Bed rooms on the 2nd floor, thought for night time feedings?

CourtneyR2N · April 2010

I am planning on breast feeding, but we all know that things don't always go as planned.

We live in a townhouse. the kitchen and living room are on the 1st floor and all of the bed rooms are on the 2nd floor.

So if baby wakes up hungry I would have either go get the baby and go down stairs, make/warm up the bottle and go back up stairs, or let the baby cry while I went down stairs made the bottle and back up stairs.

What would be the best solution here? Thought?

**Octoberbride09** · April 2010

I know someone who bought a mini fridge and a mini microwave and kept that in thier room until baby stopped waking up every 2 hours.

LCB34 · April 2010

A crock pot in your bathroom and a mini fridge somewhere down stairs.

Keep the crock pot on low at night - pop a bottle in and it will warm it. The fridge is for breast milk - unless you FF and then you wouldn't need that.

toyah81 · April 2010

I plan on getting the baby first, then going downstairs. I'd rather at least soothe her by having her in my arms first, then making the bottle 2nd.

DaniLovesPink · April 2010

My cousin's g/f warms the water and puts it in a thermos, she then puts a can of formula, some empty bottles, diapers, wipes and everything else you may need for a night time feed upstairs with them. If baby wakes up, the thermos keeps the water warm and she just makes everything right there.

lisaohgee · April 2010

My son's room is on the first floor and we are upstairs. He slept in our room for 8 weeks, then I'd have to go down to him.

It's really not too big of a deal.

Gummybear · April 2010

Are we talking formula?

After I weaned DD never got her formula warm. She took it room temp. I'd make a bottle with just the powder in it, bring it up, and open a new bottle of water and mix it right there.

ErinC27 · April 2010

You don't have heat bottles up. Make bottles of water and keep them by your bed with powdered formula. Mix them up and give them to your baby. Then in the morning just bring the dirty bottles down.

madhatter2003 · April 2010

Everyone I know that uses formula just makes room temp bottles...most have bottles upstairs with water premeasured and just add the formula to them. Seems pretty easy.

W&J'sMommy · April 2010

Option 1: BRU sells ready to feed 4 and 8 oz bottles, don't need to be refrigerated. You can keep them in your room for feedings. Normal nipple rings fit right onto them, if you use a different type of bottle just keep clean bottles up there to pour the formula into right before feeding. Room temp never bothered my kids.

Option 2: You keep clean bottles with water already measured and powered formula upstairs, mix right before feeding. Once again room temp is fine.

If you formula feed you won't be able to warm the bottles in the hospital anyway, so baby should be fine with it.

Dcubed · April 2010

I brought bottles and formula upstairs and kept them there. When it was time for feeding I made the bottles upstairs (we have soft/purified water so I wasn't concerned about that). The only thing was waiting for the water to warm up but it was a lot less time than going downstairs etc. We had a small thing of formula that I just always kept upstairs so I only needed to bring bottles up every night. No frig or bottle warmer needed and worked for our kids

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august282005 · April 2010

ErinC27:
You don't have heat bottles up. Make bottles of water and keep them by your bed with powdered formula. Mix them up and give them to your baby. Then in the morning just bring the dirty bottles down.

Ditto this. We only ever served formula at room temp or right out of the fridge. At night we'd prefill bottles with the right amount of water and a travel formula container with the right amount of formula and put them on a table that happened to be outside of DS's room.

When DS woke up hungry we'd stop on our way into the room to mix up a bottle and then feed him. All empties got brought down stairs in the morning.

Nighttime feedings were all about getting DS fed and back to sleep as quickly as possible so we could go back to sleep as quickly as possible.

snansley · April 2010

august282005:

ErinC27:
You don't have heat bottles up. Make bottles of water and keep them by your bed with powdered formula. Mix them up and give them to your baby. Then in the morning just bring the dirty bottles down.

Ditto this. We only ever served formula at room temp or right out of the fridge.

I never thought about this until I saw my friends do it. Genius. It seems so much easier.

CourtneyR2N · April 2010

Yall are geniouses. I assume if I can't breast feed then it would be formula feed. but you never know, if I am able to produce milk but the latching isn't happening, then it might be cooler and crockpot.

ctgrl · April 2010

We got this with DD. It was a great. All of our bedrooms are on the 2nd floor. You can make 2 full 8 oz bottles before you go to bed. The cooler keeps them cool for the evening. Then I bring a stash of empty bottles up. When the baby wakes you pour out the amount you need for the feeding into one of the empty bottles. Put the rest back in the cooler. Then heat just the portion you need. I started the heater quickly then grabbed baby to changed diaper etc. And by the time I was done the bottle was done warming. A GREAT solution for us! https://www.amazon.com/First-Years-Bottle-Warmer-System/dp/B000056HMB

LILBIT1221 · April 2010

if nothing else just think how awesome your butt and legs will look after a few weeks of going up and down those stairs 4 times a night!

eml569 · April 2010

If DH is home with you, then one of you goes to baby and the other goes downstairs to make the bottle. Easy peasy

Mizz&Shizz · April 2010

We have a similar house setup. I plan on getting a little mini cooler and putting a night's worth of bottles in there (I am FFing) and then keeping the bottle warmer upstairs.

Mizz&Shizz · April 2010

LCB34:

A crock pot in your bathroom and a mini fridge somewhere down stairs.

Keep the crock pot on low at night - pop a bottle in and it will warm it. The fridge is for breast milk - unless you FF and then you wouldn't need that.

Not necessarily. A lot of people pre-mix the formula and then split it into bottles so you have it right away and then don't need to mix-to-order. IF you do this, you need to keep them cool.

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