Anyone else feeding their baby cold milk?

[sobersadie]

We do room temp bottles. I find if u heat them it gives them more wind. Babies tend to have a preference. My first liked them warm and the 2nd 2 at room temp. In the neo natal they gave bottles at room temp. I thought if u gve srtaight from the fridge it wud chill their wee tummys and make it harder to digest.

 

[zoe0504]

Our LO takes her bottles at room temperature. We put boiled water into sterilised bottles and let it cool then keep them in a cupboard. Then it's just a case of adding the formula and we're off

This is my situation also, Oliver has never taken to warm milk, also my midwife told me it's better to do this than faf around trying to warm bottles, makes life easier for you and baby.
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[Pyrrhic]

Cold milk is harder for babies to digest. Niamhs has always been warm, and now she's older she doesn't care how it is.

 

[Pyrrhic]

Our LO takes her bottles at room temperature. We put boiled water into sterilised bottles and let it cool then keep them in a cupboard. Then it's just a case of adding the formula and we're off

This is my situation also, Oliver has never taken to warm milk, also my midwife told me it's better to do this than faf around trying to warm bottles, makes life easier for you and baby.
x x x

The World Health Organisation, and the Food Standards Agency recommends that you make the bottle up as soon as possible with boiled water. You can let it cool slightly, but ideally it should be boiling. This is because powder is not steralised, and bacteria breeds very quickly in it. By putting the powder into boiled water, you kill the bacteria and your baby has very little chance of getting ill.

I realise that some people use cold water and are happy, but I thought I'd explain why boiled is recommended.

 

[Eala]

Well aware of why freshly boiled water is recommended, and also aware that doing things that way does not work for us. Our LO is perfectly happy and healthy, so we will continue to do things the way it suits all 3 of us. Our baby will not take warm bottles, so I don't see the point in trying to force the issue.

The World Health Organisation also recommends only weighing babies under the age of 6 months every 4 weeks, and babies over the age of 6 months every 2 months, but I'm not going to be following those recommendations either.

 

[Pyrrhic]

I've obviously touched some sort of nerve, when the last sentence of my post made my reasons clear why I made my post. Some people don't realise why boiling is recommended, and I was just explaining it in case anyone else reading was wondering. Not really sure why you're becoming defensive

 

[Lullaby2010]

Ruby's are at room temp as that's what she had in hospital. I did try her a couple times with warmed milk but she wouldn't take it until it had cooled down again. x

 

[cyclura]

DDs are room temp as thats what I was recommended to do by SCBU when I took DD home (and what they did when she was tube fed). The milk in SCBU was expressed breast milk but I continued the room temp with the formula when my milk dried up (again as recommended).

 

[FunnyFace]

I've been giving Lola milk at around room temp or maybe a bit colder since she was 3 weeks old - she loves it more than warm milk!x

 

[angelstardust]

The water should not be boiling when making up bottles as per guidelines, it will break down the nutrients (proteins etc) and there is also a risk of the bottle exploding when you shake it, it should be around 70'c (which is supposedly a full kettle left 30mins).

If making several in advance, they should be cooled rapidly (usually in a sink full of cold water changed regularly) until they are room temperature and then refrigerated. Never put warm bottles in the fridge, there is a risk of food poisoning to the rest of the family that way plus it will brake the fridge quicker.

Just a note for those who do it this way.

 

[chuck]

Not cold straight from the fridge...we do take the chill off but we're not getting it what I would call 'warm'.

Dewi's so hungry I'm sure he'd eat it freezing cold though lol!

We figure room temp/cool is going to be much easier if we're out and about.

 

[jamielou]

Mines too fussy he wont take anything but the milk warm!!

 

[Mynx]

I wanted Evie to take her bottles at room temperature as it would be soooo much easier but she's pretty fussy. She'll refuse the bottle if it's gone cold after heating! So I'm trying to get the bottles slightly cooler each time in the hope that eventually she wont even notice that she's having room temp milk
I do prefer to give her a warm bottle at night tho, more for the soothing effect of warm milk on the belly

 

[pennysbored]

Room temperature to cold. Never had an issue.

 

[lizardbreath]

my daughter from day one wont drinlk her fomula warm at all she will drink it right out of the fridge and at room temp however