Late night FF driving my wife crazy

[HLS]

My LO is on Aptamil and i have never made up feeds in advance. I make on demand as she has set times so i know hen to make them and if my DD wakes in the night i just give her an Aptamil carton and within 15 mins of waking its been drunk and shes asleep again.

 

[bubbles123]

If you can afford it, just use cartons - would cost you about £4 a week but think of the extra sleep and calm it would bring to your house and cartons are sterile so no hygiene worries. Is so much easier for night feeds. Just pour into pre sterilised bottle and serve (my LO would take them at room temp). However, I see no reason why you couldn't pre make following the guidelines at 8 months.. we're not talking about a little baby here.

 

[angel2010]

I don't know how good this site is, but after reading your post I quickly looked and found this.

https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/hfile69b.stm#E46E7

 

[Alarasdad]

Thanks evryone. Showed evrything to my wife now and now accepts its possible to refrigerate but still feels she should only use it as a last resort and feels guilty about doing it. Ho-hum... I suppose she just has to bring herslef roudn to it. LO stayed at grannies last night so at least she got a good night sleep.

As for cartons.... going to have a look myself but wife says they are only good for age one and over... maybe they don't have earlier ones here. Market is pretty much cornered by Aptamil here.

 

[ke29]

You can buy aptamil first milk cartons in england, would think they would be available somewhere in Turkey. https://www.aptamil.co.uk/products/article/aptamil-first?tr=carousel

 

[Justagirlxx]

I always pre-prepared nighttime bottles and keep them in the bottle cooler/warmer so I dont even have to get up at night. https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2403657

They wouldn't even make these if it was so bad. My baby has never had a problem. I would never in a thousand years boil water just to make a fresh bottle at 4am.

 

[Rachel_C]

If your wife really wants to keep using boiling water to kill any bacteria in the milk, how about this method:

This would be for a 7oz feed and you might have to mess around with the quantities to get the temperature right.

- Before you go to bed, boil 4 oz of water and leave it in a sterilised bottle to go cold.
- When baby wakes, boil the kettle and add 3oz of boiling water to a new bottle.
- Then add some of the cold water from the other bottle to bring it to about 70 degrees which is the right temperature to add formula powder.
- Add the 7 scoops of powder to the hot bottle.
- Mix it up and the heat of the water will kill any bacteria in the powder.
- Then add the rest of the cold water to bring the bottle down to the right temperature for drinking and to increase the total volume of water to 7oz.

As I said, you might have to mess with the quantities, I've never tried it so I don't know if 3oz of hot water would leave the full thing at the end the right temperature. It combines the best of both worlds though and everything is sterile.

 

[Justagirlxx]

I dont understand why everything needs to be sterile? My doctor says that is only for sickly babies or preemies??

 

[bubbles123]

I dont understand why everything needs to be sterile? My doctor says that is only for sickly babies or preemies??

I think it's a UK thing. The rules are much less strict in other parts of the world. I have no idea why. There are people here (in the UK) though who have never sterilised with no problems (along with pretty much the entire FF population of the US!) Also, it's worth bearing in mind if you put your bottles though a dishwasher they reach very high temperatures during the steaming/drying phase at the end which is just the same as steam sterilising pretty much.

 

[Justagirlxx]

I dont understand why everything needs to be sterile? My doctor says that is only for sickly babies or preemies??

I think it's a UK thing. The rules are much less strict in other parts of the world. I have no idea why. There are people here (in the UK) though who have never sterilised with no problems (along with pretty much the entire FF population of the US!) Also, it's worth bearing in mind if you put your bottles though a dishwasher they reach very high temperatures during the steaming/drying phase at the end which is just the same as steam sterilising pretty much.

Yeah I've never sterilized a bottle in my life. I've never even heard of it. Only on this site have I heard people sterilize every bottle. I couldn't imagine doing that.

 

[Mrs Mayhem]

Have you tried buying ready made cartons?? Just take them up with you, they are served at room temp so just pour into a sterilised bottle and its ready!

We make up feeds during the day and store them in the fridge, the health visitor said its just fine to do so, but we are lazy at night and don't want Holly getting too grumpy and awake so cartons are a good simple choice! They come in various sizes too, we buy the 250ml ones.