Bottle Feeding at Night

[Jax510]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanting some advice or suggestions for bottle feeding my bub at night time.

We live in a 2 storey place with the kitchen downstairs and ours and bubs room upstairs.

Our boy is due in May (just in time for chilly winter) and the idea of trudging downstairs 2 or 3 times a night to heat bottles etc does not sit well.

I am thinking of getting a Bottle Warmer but Im not sure how they work yet..

So I was thinking of taking a couple of bottles of boiled water in the bottles with separate container of the formula up to his room at night and then when he wakes mixing the bottle and popping it in the warmer to heat... Will this work??

It will mean no up and down stairs at all hours and everything is still sterilized etc...

I would love to hear your thoughts or other suggestions.

[cookie087]

If you boil the water before hand and only
mix the formula in as required, then that is fine.

But I'd recommend not heating the bottle at all. We did this with our son and he takes the bottle at room temperature. Much easier for when ur out and about as you don't have to find a microwave!

[Bell & Bug]

I would probably put the water in the bottles, and measure the right amount of formula into the formula dispensers you can get, and mix it all up that way. You can warm the bottles if you wish to, but you dont have to. I have no idea about the bottle warmers though so no idea about that one.

[MumtoD]

I make up 24 hours worth of bottles and leave them in the fridge. When our son was a new born and feeding in the night I would get up and come straight downstairs and put his bottle in the bottle warmer (takes about 5 mins for 100ml and 10 mins for 220ml) and then go up and change his nappy and then come back and get his bottle and either feed him in the upstairs loungeroom or on the rocker in his room.

Just be careful if your putting warmer water in the bottle warmer as obviously it wont take as long to heat up and its all trial and error.

[myhusbandswife]

i just keep a thermos of hot water and pour some into a little container to sit the bottle in. Its cheaper than a bottle warmer

[SurNuage9]

But I'd recommend not heating the bottle at all. We did this with our son and he takes the bottle at room temperature. Much easier for when ur out and about as you don't have to find a microwave!

:iagree:I did this at the suggestion of a midwife friend of mine from about the time DS was 5 days old and it was the best thing I ever did. Made putting bottles together so much faster amd easier! Warming bottles isnt really necessary.

[elleandsam]

I make up 24 hours worth of bottles and leave them in the fridge. When our son was a new born and feeding in the night I would get up and come straight downstairs and put his bottle in the bottle warmer (takes about 5 mins for 100ml and 10 mins for 220ml) and then go up and change his nappy and then come back and get his bottle and either feed him in the upstairs loungeroom or on the rocker in his room.

Just be careful if your putting warmer water in the bottle warmer as obviously it wont take as long to heat up and its all trial and error.

This is what we do as well, the nurses at Tresillian said it was okay to do.

[Nemmy]

What you want to do sounds fine to me! Not much different to what I did really, except I kept mine in the kitchen because we live in a single storey home. I used to pop the formula in the filled bottle of water, place the bottle in the warmer then go change bub's nappy while the bottle heated. If I lived in a double storey place I would have most likely have kept the bottle warmer in baby's room (somewhere safe of course) or in the sitting area of the 2nd level, with some bottles filled with boiler water and a filled formula dispenser. Much easier for those middle of the night feeds as my bub always liked to have her bottle warm.

[Jax510]

Thanks so much for all your responses.

I didnt even know you could give bub a room temp bottle!! I just assumed you had to heat it.

Can I do this from day one?

[elleandsam]

I didnt even know you could give bub a room temp bottle!! I just assumed you had to heat it.

Can I do this from day one?

You sure can :)

[cookie087]

Thanks so much for all your responses.

I didnt even know you could give bub a room temp bottle!! I just assumed you had to heat it.

Can I do this from day one?

Yep!!!

[SurNuage9]

Yep! Had I known I could have done it from day one I would have, I plan to do the same with my next one :)

[MumtoD]

:iagree:I did this at the suggestion of a midwife friend of mine from about the time DS was 5 days old and it was the best thing I ever did. Made putting bottles together so much faster amd easier! Warming bottles isnt really necessary.

It was necessary for us. Having a winter bub if we gave him a room temp bottle he would take AGES to go to sleep - if we gave him a warmed bottle he would drop off as his feed was finishing.

[SurNuage9]

It was necessary for us. Having a winter bub if we gave him a room temp bottle he would take AGES to go to sleep - if we gave him a warmed bottle he would drop off as his feed was finishing.

then let me rephrase, it's not medically necessary

[mum2bubba]

We don't have a two storey house, but when Nathan (well all three of my kids actually) were still having their bottles at night/early morning is have a few bottles of cooled boiled water in their room (or our room when they were still there) and the formula and then I'd just add it there. I wouldn't need to go to the kitchen to make bottles. I don't heat their milk either, they had it at room temperature.