HOW TO GIVE BABY A BOTTLE OUT AND ABOUT

[Hollie257]

first time mum here and overwhelmed - we are formula feeding our baby using kendamil, how do you guys formula feed when out and about? Thanks!!

I used to take an empty bottle and a carton/small bottle of ready made formula and poured it into the bottle when required

The ready made cartons are the easiest but if you want a cheaper option - I used to take two small flasks out with me, one with hot boiled water in and one with cooled boiled water and do a roughly 1:4 split of hot:cold for use with the formula powder.

Measure the scoops of powder in to a baby milk scoop storer. Take a flask of boiling water. When the baby needs their bottle add the boiling water, then the scoops. Cool by either adding cold water to the lid of the flask and putting the bottle in the lid, asking for a jug of cold water if you’re in a cafe or cool by using a nuby rapid cool. Hope that helps 💛

1. ready made formula.
2. using powder, take a flask of boiling water and a cooling bottle. Measure out and let cool in the cooling bottle then transfer.

Everyone I see using formula out and about either uses the ready to drink poured into in a sterilised bottle or a rapid cool flask and a flask of hot water, with the powder in premeasured tub.

[Mum of Four]

Best answer: try and be at home for feeds. Makes life generally easier. Organise yourself to go out between feeds (while baby is asleep) where possible.

Next easiest: If you are out, correctly made formula can last 2h outside of the fidge. So aim to feed within 2h of leaving home.

Next easiest: take sterile bottles and pre-made sealed cartons of formula.

And if all else fails, take powder and a couple if sterile bottles. Go in a cafe to get boiling water. Make up feed wherever you are, run under cold tap to cool.

Easiest by far just to be uber well planned and scheduled. Have everything ready to leave. Wait for baby to have a big feed, as soon as done, wind and leave straight away. Take a dummy to get you though and try to be back home by next feed.

nuby rapid cool or if you know baby will be hungry within 2 hours, make up fresh before going and it will be ready to drink when they get hungry.

Can you pre make bottles of formula and put them in the Tomee tipee black pouches to keep warm? So many things say don’t make a feed in advance??

Also the ready made kendamil comes in 250ml bottles if I take one out with me and my baby usually only drinks about 70ml per feed at the moment then I am wasting the rest of the bottle and have to throw it away?

No, you can take a chilled bottle of formula milk or a hot bottle of water plus measured out powder unless you plan to use the made up bottle formula within 2 hours

It's best practice to make up bottles as you need them. But it is not unsafe to make in advance.

You can make up bottles in advance and safely store on the back of the fridge for 24h. Or unrefidgerated for 2h.

You could get the starter pack that comes with 70ml bottles. Or if you open and pour the bigger bottle into 2 bottles you could keep the other one cool using a cool bag with ice packs and it'll be ok to use within 4 hours.

You’ve posted several threads tonight with capitalised titles and you seem to be feeling very anxious - completely normal with a newborn. Post as much as you like and hopefully you’ll get helpful advice on the various topics but do you have a health visitor you’re in touch with or any friends or relatives who’ve recently had babies who you could talk to as well? A proper chat can be so reassuring when things are new and you’re finding your feet.

I wouldn't take a formula bottle out and about warm. It won't stay hot enough to avoid the danger zone.

It's OK to make them up in advance with hot water, and then cool quickly and store in the fridge then take the cooled bottle out with you, using an ice pack or insulated pouch to keep it cool. I think that would be much easier than trying to keep it over 60C.

It's not bad to mix brands if you want to use a ready made carton/bottle from another brand which offer smaller sizes.

We used either a Nuby rapid cool or had bottles of the pre made formula.

Have a look at these, we used these in the first week of bringing baby home.

https://www.boots.com/kendamil-classic-1-first-infant-milk-ready-to-feed-from-birth-70ml-6s-10316357?srsltid=AfmBOoqTJAHPJeQtUpRhPDUTBVFFE84EmX-81zWHGhMozhM32NtSZVyh

We’ve bought the 70ml bottles but just seems expensive way of doing it compared to the big tubs of powder formula

This. Nuby cool allows you to make as much formula as you need with powder and avoid wastage. I couldn’t do it any differently now.

I make up 6 bottles every evening and then heat up as needed, if out and about the baby has it at room temperature or I ask for a jug of hot water.

Yes we used to do this! 😀👍🩷

Nuby Rapid cool looks ace! Theres something called rapidcool, it's like a flask but gets the water to the perfect safe temperature for the baby.