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Preparing bottles?

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    #32
    Chattastrophe!
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    Once you have the bottles made up, with water that has been boiled and then left for 30 minutes, is it OK to then put hot bottles straight into the fridge to cool them?

    I know the instructions say to cool in cold water first, but why can't you just cool them in the fridge, what's the difference ...? :confused:


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    #33
    Big Bag of Chips
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    I always thought it was more to do with the temp of the bottle would heat up the fridge!
    Cooling in a sink of cold water is quicker, I find. Unless you're running out the door or something, then putting them in the fridge on the odd occassion might be ok?


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    #34
    Cunning Stunt
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    we make a batch of 6 bottles at a time. We boil the kettle, add the water to the bottles, then let the water cool to 40 degrees (as instructed on the formula packet), then add the formula, give them a good shake and into the fridge.

    We heat the bottle in the microwave when it is needed (the nurses in the hospital heated bottles the same way). Like another poster mentioned, my baby can go from 0 to hysterical in 10 seconds if he's hungry and there's no way I would have the time to add the formula and then wait for the bottle to cool.


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    #35
    pwurple
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    Cunning Stunt wrote: »
    we make a batch of 6 bottles at a time. We boil the kettle, add the water to the bottles, then let the water cool to 40 degrees (as instructed on the formula packet), then add the formula, give them a good shake and into the fridge.

    We heat the bottle in the microwave when it is needed (the nurses in the hospital heated bottles the same way). Like another poster mentioned, my baby can go from 0 to hysterical in 10 seconds if he's hungry and there's no way I would have the time to add the formula and then wait for the bottle to cool.

    Do you mean 70 degrees?

    That's what's usually on the pack, and that would be the temp required to sterilize the formula powder.


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    #36
    Cunning Stunt
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    No - just had another look and it definitely says 40 degrees on the pack. Also online http://www.nestlenutrition.se/infantnutrition/se/Material/Documents/nan1_se_eng.pdf


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    #37
    pwurple
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    Ahhh, it's NAN 1. That's not your normal run of the mill formula, it's partly hydrolyzed etc. It must be already sterile?

    The general rules are here, in the WHO guidelines. It's 70 in general.
    http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/micro/PIF_Bottle_en.pdf


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