Question by Katy: Does any one not heat their babys formula?
I read on babycenter.com that there is no need to heat babys formula its just an added extra step for mom. Does anyone do this, serve it room temp? I heat my babys formula, just wondering what other mom’s do? Thanks
Also my baby is 17 days old and eats every 2-3 hours and eats 2-5 oz ever time. Anyone elses baby eat this much? Thanks!
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Answer by Mel
i heated my sons, but not my daughters. my daughter was first, and i did not heat hers, and had no problems. my son was breast fed and i had to pump while he was in the nicu so i heated his.
and yes, mine ate like lil monsters, lol.
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I heated for a while, but found that he really did not care. If I was pulling a prepped bottle out of the fridge then I would take the chill off, but if I was mixing it up fresh then it was served ar room temp.
As long as the water is either nursery water or you live in an area that chlorinates the water you can serve it at room temp. Depending on the baby that is. Some will not drink it unless it’s body temp. My son wouldn’t drink it until it was lukewarm at best. He’s still that way now at nearly 4 yrs old…will dawdle over a meal until it’s cold and then eat it down. Same with baths… He can’t stand for the water to be much more then lukewarm. He’ll scream it’s too hot even if it’s not even body temp yet.
I have heated and not heated, it hasnt really made a difference. If they are hungry, they eat.Its still the same nutritional value.
We’ve always started our children on room-tempurature formula, that way they are used to it when you want to mix some formula when you are away from home. It’s much easier than trying to get warm/hot water.
As for the amount he’s eating, sounds about right.
i used to feed my son heated formula when he was transitioning off breastmilk but soon gave it to him room temperature because it was easier. he wont take it chilled from the fridge however.
I have never heated my son’s bottles of formula. Use the tin as a guage for how much your newborn should be drinking. It sounds about right. You could also check with your doctor or health care nurse if you were concerned.
Room temperature formula is just fine if the baby is happy with it. However, since many people make up a whole days-worth of formula ahead of time, then it needs to be refrigerated, then warmed. Yes , that is a normal amount for baby to eat at his age.
i never really headed my sons formula. i always had it cold. When my baby left the hospital 11 months ago he was eating 5 oz that was at 3 days old every 2 1/2 hours! when he was about a month it was 6oz then since 4 months its been 8 oz.
I liked the playtex bottles with the plastic sleeve inside (the ones that have been around forever) – I found that you could squeeze more of the air out. Plus, they warm up pretty easily. I would fill a sauce pan with hot tap water, set the full bottle in it, change the baby and come back & test is on my arm. The diaper change was usually the perfect amount of time to just warm it up a bit. He just seemed to like it better that way. He ate 4 oz every 2-3 hours as soon as he came home from the hospital and picked up steam from there. He was never obese and it leveled out when he started on the baby food.
I used to suppliment with the powder formula. I found it very handy because I could make it while out. Just have the bottle filled with water and add the powder. So no I never heated it up but I mostly nursed.
Sounds like he is doing great. I don’t think there is a too much at this age.
Congratualtions!
I have two children and I always heated their bottles. My brother and sister inlaw also have two children and never heated their bottles. Their children both had colic and were very poor sleepers. I would say heat the bottles, even if its just to make them room temperature. Breast milk is best as the dr’s always say, and breast milk doesnt come out of the breast cold, so warming a bottle just makes it more ‘soothing and natural’, even if it is formula.
I heated my firstborn’s bottles all the time. By the time the third one came around I served room temp for about 2wks. She became very colicky and my experienced grandmother told me to warm the bottle. That fixed up everything. My friend, however doesn’t warm bottles and her baby is 1 month now and doing great. The baby feeds every 2-3 hrs and takes about 2-5oz at a time too.
i had my baby in march, and at first i heated them up a bit because room temp was a little cold, but during summer i always served at room temp, and sometimes added a little cool water. but no, there is no need to heat the bottle, and they are exactly correct, it just makes a hungry baby wait longer for its bottle. there is no medical proof that heating a bottle is better for baby! now that its starting to get cold again (in colorado) i just bought a bottle warmer for winter.
my baby is now 7wks old and i never heated her bottles…she doesnt seem to mine or care
I have always given my babies their formula room temperature. They never seemed to mind.
Sorry, I can’t help you on the amounts. My babies were breastfed (for the most part) until they were around 8 months old.
I heated the first daughter’s formula, but not the second.
My second I used slightly warmer than normal water to mix the formula, not overly warm though. Definitely warmer than room temp but not body temp like 98.6 or whatever.