How to do night feeds

[Willow82]

I thought I would post here as there doesn't appear to be much traffic in the formula feeding forum.

My DD is 4 weeks old and is suffering from pain during and after feeds. Her poos are also a dark olive green. She is combi fed but due to a low supply she's not getting much from me. She's been on aptamil so far.

I took her to the doctors today and they've prescribed a lactose free formula in case it's a lactose intolerance. I'm not sure how to do the night feeds with this as thus far we've used ready made formula when she wakes up in the night. I don't fancy having to soothe a hungry baby at 2am whilst waiting for the formula to cool down. I'm considering making up a feed prior to going to bed and putting it in the fridge. I know this is contrary to the guidelines but would one feed a day be ok? I'm not sure what to do.

 

[londonangel]

I think it will be fine. Just make it fresh before you go to bed. I find it takes half an hour to cool in the fridge. I had to stop breastfeeding a couple of weeks ago and make formula bottles for morning and afternoon at 9am so have one in there for seven hours and it is fine. We use Aptamil too. I did the same with Eleanor's when she moved on to formula having rejected the breast at seven months!

 

[Diannam]

I have made fridge batches for a month and baby has been fine. Where I live it is not considered a no-no, but it is not recommended practice. Warming the refrigerated bottle however, if you choose to, can take a while and leave you with a screaming baby for a couple of minutes.

More recently I have been pulling a bottle of sterilized water from the fridge and leaving it on the counter until the next feed and adding my formula to it then so it is at least room temperature. (Boiled water is considered safe at room temperature for 24 hours here)

As far as the dark olive green poop I have been told that it is because of the iron in the formula.