Ready-to-feed cartons adn sterile bottles

[Gobilino]

Hi all,

33 weeks pregnant at the moment and trying to get my head around bottle feeding and steralising etc.. I am planning to try ready to feed cartons when out and powder for when in the house.

If I am going out and about can i remove the bottles from the steraliser and take them out with me ready to fill with ready to feed formula from a carton? Or will they no longer be sterile? Also how do i store bottles for filling when out and about?

I'm so confused about it all. If I bulid the bottles straight out of the steriliser will they be sterile?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

Lyndsay

 

[AlwaysPraying]

Baby probably won't take powder and ready made at the same time to be honest. Too much difference in consistency. Babies usually like one kind all the time.

I used to take a ready made can that was one serving and a sterile bottle out wih me. Pour the formula in and your good to go. Just sterilize the bottles in boiling water then let dry. Put the top on and I put that into a plastic baggie for extra protection.

Now I will make up a bottle as normal and put it into an insulated carrier filled with ice packs. I bring a thermos full of boiled water and when it's time to feed I put the bottle into the thermos to warm.

Make sense? any other wuestions?

 

[smelly07]

Both my girls had powder and ready made without any problems. we took the bottles out of the sterilizer and put them in the fridge (empty) (advised by midwife) then if we went out took one out the fridge and straight into an insulated Avent bottle bag with an ice pack. i came across my Avent bag which can hold two bottles when i was having a clean out, hasnt been used in ages, forgot i still had it, if you want it you can have it. in mint condition, dont want any money for it. x

 

[Flowerew]

hi my baby was on ready made cartons for a few weeks because of me being in hospital for a while after he was born but when we came home he had powered formula and wouldn't drink the ready made ones at all. We go to see his grandparents quite often who live about a 3 hours drive away. When we go we use milk powder dispensers which fit inside the bottle filled with water then when you want to use one you just empty the dispenser into the water and mix, saved loads of problems of trying to get him to drink the ready made. Hope this helps.

 

[Gobilino]

thanks guys.So is a plastic bag, like a sealable sandwich bag enough to keep the bottle ok ready to mix the powder with hot water or do i need to keep them in a cool bag?

Also, when at home, if you steralise the bottles can you take bottles out one at a time as long as you keep the lid on the steraliser or do you have to re-steralise each time you open the lid? or is is better to assemble the bottles straight away and keep them out of the steraliser?

Sorry for all the questions. I need to get this straight in my head!

 

[Flowerew]

I make up all my bottles and keep them in the fridge until he wants one. They say you're not supposed to do that now but lots of people do and Ive never had any problems doing it.

 

[HannahGraceee]

When ava was younger, she took powder and pre-made so i dont think you will have a problem with that, and if your worried about the bottle being no sterlie anymore, you can buy disposable sterile bottles for on the go, i used to keep them in her change bag x x

 

[HannahGraceee]

^^ FYI there from boots

 

[HannahGraceee]

https://www.boots.com/en/Tommee-Tippee-sterilised-bottle-medium-flow-five-pack_862526/?CAWELAID=334512757&cm_mmc=Shopping%20Engines-_-Google%20Base-_---_-Tommee%20Tippee%20sterilised%20bottle%20medium%20flowfive%20pack

 

[bathbabe]

STERILISER: once you open the lid take all the bottles out and put them together, otherwise if you just take 1 out the rest isnt sterile anymore. OUT AND ABOUT: decide how long your going out for and how many feeds that you will need, i always take an extra one just incase. So take say 2 of the empty made up bottles and the 2cartons. As long as the bottles are put together and the lids are on properly there isnt really any need to put it in a bag, other than your changing bag! If you make bottles up before you go out, with powder or a carton i would then pop it into an insulated bottle bag. If you take cooled boiled water in the bottles and the powder to be added in, it isnt sterile, just so you know, the powder has to be added to hot water for it to be sterile, plenty of people do it tho. AT HOME: i make up my bottles in advance and store them in the fridge ready to be used within the next 24hrs. Anything iv missed? Or anything else to ask? X

 

[Gobilino]

Thanks for this bathbabe, very helpfull. So i take it if baby is going to my Mums for a few hours you could just take a couple of bottles round and she could make up the feed with her kettle?

This all makes sense as long as I can just assemble the bottles straight out of the steraliser and carry them in a normal bag!

I think it confused me because of this idea that as soon as they are out the machine they cant be uses unless immediately. I would think that if they teat is inside the bottle and the cap is on tightly then nothing can get inside to grow!

 

[bathbabe]

no problem. yep she can use her kettle if you take powder. X

 

[sunshine114]

When I go out I assemble the bottles with the lid on tightly and then use ready made cartons (just unscrew the lid and pour in, keeping the cap on the teat at all times) I then use a travel warmer to warm it slightly. I take as many feeds as I will need +1. As the weather gets more wintery I might take 2 extra just in case.

At home, I make bottles in batches of 3 and keep in the back of the fridge, warming as needed.

If I'm going to my mums (5 minutes up the road) I take one of the bottles out of the fridge, put it in an insulated bottle bag and then put it in her fridge when I arrive. If I'm going anywhere further than my mums, or to the shops first then I use the cartons. So much easier.