Formula

Hello ladies I need some help 👀
I’m having to start combi feeding breast milk morning and night and formula during the day
If I’m going out all day how do you ladies prepare your formula to feed baba all day??

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We take a flask of hot water from the kettle, 3 sterile bottles and 3 feeds worth in the formula dispenser and make it fresh as we go. That covers us for about 6-8 hours as she feeds every 2-3. If I’m unsure the water is hot enough I’ll ask for some boiling water from wherever I am (cafe/pub etc…).

As a back up we may have another 2 or so sterile bottles with two premixed bottles of formula

We’re just starting with combi feeding and only do a lunch time formula feed but we have a boiling flask and then the nubby rapid cool. Then we do a hot shot from the flask, put the water for the rest of the feed into the rapid cool and pour that into the bottle so we don’t have to sterilise the rapid cool each time. X

Breastmilk lasts for 6 hours out of fridge so can you feed that if you go out?

I though it’s only lasted 6 hours fresh once put into the fridge only lasts 2 is this incorrect?

yeah longer than 2 hun although guidelines vary! Here’s something that might help - https://www.pampers.co.uk/newborn-baby/feeding/article/breast-milk-storage

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