, pre measured formula in a pot, add powder and feed. My first was a baby in the US and that’s how it’s advised to do it there, none of this formula must go in the hot water stuff. I think most other western countries say cool water is fine and it’s the U.K. is the OTT outlier.

It's not just the UK that says to use hot water. There were baby deaths in other countries linked to powdered formula containing bacteria that wasn't made with hot water and that's what prompted changes to the way it should be prepared

The World Health Organisation says to use hot water. That's not just the UK involved

We would pre-make the bottle up as normal. Then pack in a cool bag with a couple of ice packs. My mum used to make a days worth of bottles and put them in the fridge so we really weren't worried.