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Starting to panic a little.....
HappyMummy
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......I have asked this before.... and still dont understand about the steriliseing. Thought once sterilised the bottles are only sterile for 6 hours....... if that is the case, how do you make them up ( Alfie is only on 3 hour feeds so that is only two bottles )
We are going away today to a funeral ( couple of hundred miles away ) and we are wondering how on earth we will cope with tomorrow and keeping the bottles sterile.
We will be leaving the hotel at 9am and wont be home till at least 7pm - and will be either at the funeral, the wake, or travelling in that time so wont have anywhere to make the bottles sterile.
As they only last six hours after they have been sterilsed - then we can only make two up which will only take us to 3pm which is not long enough..........
What shall we do???
Starting to worry that we wont have any sterile bottles for my boy.....
We are going away today to a funeral ( couple of hundred miles away ) and we are wondering how on earth we will cope with tomorrow and keeping the bottles sterile.
We will be leaving the hotel at 9am and wont be home till at least 7pm - and will be either at the funeral, the wake, or travelling in that time so wont have anywhere to make the bottles sterile.
As they only last six hours after they have been sterilsed - then we can only make two up which will only take us to 3pm which is not long enough..........
What shall we do???
Starting to worry that we wont have any sterile bottles for my boy.....
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Although I didnt know that about the bottles! My OH works nights and I make up my bottles for the night time (my LO wakes once for a feed and then at 8 - ish) once he leaves in the evening ....it would be a nightmare making up each feed if I didnt....and my sons been fine. Try not to panic hun. xxxx
I assumed once the bottles were sterilised and the caps were put straight on that they were air-tight and therefore sterile.
Its all very confusing this bottle making ??
We have bought the steri bottles, but as Alf is prem, I think the teats will be too big - going to try at next feed and see if he can feed from them.....
I am sure they are only sterile for the 6 hours...... I will double check though now.....
I might be wrong but when they say the bottles are only sterile for 6 hours, I think that means if they are left in the steriliser without taking the lid off. Once you have made them up with water or formula and sealed them with the lid I would have thought they would stay sterile as nothing can get to them!?! xx
I use a cold water steriliser with the milton tablets and make up my bottles for a day. I fill the bottles up with cooled boiled water (after waiting 30 mins) and im sure they last for 24 hours. I then empty the water out and pour in the ready made formula - i buy the cartons as for some reason the powder formula upsets Joseph's tummy. (hubby just thinks he has expensive tastes!)
Helen x
Wow! Great advise!
I think you are all right and I have got it wrong about the 6 hours thing - only problem is the HV said there is no way I can make up the formula in advance ( Alf is on Nutriprem2 as he was 5 weeks prem ) and she has insisted that we can not make up in advance, but what I might start doing now is making the bottles up with water first thing in the morning, then adding the powder and reheating in a jug of warm water. Presume when I open the lid to add the powder it doesn't de sterlise the bottle......
Just tried the Steribottle, and the teat was too big for Alf, so it went all down him - then it blocked and he couldn't get any. He is now lying fast asleep in his basket after having only half his feed, which means he'll wake up early for his next feed, just as we set off on our journey!!
To top it off, my milk has dried up today as well ( was expressing and topping up with formula ) arrrrggghhhh!
Thanks for the advise.
Sam x
Have you tried giving his bottle at room temp....most LOs will take it this way fine, and would just be 1 thing making it easier for you.
I hope he is doing well, my boyfriends sister was premature at 29 weeks, and back then they did the bottles in fridge for 24 hours, so i sure Alfie will be fine xxx
He will take his bottle at room temp, so I guess I could make up the bottle with the cooled water, leave on the side ( do I need to out in fridge ) and then add the powder when needed.... might try that!!
Hubby just returned with thermos flask, travel sterliser and powder dispensers...... now just need to pack!
Alfie is doing just fine thanks. Love the little tike to bits, depite him keeping me awake half the night!!
Sam x
I wouldn't look too much into sterilising. Some HV do go overboard on it. Do what you feel is best for you and what will work for you. I bet you HV's made up feeds in advance and probably still do.
Louise
Only note to make is to make sure you don't put just boiling water into plastic bottles after all the health scare thing a few weeks ago. It causes the chemical to leak into the bottle much much quicker than if you put the water in cooled apparantly. Still nothing to be panicked about but worth noting anyway from what I have read about it.
I make up 3 bottles and put them in the fridge during the evening so I have bottles ready for early morning and any emergency night ones. Then mid morning I sterlise the bottles again, add cooled boiled water and put the right amount of powder into the tommee tippee powder dispensers so when it is feed time I simply tip the powder in. Couldn't be easier, plus it means you have bottles ready to travel if you need to go anywhere! x
Hope this helps!