Best ways to make a bottle quick! (Formula feeding)
My little one is 2 weeks old today so we’re still trying to figure things out as she’s our first. Does anyone have any tips on the quickest way to make a bottle or if I can premake them?
Little one will wake up and start screaming for milk, so much crying that she almost looses her voice while we are frantically making a bottle.
At the moment we do the hotshot method with the Nuby but it’s always too hot and we have to end up running the bottle under cold water for 5 mins.
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We brought a tommee tippee prep machine and it was so much easier x
We have already cooled down water ready to add with the hot shot method, so we add the formula and the hot shot then add our already cool boiled water to it x
There are ready to feed bottles you can buy. We used aptamil 1. Its formula in a bottle ready to be fed from a sterile bottle
I had the tommee tippee prep machine and it did wonders. But before that, I would premake bottles and once they cooled, they can be stored in the fridge for up to 24 hours. Saved so much time x
I use the tomme tippe prep machine it’s really good x
Tommee tippee prep machine
Controversial but get a perfect prep machine! Absolute game changer for us
I use the nuby rapidcool. I keep boiled water in a thermos flask as the water stays above 70 degrees for about 10-12 hours. When I make a bottle I measure the amount of hot water I need into the baby bottle, and then pour the majority of that water into the rapidcool flask to cool. I leave a tiny amount of boiling water in the bottom of the baby bottle just enough to sterilise the formula I pour into the bottle. By the time I’ve added the formula to the hot water in the baby bottle, the water in the rapidcool flask has cooled down and I pour it into the baby bottle. It’s then cool enough to drink straight away.
Takes a matter of minutes literally and even better can take all of them up to bed with you so don’t have to keep going up and downstairs x
We put the bottle in a jug of fridge cold water and it cools down in 5/10mins (this is what they did in hospital - and all medical people I’ve spoken to advise against the perfect prep machines and hot shotting)
But a dummy is the saviour at this point and stops much screeching - now he’s a bit older and only using the dummy at nap time I just pop an episode of Bluey on and that distracts him for long enough
Also once she’s a little bit older she will be more predictable and you can make it in advance as it keeps for 2 hours - also the pre-made ones are great while you are figuring this out (they are however a bit more expensive)
We use 2 flasks, one boiling and one cool boiled (when boiling has gone cold, top up the cool boiled). When time to make a bottle, add formula first, boiling water next then cool boiled to the correct temperature
Prep machine worked for us
I premake and just warm up when needed, health visitor told me to do this and said this way is so much safer then hot shot method and prep machines if ur struggling to make then fresh every time. As long as u make them n then put them in fridge as soon as they r made there's no way for bacteria to develop x
Tommee Tippee Prep Machine! Takes less than a minute to make a bottle and it’s to the recommend temp for a baba, so quick and easy to use! Tells you step by step what to do so you can’t mess up! xxx
Pre make! We have always done this and store them in the fridge
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