Night time formula feeds

My baby doesn't like to wait at night for a feed for too long so looking for a quick safe way of making his bottle up, I brought a prep machine and it says heats to 70 but when I held thermometer over the water in tank it was reading 63 degrees so now worried he will get ill, can I make up a feed by boiling kettle adding powder and then leave in fridge and give to him straight from fridge as he will drink at any temperature? He drinks every 3 hours, sorry for long post ..

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Yes we always made up bottles three at a time using the standard method then kept in the fridge. Ours also drank it cold quite happily.

Yes just make they cool right down before you put them in the fridge and they can stay in there for up to 24 hours x

Either the pre made or we did 'hot shot' method. So for a 120ml, 60ml water from a boiled kettle, mixed all the formula in then added another 60ml cold boiled water (kept a bottle of boiled water in the fridge)

We used to use the kettle then nuby rapid cools during the night, bottle was ready in 2 minutes, my baby was very fussy and wouldn't drink cold milk x

You could use a thermos. Get hot water ready before bed and put it on the night stand with a couple bottles that have the formula in them. Wake up, pour, shake, eat.

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