Microwaving bottles?

[tattoo_mama]

Usually i heat DDs bottles in a bowl of hot water, but her early morning feed (e.g. 4 or 5am) i am sooo tired and she is cranky and wont wait more than a minute for her bottle before screaming her head off, i microwave her formula to heat it up. i shake it well afterwards to ensure there are no 'hot spots', but im worried that microwaving it kills the 'good stuff' in the milk?

i only do this for 1 bottle a day, which is how ive justified it to myself (lol) but is it really bad to do it? TIA

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

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.

[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?

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

Tattoo - my friend's DS is the same and likes his milk a little warm, she just fills his bottle up with the required amount of cold boiled water, then heats it in the microwave for 40 seconds THEN puts the formula in and mixes it - its a bit more fiddly but at least then you dont have to worry about killing the good stuff

[Olive]

Tattoo - my friend's DS is the same and likes his milk a little warm, she just fills his bottle up with the required amount of cold boiled water, then heats it in the microwave for 40 seconds THEN puts the formula in and mixes it - its a bit more fiddly but at least then you dont have to worry about killing the good stuff

thats what i thought your ment to do

[Arimeh]

I think the main thing is that if the bottle has BPA in it, its not good to microwave them - not about killing any nutrients in the milk (which is more typically for breast milk, not formula).

We put a bottle in the fridge with cooled boiled water in it, and leave about 50-70 mls free and then we just boil the kettle. If we boil it before we go to bed, it doesn't take that long to boil again (mind you, we go to bed at like 11.30 or something!) so she's only really waiting about a minute. Then we put in the formula and make it up fresh.

Its awful when they are screaming for their food in the early hours of the morning, DS was an absolute shocker. 10 seconds late and you were in trouble! lol

[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.

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

thats what i thought your ment to do

Is it? I don't FF so i wouldn't have clue My girlfriend has always done it for her DS's early morning feed so that's all i know about it

[rufalina]

We put a bottle in the fridge with cooled boiled water in it, and leave about 50-70 mls free and then we just boil the kettle. If we boil it before we go to bed, it doesn't take that long to boil again (mind you, we go to bed at like 11.30 or something!) so she's only really waiting about a minute. Then we put in the formula and make it up fresh.

That is exactly what I do and it works a treat. I have such a small amount of water in the kettle too, just enough to cover what i need to use, and to not burn the kettle out. I have the formula measured out and ready to go, as my DS only really need a bottle maybe once a week in the night now, so this is the easiest way for us.

[SugarDust]

Ever since I put DS1 on formula I have always warmed up his boiled water for 30 secs in the micro and then added the formula! DF always makes DS3's bottles with cooled boiled water and it just doesn't mix right!

[mzcatieboo]

we used to heat the water up in the microwave then add the formula at night.

[tattoo_mama]

thanks guys
caus im staying at mum and dads and its pretty hectic ive been making up all her bottles for the day and putting in the fridge (the tin says its ok to fridge them for upto 24 hrs)....having an baby-intolerant dad (my dad) and my sister, i cant afford to have DD cry AT ALL!!! but will prob do the microwaving of water THEN adding formula for that 1 feed when i move into my friends and being quiet as a mouse isnt such an issue

[Floweryfields]

I believe it is more about the chemicals leeched from the plastic by microwaving than the effect on the milk - at least I thought so. I know some parents who have gone back to glass bottles for this reason.

[shellbell3]

I heat the water in the microwave then add the formula.
I have one of those container things where you hold the formula for when you go out so at night I put the required amounts scoops in so when she wakes for a night feed all I have to do is quickly heat the water in the microwave dump in the premeasured powder and shake. Easy and fast.