Comments on: How To Prepare a Formula Feed http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/ Life, Parenting, Making a Living Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dennis J. Cole http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/#comment-42852 Dennis J. Cole Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:34:37 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/#comment-42852 Yea, too many people take it things for granted like germs and illnesses. I will say that sometimes it seems that there are many things that they go overboard with. My neice had to drink sugar water a lot when she was younger, because she couldn't keep any formula down. We tried every formula imaginable. From cheap to most expensive and all the special formulas that are made to help the baby keep the formula down. So against the doctors and books we used brown sugar and water and it really helped at keeping her stomach calm. This is just an example of one of the many things you are not supposed to do, but as you see we used it as a last alternative. If you do the things that they say you shouldn't do anymore just be very cautious, as not to cause harm to your baby. A little common sense helps to. Yea, too many people take it things for granted like germs and illnesses. I will say that sometimes it seems that there are many things that they go overboard with. My neice had to drink sugar water a lot when she was younger, because she couldn’t keep any formula down. We tried every formula imaginable. From cheap to most expensive and all the special formulas that are made to help the baby keep the formula down. So against the doctors and books we used brown sugar and water and it really helped at keeping her stomach calm. This is just an example of one of the many things you are not supposed to do, but as you see we used it as a last alternative. If you do the things that they say you shouldn’t do anymore just be very cautious, as not to cause harm to your baby. A little common sense helps to.

]]> By: t-bird http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/#comment-36336 t-bird Tue, 15 May 2007 11:26:56 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/#comment-36336 hey, I did all sorts of "absolutely not recomended" things and she lived to tell the tale! Typically it was a not quite properly fried egg on holiday that gave the pair of us salmonella not a bottle of made up too long milk! I figure she had enough antibodies in the breast feeds she got along side teh formula to protect her from any dodgy hygeine on my part. hey, I did all sorts of “absolutely not recomended” things and she lived to tell the tale! Typically it was a not quite properly fried egg on holiday that gave the pair of us salmonella not a bottle of made up too long milk! I figure she had enough antibodies in the breast feeds she got along side teh formula to protect her from any dodgy hygeine on my part.

]]> By: Little Mummy http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/#comment-36238 Little Mummy Mon, 14 May 2007 20:07:15 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/#comment-36238 Thanks T-bird, it seems the guidelines change on a regular basis, hence my warning to read the instructions. Interesting that the powder should be kept in the fridge, we used to keep it in the cupboard. The rules changed on not keeping made up bottles in the fridge when we had Erin, but we refrigerated bottles and she's ok... Thanks T-bird, it seems the guidelines change on a regular basis, hence my warning to read the instructions. Interesting that the powder should be kept in the fridge, we used to keep it in the cupboard.

The rules changed on not keeping made up bottles in the fridge when we had Erin, but we refrigerated bottles and she’s ok…

]]> By: t-bird http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/#comment-36236 t-bird Mon, 14 May 2007 19:57:45 +0000 http://www.littlemummy.com/2007/05/14/how-to-prepare-a-formula-feed/#comment-36236 Thougth the latest guidelines were to use hot water, not more than half an hour since it was boiled, add in the formula, mix (whilst being careful not to scald yourself :roll:) and leave to cool until a nice comfortably warm temp? Something to do with a bacteria that can grow in the formula within a day or two of opening the can, which aparently should now be kept in the fridge, not out on the counter like I used to, although I can't find the reference to that (was on a forum a while ago) Tehre's a PDF here (with a really cute baby pic near the end - you know one of those with the really scrummy chubby legs!) that is aparently the latest wise words from the health dept http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4123619 Going back to when Aprilia was small enough to need milk, I used to get cheaper formula via the health centre as part of our Tax Credits. I'm not sure that happens any more though Thougth the latest guidelines were to use hot water, not more than half an hour since it was boiled, add in the formula, mix (whilst being careful not to scald yourself :roll: ) and leave to cool until a nice comfortably warm temp? Something to do with a bacteria that can grow in the formula within a day or two of opening the can, which aparently should now be kept in the fridge, not out on the counter like I used to, although I can’t find the reference to that (was on a forum a while ago) Tehre’s a PDF here (with a really cute baby pic near the end – you know one of those with the really scrummy chubby legs!) that is aparently the latest wise words from the health dept
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4123619

Going back to when Aprilia was small enough to need milk, I used to get cheaper formula via the health centre as part of our Tax Credits. I’m not sure that happens any more though

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