Sterilise bottles. Boil kettle. Let kettle sit for 30 min. Make up a day's worth of formula in the bottles. Cool bottles rapidly (plastic tub full of cold water) to prevent time where bacteria can grow in warm milk. Put in fridge.
Take out of fridge 20 min before feed time. Stand in bottle warmer. Give warm milk to baby. Sorted.
Ours is a thriving year old and caught nothing from the above method that was recommended by several parents. The cooling rapidly seemed a good point.
Ah but the latest research is showing that its far from conclusive, and there may not actually be many if any benefits, obviously the baby bonds with the Mother more.
That's not the case at all, there was no new research just an opinion paper on some previous research, which was twisted and hyped up by the media.
Can't be bothered reading all that ^, but the wife(boss) used to have the bottles that had a pot you could put in them with the correct measured amount of powder, we would make up quite a few to last a few days. Boiled the water filled them with water the put the pot in(with powder) lid on and just use as required, but warmed them in microwave for approx 20sec.
MAGIC POWDER THINGS
As far as i am aware, the reason for making them up with freshly boiled water is to kill any potential bacteria in the powder as that is not sterile from the packet.
Water in the kettle that was boiled and then left there for hours to cool will possibly contain more bacteria than the water fresh from the mains, as the boiling will have removed any residual disinfectant from the water. (that would depend on the cleanliness of the tap though)
If everything put together and in the bottle was sterilised, it should be ok.
Mrs Flash. There was an article in last months British Medical Journal with new quantified research....
Can you use a Camelbak or do you have to go with bottles if you're out riding?
Mrs Flash. There was an article in last months British Medical Journal with new quantified research....
Linky?
FunkyDunk can you link please, I'm really interested in this as I am training to be a bfing peer supporter at the moment so am doing a lot of reading around this subject. I would really like to read the article - the only recent one I know about was the Mary Fretwell etc one which was actually about introcusing solids & timings but was put a different spin on by the media and came out in a lot of papers as "breastfeeding not always enough" etc. Thanks!
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