Bottle level question

[CertainTurton]

Hi,

I feel really silly asking this but its been bothering me for a while. I have been ff for about 3 months now but....when you make a bottle with 180ml water (and add 6 scoops of powder) by the time the powder has dissolved it shows 210ml on the bottle so...do you count that as a 180ml bottle or a 210ml bottle? e.g. when she has finished and it says 60ml left for example, has she had 120ml or 150ml?

I know its silly but I just wondered what you do? btw im using tommee tippee bottles.

Thanks

 

[biliboi2]

Igo by ounces. So Iwould say if you'veadded 6 scoops, thats a 6 ounce bottle x

 

[bigbetty]

I wondered the same question and sent an email to SMA about it. They told me that you count the total amount of made up formula - so in your case 210mls. If you use pre-made cartons you count the total amount of liquid and it's no different when you make it up yourself.

Also if you look on the side of the tub/tin the nutritional information is per 100ml of made up formula, not per scoop of powder x

 

[CertainTurton]

I wondered the same question and sent an email to SMA about it. They told me that you count the total amount of made up formula - so in your case 210mls. If you use pre-made cartons you count the total amount of liquid and it's no different when you make it up yourself.

Also if you look on the side of the tub/tin the nutritional information is per 100ml of made up formula, not per scoop of powder x

Thanks, although interestingly the aptamil cartons say 200ml on them and yet when i pour it into my bottles it shows 210ml! maybe my bottles are odd?

 

[bigbetty]

Or maybe Aptamil are just generous with their portion size lol. I always used to find the SMA cartons contained more than the amount stated too x

 

[Noodlebear]

The advice on the side of my SMA tin is that it's one scoop per ounce of water so I always put his 9oz water in then add 9 scoops and don't really pay attention to how much it rises.

It even tells you to do the water first, I'm sure they wouldn't expect us all to try and guess how much water to put in to make sure that it only amounted to x no. of ounces at the end of it x

 

[Mrs.B.]

The measurement on the bottles is so your putting the right amount of water in, the volume is bound to go up when your adding something. As long as your using the right amount of powder the the water then its fine. I too go by ounces. Use the lower amount. We make up 5oz bottles, they're about 5.5 when mixed but we count it as 5, so when she leaves 2 oz, we say shes taken 3 not 3.5

 

[dizzydoll]

The measurement on the bottles is so your putting the right amount of water in, the volume is bound to go up when your adding something. As long as your using the right amount of powder the the water then its fine. I too go by ounces. Use the lower amount. We make up 5oz bottles, they're about 5.5 when mixed but we count it as 5, so when she leaves 2 oz, we say shes taken 3 not 3.5

I do the same

 

[KittiKat76]

Same x

 

[Ktothema]

In my experience cow and gate, aptamil and small cartons are generous. Not that others aren't just I've not tried them! That's with several bottles too.

 

[Lissidoll123]

I've wondered this too.... Also just another random, curious question when you pour boiled water into a bottle and put in a thermal bottle bag for night feed and then get it out 3 hours later to add formula.... Some water has evaporated so its showing less water than what I need... What does everyone do? Top up or just add formula as normal as the water probs only evaporated to the top of the bottle?! It's being worrying me for a few week now!!! X

 

[Ktothema]

I've wondered this too.... Also just another random, curious question when you pour boiled water into a bottle and put in a thermal bottle bag for night feed and then get it out 3 hours later to add formula.... Some water has evaporated so its showing less water than what I need... What does everyone do? Top up or just add formula as normal as the water probs only evaporated to the top of the bottle?! It's being worrying me for a few week now!!! X

I never used this method for night feeds but if I had and noticed that personally I'd add extra water to the bottle at the start so if it evaporates then the amount of water would be right. Only a few mls though, not like an ounce or so.

 

[mommy0629]

I make bottles in advance and use the dr. brown's formula mixing pitcher, so I go by total volume after the powder is mixed in.

So, lo takes about 5 ounces per feed and I do 6 bottles at a time, but I know if I put 30 ounces of water in the pitcher, once it's mixed I'll have to put 5.5 ounces in each bottle to use it all and then there's waste because she won't drink more than 5 ounces at a time, so I do 26 ounces of water, the amount of formula for 26 ounces (it's 1 scoop to every 2 ounces of water with the US formulas) and that ends up being about 30 ounces after it's mixed so when I pour it into the bottles I have 5 ounces per bottle

 

[overcomer79]

mine just says "1 scoop per 2 ounces of water"