Microwaving bottles?

[tattoo_mama]

The advice I was given for those feeds:

"Sleep with the bottle next to your body to keep it at the right temperature so you don't even have to get out of bed to sort out a bottle."

I think you are a super-mum for using a microwave! As you say, it's just one bottle a day.

Another alternative would be to have a bottle of cool boiled water next to the bed and some formula next to the bed (like one of those going out bottle things) and just mix it up at 5am. Less waiting. But would the water still be OK like that? I am thinking so but don't know for sure.

sleep WITH the bottle? lmao!! knowing my luck itd spill all in the bed or id roll on it and hurt myself...and ive tried doing the cooled water thing but shes a fussy madam and likes it warm haha

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Maybe you could sleep with the water against you? You shouldn't do it with the formula because of all the nasties that can breed in it when left for hours at a nice temperature, but with boiled water it should be OK, shouldn't it?

[butterfly_warrior]

I won't microwave a bottle that already has formula in it. I've got no idea if it's going to have an impact on anything, but I just won't.

Sam likes his bottles warm, too. And our formula just doesn't mix in well if the water is cold (nan HA 2 - bit better than 1, but still hard to mix).

What we do is keep cooled, boiled water in the kettle, then flick it on for about 30 seconds to warm it when we are about to make a bottle up. I keep some cooled, boiled water in a container as well so that if it ends up too hot I can mix in some cooler water.

On occasions I do microwave. Generally when I've gone out and had a bottle of water that's gone cold - I'll take the top off and just microwave the water for 30 seconds and then add the formula. The number of parents rooms that only have a microwave is just ridiculous. We started by taking a plastic cup to heat water in the microwave and then heat our bottle in the cup, but as Sam got bigger and so did his bottles, heating things that way got slow and difficult.

BW

[[M]umma[M]ia]

invest in a bottle warmer, plug it in next to your bed. When u go to bed, take the water in the bottle with you and the amount of formula u need in a formula dispenser. Then when she wakes, put it in the wamer, (the water) while u change her nappy or give her cuddles and add the formula fresh to the warmed water. I used to take the bottle to bed wit hot water in it, so by the time she wanted a bottle, it had cooled down just enough.