ok premaking bottles...?

Question

When you pre-make bottles, do you use hot or cold water? For Similac

Answer 1

cold. you can warm them later in a bottle warmer.
As a side note, pre-made bottles are only good for 24 hours if they are not heated and kept refrigerated. Heated bottles are only good for 1 hour then they must be thrown away.

Answer 2

I don't do formula, but my friend who is having twins does it this way. She fills bottles with filtered cold water from the tap, puts on the lids, and has a cabinet she stores them in. She feeds at room temp, which her ped said is fine. She has a container made to hold the formula powder, it has dividers, and uses those to hold the premeasured formula for the next day. Then when it's feeding time, she can just pull a bottle or bottles out and toss in the powder, shake and they are set! It is what she did with her singletons and they were fine with it, and it was better than premaking a ton of bottles with formula.

Answer 3

Alright I am going to put my 2cents in here... When premaking a bottle (I also used similac), it was easier for me to mix them up with luke warm water. And for all of you that say it will spoil, if you are going to put it right in the fridge right after for storage, it is completely fine. When you make dinners that are hot and have leftovers, are they spoiled as soon as you put them in the fridge and get them out the following day? NO ... And just so you know, you can leave a formula bottle out for 3-4 hours...not just 1. The reason most places say only 1 hour is because some parent's would leave it out all day thinking it would be alright. Use common sense...and if you don't believe me... as your pediatrician.

Answer 4

I only use room temperature water no matter what. I make bottles 2 or 3 hours ahead of time at the most. I'm also using Similac

Answer 5

Don't premake them. My son's doctor told me that as long as we used the Pur water filter that we had on our sink that I could just make the bottles with warm water. Saved A LOT of time. You are NOT supposed to use a microwave to heat a bottle!

Answer 6

I do the same thing that Tina B said above except I don't put the formula powder in the containers...I just leave it in the can and scoop as I need it. (But if I had twins I would probably pre-scoop the powder as well)

This is nice because I never have to heat the bottle....my baby drinks them at room temp. and is perfectly happy with it and I don't have to waste time with a bottle warmer or use the microwave which you aren't supposed to do.

Answer 7

If you just plan on making them to use later on, use cold water, and put them in the refrigerator, and heat them when you are ready to use them. If you plan on using it right away, you may use warm water or cold and then heat it up. If you plan on making it before you go out, then just put water in the bottle, and take the formula separately and when you are ready to use it, mix them up, in this case you can take warm water in the bottle and when ready mix in the formula.
Hope that helps.

Answer 8

Hi there,

I use S26 formula, but what I did was boil water, let cool, then place sterilised bottled water in fridge, when it came time for feeding, I'd add powder then heat in microwave for 45 secs, worked for me and took less time.

Answer 9

U use cold water but remember you are only suppose to store them for 24 hours. But heat a 4 oz bottle up for 15-20 sec. after it has been refrigerated in the microwave, shake and then test on your arm to see if right temp

Answer 10

Are you using powder?

Why premake them? Then you have to take the time to heat them up, what a pain....