how do you make your bottles?

[BethHx]

do you make them all in the morning & store them in the fridge.
make them on demand? etc

 

[kecie]

I used to make them all in the morning and store them in the fridge, but now I'll boil the jug a few hours before baby is due for his next feed so the water is not boiling hot but at drinking temperature, and I have a storage container for the formula where you just add the amount of scoops needed for a bottle and i just tip that in.

 

[ilove3baby]

On demand...

 

[Shanelley]

I prob do it wrong, but it suits us. I pre measure the water in the bottles, warm up the water, then mix in the formula. On Demand.
If im going out i will mix the bottle an have it warmer then needed so when its cooled it will be perfect when she wants it

 

[HellBunny]

Pre make and keep in the fridge for upto 12 hours xx

 

[mrsbw]

My LO always feeds at the same times now so I make them up fresh as they're needed and cool in a bowl of cold water to get to drinking temp.

 

[BethHx]

Pre make and keep in the fridge for upto 12 hours xx

How do you heat them, microwave, place into warm water etc?x

 

[SmartieMeUp]

I boil the kettle in the morning so I only cool the first bottle, and then use the preboiled water throughout the day and heat it in the microwave when needed and add formula after. Then boil fresh water before I go to bed.

Done it since birth. Despite what MW/HV says, do what's easier for you.

x

 

[BethHx]

I was thinking if i was making a 4oz bouttle as an example.

1. Boil the kettle & leave to cool for about 15 mins.
2. Pour 2oz of the water into the bottles & add the formula.
3. Pour remainder of water into a thermal flask.
4. Cool the bottles then put the bottles into the fridge & when needed take them out & top up with 2oz's from the thermal flask.

Then it would be a right temp etc?
Does this way sound possible or safe? I was planning on BF'ing so really don't know much about bottle prep etc

x

 

[SmartieMeUp]

I was thinking if i was making a 4oz bouttle as an example.

1. Boil the kettle & leave to cool for about 15 mins.
2. Pour 2oz of the water into the bottles & add the formula.
3. Pour remainder of water into a thermal flask.
4. Cool the bottles then put the bottles into the fridge & when needed take them out & top up with 2oz's from the thermal flask.

Then it would be a right temp etc?
Does this way sound possible or safe? I was planning on BF'ing so really don't know much about bottle prep etc

x

I wouldn't use the thermal flask as it won't be sterile. Pour 2oz into all of your bottles, leave to cool and store them in the fridge (if you want to store). Add formula and heat up when your baby is due x

 

[BethHx]

I thought because it will only be hot water in there that it would be sterile? I could also sterilise it daily when i do my bottles.
Thanks for the advice though x

 

[SmartieMeUp]

I thought because it will only be hot water in there that it would be sterile? I could also sterilise it daily when i do my bottles.
Thanks for the advice though x

If you fill it to the top with boiling water, it will be sterile then. So you could do that first and then add the 2oz to it

No problem x

 

[DukesAngel]

I make up one 11oz bottle with a closed lid and store it in the fridge pouring out 5oz at a time in another bottle.

 

[michelle81200]

We have different instructions herein the us. I just called the dr and we do not Boil water here as the water is safe to make formula with. Anyone else in th us oil water?

 

[mrsrof]

I boil the kettle in the morning, let it cool a bit and fill the bottles for the day and pop them in the fridge (just water in the bottles). I then scoop in the formula as and when needed for the day. I repeat the same in the evening and that gets us through the night to the next morning.

 

[BethHx]

I boil the kettle in the morning, let it cool a bit and fill the bottles for the day and pop them in the fridge (just water in the bottles). I then scoop in the formula as and when needed for the day. I repeat the same in the evening and that gets us through the night to the next morning.

So do you give the bottles at the temperature they are in the fridge?

 

[mrsrof]

I boil the kettle in the morning, let it cool a bit and fill the bottles for the day and pop them in the fridge (just water in the bottles). I then scoop in the formula as and when needed for the day. I repeat the same in the evening and that gets us through the night to the next morning.

So do you give the bottles at the temperature they are in the fridge?

sorry, left out a step! i pop them in the warmer before adding the powder and giving to DD! i'm finding she's just as willing to drink a room temp bottle as a warm one (i have a habit of warming bottle when she's starting to stir but she might not wake for another half hour!!) so how much you warm it depends on your lo xx