Bottle feeding mommas - where to keep the bottles at night?

HeatherandRay · April 2009

I plan to make up my bottles for the day each morning and store them in the fridge. What do I do at night? I do not want to walk all the way down to the kitchen for night feedings and do not have room for a mini fridge (or even a cooler) in the nursery. How do you deal with this?

TakYelgif · April 2009

honestly I just go to the kitchen and make th bottle.

Can you keep a small lunch bag with an ice pack in the baby's room?

CMM05 · April 2009

We kept a couple bottles and a container of formula in the upstairs bathroom. I just made them in the bathroom (so I didn't pre-make them....). We always just used luke warm tap water, so it was easy to just turn on the water and fill it up

I know that some people purchase one of those smaller fridges and keep it in their room or the baby's room.

choco_lab · April 2009

CMM05:

We kept a couple bottles and a container of formula in the upstairs bathroom. I just made them in the bathroom (so I didn't pre-make them....). We always just used luke warm tap water, so it was easy to just turn on the water and fill it up

I know that some people purchase one of those smaller fridges and keep it in their room or the baby's room.

Me, too. I just make them as I need them with tap water. I wouldn't make them ahead of time because I'm really never sure how much I'm going to use. If the last bottle he took only 1/2, I might make more for the next one or if he was starving I make a little more to top him off.

pamela-matt · April 2009

We put the mini fridge in our hallway up to the attic. ?Can you put it in your bedroom???? or another bedroom upstairs????

teeveegirl · April 2009

We have the First Years Day/Night Bottle Warmer in the nursery. It has a small cooler for the bottles that attaches to the warmer. It's perfect for us.

yankee42 · April 2009

we have a bottle warmer that has a cooler attached...i used that at first, but really only for a couple of weeks..then i actually needed the walk downstairs to help wake me up, haha!?

Mrs.Reem · April 2009

We put a fridge in the nursery. Land of Nod has a small one or you can get a dorm fridge too.

skoorbnibor · April 2009

I actually found it better for me to go downstairs. While E ate, I caught up on my Friends DVDs and then Buffy, then Angel, then Six Feet Under (you get the idea!)

I was always worried that 1. I would wake my husband, and ONE of us needed to get sleep! and 2. that I would fall asleep and drop him! and 3. that the cooler was not keeping them cool enough, and that the warmer would take too long (20 seconds is long with a crying baby!)

When my husband was on paternity leave, though, I did have premeasured powder in the bottles with premeasured water in a thermos (prewarmed) but I only did that for about 2 weeks or so

LuckySunshineBaby · April 2009

teeveegirl:
We have the First Years Day/Night Bottle Warmer in the nursery. It has a small cooler for the bottles that attaches to the warmer. It's perfect for us.

We used this as well while we were BFing for night time feedings. Now that we do FF we use warm tap water and I pre-measure so I can think less. DD STTN, but was off schedule for a few weeks and that worked for us. The 1st years product is supper tiny and could fit anywhere!

beebe929 · April 2009

We pull a bottle out before the last one goes to bed (or it will be freshly pumped). Breast Milk is good for hours...

I am not sure this can be done with formula though.

RoxBride · April 2009

We went to the kitchen each time and pulled from the fridge. But I'd probably just pack a cooler with ice if needed.

leslieanne1003@yahoo.com · April 2009

we just had the empty bottles and formula container up in our bedroom and just made them before we went into her room to feed her. it made it easier for us than having them premade already.

ajk612 · April 2009

We bought the First yrs Day/night warmer/cooler. Hope it works.

LisaandBryan · April 2009

Thats what we use adn keep in the nursey and it works fine.

RobynK · April 2009

We did a small cooler at night before we had our dorm fridge in the nursery. It worked great! I think it was pretty much "lunch bag" size so it doesn't have to be big at all.

Mr.&MrsS · April 2009

I poured the water into the bottles before I went to bed, and measured the formula into one of those formula containers. I would put all that stuff into a basket and leave it in the hall when I went to bed. When DS woke up I would just dump the formula into the water, shake it up, and feed DS.

itsmevkb · April 2009

I bought a cooler that looks like a large lunch bag from Target and I put frozen ice packs in it at night with the bottles. They stay cold and I just take them out as I need them. I've found with both my children that if you never warm up the bottles they don't even know what they are missing and will drink them cold. But, if you don't want cold bottles and you're using formula then you can pre-fill your bottles with water and pre-measure your formula and use one of those segmented formula containers and then just mix them as you need them.

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