Uk formula feeding mums

My baby has been exclusively pump fed for the last 4 months (before that he was mixed fed for a couple of months with ready made formula). I am now switching him to be exclusively formula fed. He is happy to have ready made formula but is rejecting formula that I make up from powder. The only reason I can think of is he is used to milk being cold (either straight from the fridge or room temperature) so he doesn’t want warmed milk (which the powdered stuff is even after using the nuby to cool it). Any suggestions on how I can cool the feed down more so he eats it? I can’t afford to not use powdered formula!

Hello everyone! 👋🏼 I have a 5 weeks old baby who is fully formula fed now ( since he was 2 weeks old) but he likes to pacify on my breast before bedtime to calm down as he is very colicky and gets quite unsettled after bath/ sleep time. Im wondering if offering the breast occasionally could ‘confuse’ him and might refuse to take bottle? Sorry if this is a silly question Im a FTM 🫣☺️ Many thanks for any advise x

This topic is very confusing to me. How do you prepare formula milk at home and outside? How do you heat or cool it? Have you found any practical methods? Please help 🥹

We used to just have sterile water and powder and then warm it up or have it cool on the go and our son is and has been completely fine. Now im pregnant again I’m being told that it needs to be at least 70C but I’m confused of how to cool it down from that 70C? For example if we’ve gone out in the car or anywhere really gone for a walk?

I’ve heard mixed reviews about the nuby cooler but then I think isn’t it defeating the point of transferring the feed from one container to another several times?

So in my mind we will have a clean sterile bottle, formula in a container, a flask with fresh boiling water only used above 70c (which we’ve tested lasts 4 hours) and then if we have another thing to pour the formula in to cool down means that it’s another container.

The steps would be Open the bottle Put the formula in Put the boiled water in Put the mixture into a cooler Pour the mixture back into the bottle And then it’s ready?

Is that right? All to avoid bacteria? But using more containers which in my mind would surely increase the risk of bacteria?

Because we used to just pour the formula into the bottle which had sterile water in and then if we could warm it up if not then it’s all good?

So literally one step?

Loosing my mind a bit with this as you can tell

I’m a first time mum and have no clue how things work. I want to exclusively formula feed my baby when she comes, I will try breastfeeding for a bit when I just give birth but overall don’t plan to breastfeed. What happens to the milk? How do I prevent getting engorged breasts and all those horror stories about getting fever, etc. How do I just naturally stop milk from coming and at the same time not die from pain.