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My LO is 9 weeks old and we’re prepping either full bottles or a big bottle of formula (which we pour out from) a couple of times a day and store it in the fridge, then heat up the milk when we feed him.

We’re hitting a couple of challenges with prepping his bottles. Firstly, he goes from zero to 100 when he’s hungry or hasn’t been fed enough. Seriously no feeding cues to “I’m starving why haven’t you fed me yet”. The process of warming up the milk takes so long when he’s screaming the house down, I want to feed him as quick as possible. The amount he’s drinking is also increasing and varies from feed to feed, so we don’t always prepare or heat up the right amount, so we can extend the feed and how unhappy he is as we wait for the next bottle to warm up. We’re also going away in a few weeks and have been using the pre-made bottles when we go out and they’re such a faff/are so expensive.

I’d love to hear what others are doing, how are you preparing formula quickly for your LO at night, in the day at home and when you’re out? Is there anything you’d recommend we get to help with this?

My LO is 9 weeks old and we’ve been combi feeding since birth. We get a couple of sole breastfeeding feeds in a day, but most are BF with a formula top up and at night we bottle feed and I pump (I only produce enough for 1 or 1/2 a feed). We’re prep either full bottles or a big bottle of formula (which we pour out from) a couple of times a day and store it in the fridge, then heat up the milk when we feed him.

We’re hitting a couple of challenges with prepping his bottles. Firstly, he goes from zero to 100 when he’s hungry, or hasn’t been fed enough or there is no more breast milk. Seriously no feeding cues to “I’m starving why haven’t you fed me yet”. The process of warming up the milk takes so long when he’s screaming the house down, I want to feed him as quick as possible. The amount he’s drinking is also increasing and varies from feed to feed, so we don’t always prepare or heat up the right amount, so we can extend the feed and how unhappy he is as we wait for the next bottle to warm up. We’re also going away in a few weeks and have been using the pre-made bottles when we go out and they’re such a faff/are so expensive.

I’d love to hear what others are doing, how are you preparing formula quickly for your LO at night, in the day at home and when you’re out? Is there anything you’d recommend we get to help with this?

My LO is 9 weeks old and we’ve been combi feeding since birth. We get a couple of sole breastfeeding feeds in a day, but most are BF with a formula top up and at night we bottle feed and I pump (I only produce enough for 1 or 1/2 a feed). We’re prep either full bottles or a big bottle of formula (which we pour out from) a couple of times a day and store it in the fridge, then heat up the milk when we feed him.

We’re hitting a couple of challenges with prepping his bottles. Firstly, he goes from zero to 100 when he’s hungry, or hasn’t been fed enough or there is no more breast milk. Seriously no feeding cues to “I’m starving why haven’t you fed me yet”. The process of warming up the milk takes so long when he’s screaming the house down, I want to feed him as quick as possible. The amount he’s drinking is also increasing and varies from feed to feed, so we don’t always prepare or heat up the right amount, so we can extend the feed and how unhappy he is as we wait for the next bottle to warm up. We’re also going away in a few weeks and have been using the pre-made bottles when we go out and they’re such a faff/are so expensive.

I’d love to hear what others are doing, how are you preparing formula quickly for your LO at night, in the day at home and when you’re out? Is there anything you’d recommend we get to help with this?