how do you prepare formula for daycare/sitters?

BananaSD

I go back to work next Monday and we are supplementing LO during the day at the sitters with formula.  How do you prepare it for them?

-fill bottles with your own filtered water & put formula in small tupperware containers?  -give premade formula in a cooler and have them refridgerate it asap?  -give the whole container of formula to sitter each day for them to prepare and then take home each night? 

any advice on what is easiest is helpful!!

whitward87

When she stays the night with my parents, we just send a whole can of formula with them, but most of the time, they already have one. The use filtered water out of their fridge.

Lindsey7521

At our daycare we have to send each bottle already prepared. So the night before I make 20oz and pour 5oz in 4 bottles and put them in a lunch bag and then in the fridge. The when I drop her off I put the bottles in the fridge in her classroom.

ablou

We don't do daycare or a sitter, but we have a pitcher that we premake formula in every day (using filtered fridge water) & just fill up bottles as needed & warm in the bottle warmer.  For going around town outings, I keep a case of 8oz Similac premade bottles in my trunk (Charles will eat 8oz in one sitting). 

vshadd00

I fill 4 bottles with 5oz of our formula water. Then I send a can of formula that stays there until empty. They prefer it that way so they can make them as needed and they don't have to refridgerate so many bottles.

carrieannew

You should check with your daycare/sitter and see which way they want. My LO started daycare today at a large center and they have a certain policy and/or law they have to follow that says they can not measure the formula themselves.

The director had told me I had to send in all bottles pre-made but when I met with the head teacher last friday she said I have a few options they do not have to be pre-made they can just not measure. I can fill the bottles with water pre measured and send in a travel formula keeper that has each serving seperate, I can put the formula in the bottle and they can add the water, or I can send pre-made.

I choose the same way we do it at home. When I clean the bottle I put the water & liner in right away. Then when its time to feed I just scoop in the formula. So for daycare I just purchased a couple extra travel formula containers and that way I just grab the bottles the night before and pack the bag.

Sorry if this was wordy!