If you use powdered formula

RoAnt05 · May 2009

how do you handle your night feedings? Right now, we make huge pitchers of formula and prepare 3 bottles each at a time for day and night bottles. When they wake up during the night, we bring them downstairs, heat up the bottle and feed them. I am wondering how you handle your night feeds because I am thinking of just filling the bottles with water and bringing them upstairs and just mixing the powder in the bottles when one or both of them wake up. My only issue is that David's formula clumps up pretty bad.

krstyqt · May 2009

I put the pre measured formula in the bottle. I have the bottle (with the powder) and a room temp bottled water and mix when they wake up. If the formula clumps I would just stick with the way you were doing it before.

Cassie42 · May 2009

When we used formula we set up a system that worked well for us, especially in the middle of the night. I got the formula cups that had 3 sections and I put the measured formula in those. Then I had a little hand mixer with batteries. You can get them at Walmart or BRU. I would have room temp water in a bottle as well and a plastic cup that had measurements on it. I would pack all of the supplies into a basket with the bottles and bibs and bring it upstairs. When they woke up we had everything we needed right there!

JenandChris06 · May 2009

We mix up a pitcher of formula, fill the bottles and put them in the fridge. I happen to have a lot of the plastic bottles like they use in the NICU, and whenever we go anywhere, I already have the Avent bottles filled with water, and put the premeasured powder in each NICU bottle. Then all I need to do is pour, shake, feed.

keg · May 2009

Up to this point, we make big batches of formula and then warm them at night. Early on, I put them in a cooler and then heated them in the room using a little crock pot. Then I just got the point of going to the kitchen and doing it. However, I think I just came up with a new way that worked well when we were traveling. First of all, I put the powder in their bottles then I put the correct amount of water in a second bottle (just cap, no nipple). In the middle of the night, I just pour the water in, shake, and go. I have found that it's easier to add water to powder than powder to water.

FaeryStarGazer · May 2009

We had every thing in their room- bottles with pre-measured water (or a big pitcher of water) and the formula canister and basically did what you are thinking of doing. We never warmed their bottles.

Is the clumpy formula GentlEase or soemthing like that? I found it was soo soo clumpy when we used it!

tripletmom · May 2009

My babies use to get half formula and half bm so, i would make a huge batch of formula in the blender add the breast milk put the bottles in a cooler bag with ice. When the babies got up i would just heat them up with with hot water from the tap.

My dd got up for a bottle till she was 8.5 months old. I would just start to give her bottle cold, and she did not seem to mind.

CaliJenny · May 2009

I would make premade bottles before we all went to bed and put them in a mini fridge that's in a spare bedroom next to theirs. Then we'd run hot tap water in a plastic bowl, place the cold bottle in it until it was room temp. Going downstairs was not an option because I was scared to go up and down the stairs with them more than I needed to, not to mention us being half asleep. We paid $40 for the mini fridge at Target. Best $40 spent ever!!

They haven't taken a night time bottle for a month now so we unplugged the fridge. So hopefully you'll be over it soon. If I were you I'd just do the prefilled bottle with water and then pour in the powder. Get one of those bottle mixers so you don' t have to shake.

Temp159135562506975 · May 2009

we always put in the water premeasured... and then mixed the powder in up in the nursery at night. DS always got room temp bottles- so there was no need to heat, etc... nor go up and down stairs.

tnkrbl21 · May 2009

We make 21 bottles at a time and that gets us through the day and night (and sometimes - depending on when we make them - it gets us through those early morning feedings). When we get up at night we just microwave and feed. Not sure if I'm following "the rules" but we use what we make within a 24 hr period so I dont see too much of an issue.

ETA: I just wanted to add that they are still sleeping in our room on the first floor which is right off the kitchen - so no up and down stairs.

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