making bottles with room temp water

[dizzymeg]

what are people's thoughts? someone told me it was fine to boil fresh water, pour into the sterlised bottles, lid and leave outside, and then just add the formula when needed and shake. That way the water at room temp.
I thought the water had to be hot to kill bacteria in the formula and then be allowed to cool.
I have tried the room temp thing and it does make feeds much quicker, but for the last 2 days LO has been quite sicky and dont know if its made him poorly? He isnt waking any earlier for feeds, and seems ok in himself.
Any thoughts?
x

 

[GossipGirl]

what are people's thoughts? someone told me it was fine to boil fresh water, pour into the sterlised bottles, lid and leave outside, and then just add the formula when needed and shake.

This is what I was doing before I started using colief and had to start making in advance due to the awkwardness of it. Well not quite this, but I would boil the kettle and then if he needed a feed then we'd heat up the water to a warm temperature and do it that way. Maybe not quite right to what the aptamil (or other formula) instructions say but he's been having it that way since he was about 3 days old and he's been fine

 

[dizzymeg]

ah ok so you make the formula up and then put it in the fridge and warm when you need? x

 

[blahblahblah]

It's not the recommended way, but it certainly saves time. You need to decide where you're happy making compromises to make life easier. Personally I preferred to make the bottles up hot and store in the fridge.

Were you giving the bottle to LO at room temp? We found that this caused Dylan to be wayyy sickier, but warming it up a bit made all the difference.

 

[stephx]

This is what i do... leave the bottles of cool boiled water out and add fomula when she wants a feed... dont warm them

xx

 

[hajis-sweetie]

Hi,

My LO is having 5 ounces at the moment. We boil and cool the water, add 3.5 ounces to the bottles and seal, cooling quickly. When she needs a feed, we boil fresh water and add 2 ounces of boiling water to make the 5 ounces and add the powder then. I figure that the boiling water kills any bacteria, the feed is warm, just the right temp to feed straight away and it makes FF much easier!

 

[JosieM]

For night feeds and going out and about we make the bottles up with just boiled water, cool quickly in a basin of iced water then store in fridge, then warm it up using a bottle warmer or flask of hot water, it's worked fine so for us. We're using comfort formula which isn't available in ready to use, and I can't see myself boiling the kettle in the early hours and waiting for it to cool! I've read that the water needs to be at least 70 degrees to kill any bacteria in the formula as it isn't sterile, which is where the advice to boil the kettle then wait 30 mins comes from.

 

[bathbabe]

unless you mix the formula with v hot / boiling water, the powder wont be sterile. Personally i make bottles up in advance and pop them in the fridge x

 

[AlwaysPraying]

Making it with boiling water is recommended for premie babies or high risk babies. Honestly, you need to boil anything for many minutes to kill bacteria, so pouring in boiled water without having it continue to be boiled (think cooking soup on the stove) won't kill bacteria. Not that it's a problem though, like I said, the issue is more for at risk babies.

 

[OmarsMum]

We started using water at room temp since we started weaning at around 6.5 mnths as raw food, baby cereals, etc r also not sterile. xx