Bottle feeding newborn - bedroom 2nd floor. Easy way?

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We have just had a baby, we ljve in a town house and our bedroom is on the 2nd floor, so 2 flights of stairs.
I have had a c section, dh goes back to work Monday.
Im still unable to do much especially down 2 flights every 3-4hrs for milk.

Is the bottle prep machine the only solution? What about the amount of sterilised bottles i need?

There must be a solution

The perfect prep would certainly go a long way toward helping if you're comfortable using it - I love mine and seriously considered getting another for upstairs when I stopped breastfeeding, but she stopped drinking as much through the night around the same time so we didn't bother.

In terms of sterilising bottles, what about a cheap microwave steriliser? You can then take a full batch upstairs (or someone could bring them to you) in the tub thing that you sterilise them in with the lid on and just take them out as you need.

Good luck!

You could also set up your kettle and steriliser in your bedroom or hallway if you have room? I mean, im super lazy so id prob get DH to sort me a little station with drinks and snacks too 😃
I never had a perfect prep as read many horror stories but it could be helpful! Have you got a sink where you could wash them up too?

It's a temporary situation as you'll feel better within a couple of weeks so have you tried the premade bottles at room temperature? My DD was as happy to drink formula cold as warm so if yours is too that would be a very easy solution for a couple of weeks overnight. Obviously a bit more expensive but might be worth it.

Honestly, we just got used to doing a lot of stairs when we were in our townhouse with a newborn. The only issue I had was that as DS grew older I found it was waking me up more as I had to go from the our bedroom on the top floor, down 2 flights of stairs to the kitchen, heat the bottle then walk up to the middle floor and then back up again to our room. We've moved house (to another 3 storey home but all the bedrooms are on one floor and the kitchen is on the middle one) and I'm noticing with DD I fall asleep much more easily as I'm not up and down the stairs all the time!

For what it's worth I had a really difficult physical recovery from our son's birth so my DH had to accept that even after he went back to work I needed him to help with going downstairs for a few weeks (and then he went straight back to sleep while I did the feeding, changing etc). Would your dh consider this as a temporary arrangement while you heal?

Take up a flask with boiling water and one with cool boiled water, then just do the same as the prep would do, I usually just covered the formula with hot water and then topped with cool. It's quicker than the prep.

To start with for the first few weeks we used pre made formula which my Son was happy to take at room temp.

After that we got a prep machine for the bedroom, it really did make things much easier!
How do you make your bottles now? If using the kettle could you pick up a cheap kettle to keep in your room and fill up a big bottle with water before bed to fill it up if it runs out?

For sterilised bottles - once they've been sterilised if you make the bottles up straight away they stay sterile for 24hrs so I would just take enough up with you

I was lazy - had a tea tray with sterilised bottle, carton of pre made milk, scissors flask with hot water and a jug. Took lid off bottle pour in milk and heat in the jug with boiled water from flask. Only had one feed in night if I remember right. Something like 10 when I went to bed then 4 then morning at 7 ish so I needed one carton of pre made.

Ready made. You'll be up and about soon. Even better if you can get baby to take it at room temp.

I agree with the previous suggestion, get the ready made cartons and hope your baby will take them at room temperature- that's what I did - no faffing about at all.

In the early months when it was just a couple of oz every 2-3 hours I’d premake the bottles with hot water but less. So if it was a 4oz feed I’d put 2oz of hot water instead of 4oz and then 4 scoops of formula, shake, and flash cool. Then leave in the fridge until bed time…

At bedtime I’d put the bottles in a cool bag with big ice blocks, then take it upstairs with a flask of hot water. When my baby would wake, id just top the bottles up with an extra 2oz from the hot flask and it would be the perfect temp. Bottle ready within 30 seconds! Basically what a prep machine does but without the expense and is much quicker! Tommy tippee do a great flask where you just push a button and the water pours. It’s about a tenna.

when baby started waking for just 1 feed a night and taking more ounces I’d take a sterilised bottle up and use a premade carton.

I was in a town house too with our bedrooms on the top floor and in the first week I was going downstairs numerous times in the night to make a bottle and it just wasn’t sustainable. There are ways around it op, you all need your sleep and it’s best to get the milk into baby ASAP, before they wake up properly, rather than having baby get used to being awake and alert numerous times during the night :)