Question about rapid cool??

[Ttc2025]

Second time mum here, first time I used the perfect prep machine , not sure I want to use it again dc1 had awful relux, (cant partially blame it as it lasted well past 14months but still)

was thinking of getting a rapid cool but it confuses me a bit , do you sterile it every time if your just using water? Do you rinse off Milton after soaking ??

what’s the difference in it and having a bottle of pre boiled and cooled water and doing a “hot shot” from the kettle to make a bottle?

can you just have boiled water in a bottle, add formula and then cooled boiled water instead ? Do you need to wait the full 30minutes? Like how can you predict when your newborn will feed they can’t be expected to wait 30minutes??

really confused on how to make formula without a prep machine it confuses me so much (like am I stupid it can’t be that hard 🥲)

I think the Prep Machine has made people think that making a bottle the normal way is difficult, it’s really not, you’re probably overthinking it OP. There are lots of videos from midwives and HV on TikTok and I’m sure YouTube which show the correct way to make a bottle.

I also used a prep machine with my first, he had horrible reflux and having read a lot about the correlation between reflux and prep machines, I won’t be using one for this baby and plan on getting a rapid cool too.

My DS always preferred a bottle in my mums which was made the normal way too and I found it seemed less gassy but that could be just in my head 😬

I think they no longer recommend using boiling water as it can kill off the nutrients in the formula as well as any bacteria, so the advice as far as I’m aware is boiling the kettle and leaving it for no longer than 30 minutes, (so long as the water is 70 degrees it kills off any bacteria) adding it to bottle and then your formula and cooling it under the tap or in a jug of cool water until it’s at a suitable temperature. I always checked on my wrist and never had any issues.

With the rapid cool, you can do a hot shot method which means you don’t need to sterilise it after every use as you’re not putting the formula into it.

You might find this useful
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/breastfeeding-and-bottle-feeding/bottle-feeding/making-up-baby-formula/

In terms of sterilisation, I didn’t rinse after using the cold water method. Just shook it off and left it to dry.

@BroomAdventures thank you for your reply ☺️

Tbh I'm not sure if I do it correctly but:
I pour the right total amount of freshly boiled water in oz / ml for the full feed i.e. 210ml for 7oz formula into baby bottle. At night I use water from a Chillys bottle I've boiled and brought upstairs before bed.
Pour that water into the rapidcool, leaving approx 1oz in the baby bottle as the hotshot. Add formula powder to baby bottle and swirl whilst turning the rapidcool upside down a few times until it goes green.
Once green, add rapidcool water back into baby bottle and test to make sure it's not too hot.

Obviously the more you leave in the baby bottle for the hotshot, the hotter the final bottle will be. I've had to run it under cold water once or twice but most of the time it's ready to go!

Like I say, not sure if that's correct but it's how I was told to do it if not putting the formula mix into the rapidcool. This means the rapidcool doesn't need sterilising, I just rinse with soapy water every couple of days or so.

Hope that helps!

I have never used the rapid cool so can’t really comment on it. I didn’t like that could only use it once when out before needing to find more hot boiled water.

The system that we went for is having glass bottles of cooled boiled water in the fridge. If home doing a “hot shot” of a few ounces of hot boiled water with formula and then the rest of the ounces of the cold boiled water from fridge.

Then when out we bought 2 flasks. 1 with hot boiled water and 1 with cold boiled water to replicate the same method. Our flask would keep the hot water hot enough to kill any bacteria for about 6/7 hours.

I found this way you can make a bottle when the baby needs it that the baby can drink k straight away instead of waiting to cool.

my understanding is that you can add boiling water into it, then add formula and shake until the light is green. sterilise after every use - you cannot use it for a few hours after sterilising. I use it now and again.

My method for making a quick bottle is: boil the water and add it to the bottle immediately, then with a good thermometer check the temperature until 70-73 degrees (it takes less than 5 minutes if the bottle is dipped into a bowl with cold water), add the formula and shake then back into the bowl with cold water. the bottles take less than 10 minutes to be ready to drink. no issues with my DC.

You can make the bottle with boiling water and formula, once mixed you can then pour it into the rapid cool and shake to bring to the perfect temperature. For that method you would need more than one as have to clean between uses. We had a perfect prep which we used from 8 months when I stopped breastfeeding, DD had reflux from 6 weeks, so was nothing to do with the perfect prep.

the water temp has to be around 70 degrees before mixing to save the nutrients in the formula. apparently the rapid cooler bears that in mind so you can mix boiling water in the rapid cooler

Ah I didn't know that, to be fair we had a dairy free formula which could be made with cool water and didn't require the hot shot

For home, I really recommend a formula kettle. Boil and set to the right temperature in the morning. Make fresh each time, pop into cold water to cool down.

uneeqbaby.com/products/bottle-maker-formula-prop-machine

this looks flipping amazing!