Do you heat your newborns bottles?

[kimberleyrobx]

My mum was up yesterday visiting and when i went to make a bottle for Harrison i came back through to the living room and she asked 'are you not heating his bottles?' and tbh i did with emily and nathan but i'd completely forgotten about that this time round! Just home from hospital and in the hospital they give you the ready made bottles so it completely slipped my mind to head his bottles up at home, i plan to from now on! Still trying to remember everything about being a new mum all over again, i'm getting there! xx

 

[donnarobinson]

I didnt with my first son he liked them room temp kt wasnt til he got older I warmed them up but my second hates them cold and has had them warm from day one x

 

[KAH1990]

I only warmed them up in the winter, because even room tempreture was still too cold. Now in the summer he won't entertain a warm bottle, could be teething or just preference

 

[Pearls18]

I make bottles up from fresh, so they are always warm. I only FF from 6 months so the boys are used to warm milk, but whenever I have given ready made or expressed milk I always warmed it up, my HV said it was better to get them used to room temperature (so they get used to it) but DS1 would feed so much quicker if the bottle was warmer, I guess as he was used to breast milk, DS2 actually seems to prefer it cooler, I wonder if it's the weather.

 

[Bonnie11]

If he takes it cold I wouldn't worry too much! It's so much easier than a baby used to 'perfect prep' temp bottles and now he won't take anything cold 😫! Xx

 

[Gem1302]

I did until about 9 months, when we took him to majorca and it was boiling so tried them straight out of the fridge and we've never looked back!

 

[pinklizzy]

I have given him them warm since we started combi feeding and now although he will take them at room temp-usually when he falls asleep again while waiting for it to cool down enough he prefers it warm and will drink it a lot better.
My daughter was the same and it actually helped when we tried to wean her off a night feed bottle, I gradually gave it cooler and cooler until she decided she didn't really want it after all!

 

[mardy]

Ours always had them room temerature. Rosie my youngest had hers cold.

I think it depends on the baby.

 

[kimberleyrobx]

I have heated all his bottles up today and i have noticed that he is drinking a bit more slowly and also drinking more of his milk... Yesterday and since leaving the hospital he was drinking an ounce every hour/hour and a half, now he is drinking the whole 2oz every hour/hour and a half thank god! Even though he is feeding so regularly the midwife was a bit concerned that he still wasnt drinking past 2oz for being 6 days old... I'm glad im heating his bottles up because it only occured to me last night that i prefer hot food to cold as it warms my belly and lasts longer so i thought why give cold milk when i can give warm? He seemed happy either way though xx

 

[jlim311]

I would say keep it room temperature. It makes it so much easier when you're on the go and you need to quickly make a bottle. The earlier your start the better since the baby is used to the temperature.

Some people I know give it cold from the get go because it makes it even more easier since you can just give straight from the fridge (if you use ready-made formula or make large batches of formula from powder).

 

[wookie130]

There's no real reason to give a warm bottle, other than babies tend to like it that way. LOL! I always gave my daughter bottles right from the cold fridge, though, and she was fine with it, and it made life a bit easier.