Formula feeding help

[esunny]

Hello!

im due to give birth soon and will be formula feeding. I’ve bought the formula prep 70ml bottles with the teets for the hospital. What did you all do when you got home? Did you transition straight to the formula powder big boxes and your own bottles? (I have mam bottles) And were you only making one ounce? Thank you from a very confused mum to be! Xx

In theory you can continue to use the ready made bottles, and in the early days they're very easy especially for the middle of the night but they are quite expensive.

You can either make up bottles using the reusable plastic mam ones you have using boiling water and cooling in a jug or...most people of formula feed use a perfect prep machine in the mam bottles, as it makes a bottle at the perfect temperature. The minimum you can make on those is a 4oz bottle, but you just offer that to baby and discard the remaining feed.

Hope that helps

Should add....you'll need to steralise the mam bottles before use.

I did the same and yes went on to making bottles with powder when we got home, we use a nuby rapid cool so can make as many oz as you want but generally when they're little feed as they need and you'll end up disguarding unused formula. You can keep for an hour if they've started drinking it.

We used the ready-made bottles (without the teats) for night feeds and ones with the teats for out and about for first few weeks.

I used what I had left of those 70ml bottles for the first few days. Then I went onto the ready to feed bottles you can buy in the supermarket for convenience. You just pour them into your sterile MAM bottles. There's 200ml in the ones I use but once opened they keep in the back of the fridge for 24 hours so just pour what you need. Then finally when I felt out of the haze I started making the powder formula.

This sounds good I think I’ll do this! How did you warm up the ready made 200ml bottles? Xx

You can just stand the bottle in a Pyrex jug of hot water.

Just pop the bottle in a jug of hot water for a few mins. Just be careful with the MAM bottles you have to unscrew the lid first because they can take on water through airflow holes in the bottom if you dont.