Pre made formula bottles

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Which pre made formula bottles can you recommend? And how many did you take to hospital? I looked at the pre made kendamil ones on the boots website but says in the description you have to heat them up? Is that true? Seems a bit pointless.

You can drink the aptamil cold. I'm in Ireland but in our hospitals, they give you the formula in the hospitals. Is it different in the UK? Im presuming you are uk based? Apologies if not.

Yeah I’m in Scotland! When I had my son the options were v limited but that was 5 years ago so may have changed now.

All formula is made from the same ingredients and contains the same vitamins. Everything else is just branding. So just buy the cheapest/most convenient one. Some babies prefer it warmed up but you can give it cold. Hopefully there is a tea room with a kettle on the ward. You could sit the bottle in a cup or bowl of hot water briefly to warm it.

We've been using kendamil premade bottles at night and we don't heat them up

I found aptamil is great. Small 70ml bottles, can buy pack of 24 online and baby drink them cold. My daughter is 11 weeks and she likes hot and cold. You could also get the tommee tippee portable heater and heat if you wanted to. Its quite compact

They can be served at room temperature or heated

This just isn’t correct at all. All formula MUST contain the same minimum ingredients and nutritional requirements but they can all have other things added. The protein sources differ, some have palm oil some don’t, some have extra iron some don’t, some are organic some aren’t, the way they are made can be different, Kendall uses whole milk, Hipp uses skim milk. The list goes on and on. That’s why some babies do better on some formulas than on others

Dependsvhow long you will be in hospital after the birth.
I took 20 sma bottles with me and the hospital provided the teats they fitted perfectly on the little bottles.
We was in 5 days and I had enough milk along with breastfeeding.

Ds1 and ddil use the ready made kendamil formula at night, for their twins, and don’t heat it up. They make up formula to use during the day, and do heat that up, because it is refrigerated, but the ready made doesn’t need to be refrigerated until after it’s opened, so they feed it at room temperature.

I use kendamil and don’t always warm it. on their website it says “Serve at room temperature, or warmed if desired. If warmed, check temperature of feed.”

If it’s been in the fridge I often let it sit out a couple minutes to get closer to room temperature

We brought aptamil pre made bottles in with us but it turned out the hospital had a big stock of cow and gate pre made bottles so we just used those and kept the aptamil for home.

You don’t need to warm it although your baby might not drink it cold, mine wouldn’t. You can buy packs for hospital that come with sterilised teats which are more convenient.

All formula brands have to have the same vitamins etc but their recipes are not all the same. My baby did not get on at all with Kendamil. Best advice from my health visitor was to go to the shop you use the most and start off with the formula that they stock.

We used cow and gate - the hospital actually provided these (we had packed cow and gate bottles and tommee Tippee bottles but the hospital provided us ones where the bottle already has a sterile tear attached so never used our stash). Cow and gate can be had room temperature or warmed (we soon found dd would only take it super warm - even in a heat wave)

One bit of advice I would suggest is picking a formula that is easily accessible where you live. We’ve moved since dd was on formula but our local supermarket doesn’t stock it so wouldn’t have been able to get it easily had we moved when she was still a baby.

Also, regardless of which brand, I highly recommend the teat bottles for the hospital. So much easier and you’ll already have so much to take to the hospital with you!