Heating and cooling bottles when out and about- how best to do it?

[Anon501178]

3rd baby but first two were pretty much exclusively breastfed.Really want to combination feed this time for various reasons.
Have basic knowledge of prepping bottle feeds but how on earth do people manage out and about- heating, cooling bottles all at once? (As know the water has to go in fresh and boiling)
I can just envisage myself or DH with a screaming baby, trying not to spill boiling water everywhere then trying to placate baby for ages whilst (somehow?) Trying to cool it down? Know there are flasks to store the boiling water in, but how do people manage the cooling process promptly and easily as possible whilst out and about?
I know cafes can provide jugs of cold water etc to cool bottles down in, but what about if say DH took baby for a walk for example and they needed a feed?

Ah yes, good point that it will last 2hrs once prepared i hadn't thought about that aspect.

Mine kids are older now, but I used fill the bottles with cooled boiled water,, then just add the formula when needed and feed at room temp. Probs questionable by today’s standards though 😬

For my one who was formula fed, I simply anticipated when she’d need a feed. It’s good for 2 hours after it’s made. So for example, if we were going to a baby group and she always has a feed about that time, I’d make it up before we left the house, 20 minute drive and then sometime in the first 30 minutes of class she’d want a feed, so it would be cool enough by then.

Once she got a bit older and was having a larger feed, not the tiny 90ml ones, I’d take a bottle of ready made as she’d drink the whole thing and at room temp.

I think it was common to do it that way pre-2000 but there have since been outbreaks of things like salmonella and ecoli from the powered milk so now people are more cautious about killing any bacteria.

Yes i used to work in a nursery 2006-2014- when I started the parents sent in the cooled boiled water in bottles, for the day, with little pots of powder to add, but it changed during the time i was there to the water having to be boiled fresh for each feed then cooled down.Was soo much quicker and easier the first way, but obviously not good if a health hazard.