Novice question regarding warming up baby bottles when on an outing!

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So I'm due in April with my first baby.
Have been purchasing SMA, and have also been treated to the Tommee Tippee Perfect Prep Machine by my partner. I bought a Tommee Tippee sterilizer too.

A few days ago I suddenly had a thought and felt so silly. I feel silly asking it but I'm a complete novice!

When your out.. How do you feed baby?!
Do I make up the bottles beforehand, and reheat them when out? I know certain places have the microwaves to warm baby bottles. Can you reheat the milk once it's gone cool?
Or can you give them the cool milk?
Or what if I'm out somewhere that doesn't have the heating facilities?!
I can't believe I didn't think about this before!
Please don't judge me!

You can buy ready made bottles which are a more expensive way of doing it but so easy. If you make a bottle at home it's good for two hours out of the fridge. Mine drank cool milk but it depends on your baby, it won't hurt them but it's personal taste. A cafe will give you a cup of hot water if you ask, to sit the bottle in to warm it up.

There are a few ways of doing it. Take out steralised bottles and tip in 'ready to feed' formula when you're ready to use it.

Make up powdered formula before you leave, but then you're limited to two hours.

Put the water for the bottle into a steralised bottle and then add the powder when out to make up the bottle.

Thank you! I'll look into the ready made bottles and see how much they are etc.
So if they are ok out of the fridge for around 2 hours does this mean that any time after that, they're not really safe to be reheated?

Thank you zsazsa!

I never warmed bottles when out. DD just drank it at room temp.

(And I used the mini cartons as it wasn't that frequent)

I would make at home then pop in a little bottle sized cool bag with a cold pack, then when needed warm by dunking in hot water, Tommy tippee do something useful :
www.traveloutdoors.co.uk/tommee-tippee-closer-to-nature-travel-bottle-warmer/?gclid=CNy0n47RzcMCFW7KtAodUwwA_A

You might get told that you 'have' to make up milk with 70 degree water to 'kill the bugs', as milk powder isn't sterile. This is factually true, but I never ever bothered - did room temp boiled water, and powder, and just combined when needed.

Powder dissolves slightly better in warmish water, IME, but otherwise, I couldn't see what the fuss was about. Nothing else my DD put in her mouth was sterile, including trolley handles, her hands and feet, and random toys, so I ignored that one. Makes it easier to get out for the day without panicking about milk, so hopefully that helps!

Thankyou humptydumpty I didn't think of it in that way!

0ddsocks I must have baby brain. I remember seeing that in Asda/Mothercare! I'm going to have a proper read about that, thanks

You take out a flask of hot water, and powder pre measured in a travel powder pot . Add water, add powder, allow to cool down.

Or pre made cartons but they do cost more

WHO advice on preparing formula:

www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/micro/PIF_Bottle_en.pdf

Quote: "(Formula) may contain bacteria that a cause serious illness".

Not advice to be sniffed at in my opinion. Very hot water into powder is a must IMHO. You can still make the up advance, but do make them with very hot water.

My Dd used prescription forumula so the cartons weren't an option for me.

I used a variety of strategies depending on where we were going.

Places we knew i would ask for boiling water and a jug of ice. I would make up the bottle there and flash cool. Not everywhere allows that weirdly as they are funny about handing out boiling water. M&s use flasks specially for this purpose though.

I also used a flask if we were out somewhere without facilities and gently warmed the fridge cold bottle that way.

If you are worried about sterilising the powder try taking two flasks (you can get little ones). One with boiling water and one with cooled boiled water. Make sure the total equals the total volume you would need e.g. 40ml boiling and 40ml cooled boiled. Add the powder to the boiling to sterilise then add cooled boiled to make it immediately drinkable.

I struggled with giving Dd bottles out as I was constantly convinced I was being judged for not bf or for how I made the bottles. In hindsight no one gave a monkeys

Oh, also if we were going out for lunch say then I made the bottle immediately before leaving the house and pop in an insulated bag. When we got to destination and dd was ready I would ask for ice and cool it that way.

Can you tell i overthought this?!

HumptyDumptyBumpty I did it the same way as you. Made up bottles with room temp boiled water and just added the powder when needed. I got a nifty powder pot thing off ebay so I could add the right amount of powder to the pot and then just pour it straight into the bottle when I needed to.

I never made them up with hot boiling water.

Oh! There's a facebook group called 'The Fearless Formula Feeder' and accompanying blog called the same thing that you might find useful.

www.fearlessformulafeeder.com/

It's vital that they are made with hot water, people will say they never bothered and did them no harm but that's just luck. Not worth the risk imo when it's easy to do it properly especially as you have your perfect prep machine.

Once out of the fridge it's good for two hours then needs to be discarded. Lasts a bit longer in a coolbag.

Please please make them with boiling water.

I used to serve mine at room temp, but always made them with hot water.

We have tommee tippee insulated bottle cosies. (Black outside, silver inside with a zip lid). Hot kettle water in bottles is still nice and warm when needed. We then tip in pre measured powder from a dispenser.

Thank you everyone it's really helped! There's so much to take into consideration. But I understand boiling water is a must so I'll definitely keep that in mind x

I had a tommee Tipee flask and you could use the outer case to pour the water into to heat the bottle up. Best £10 as the water stayed warm for ages.

Thanks, I looked at the Tommee Tippee Bottle warmer earlier and think I'll be purchasing!! X

Just a quick word to say please don't heat baby bottles in a microwave. It can create hot spots.

Either make it up before you go and it's good for 2 hours or take a clean, sterilised bottle and a carton...much easier and no worrying about the time.

Another vote here for making bottles per instructions (hot water). There may be germs on stuff your baby touches but milk powder can carry specific, harmful germs. Think of it this way, you probably come across all sorts of germs as an adult in daily life, but you'd still make sure your chicken was properly cooked! Oh and the Perfect Prep machine was brilliant - best bit of baby kit that I bought.

The other thing to consider is don't necessarily 'stock up' on a certain brand of milk. I bf mine but know a lot of friends whose babies would only take a certain brand and it might not be what you've bought lots of! We were the same with nappies - DD hated anything other than pampers. :(

Mini cartons and if dc won't take them at room temperature, carry them in your bra close to your body so they're body temperature.