sma gold

[carliex]

I am Brestfeeding and toping my baby up with sma gold as she is such a hungry baby, but i was wondering how long you can keep a bottle ready made in the fridge for? or if you can at all?

[Mrs Y]

It is advisable to prepare bottles only as and when you need them. It is perfectly safe to already have cooled, boiled water in the bottles, but don't add the milk powder until baby's ready for feeding.

Once a bottle has been prepared, however, it will usually remain safe to use for up to two hours in a fridge. If it begins to smell 'off' or look lumpy before this time, though, then it should be discarded.

Hope that helps, and good luck!

[redcrx]

id say maximum 12 hours but in coldest part of fridge, not on the door.

the cartons are handy and will store in fridge for 24 hours after opening

[tamirra]

http://news.scotsman.com/salmonellaoutbreaks/N ightmare-baby-formula-advice-for.2790912.jp

[carron81]

i think this is one of these things that will always have different opinions
i tried my daughter on sma to start with & was making one bottle at at time by the guidelines. she was sick constantly, after every bottle. she was bringing most of it up.
so, i started looking into it. because i new my mums generation used to make up the whole days milk in batches. so i done that.
she was better, but only with the morning bottle. the reason i think this is because i used to take this one out before bed time and let it chill and just give it to her that way when she woke.

once i discovered this i started looking into it more &speaking to mums on other forums i found that a lot of mums were making up bottles with cold boiled water. one bottle at a time.

i was interested in this & spoke to a friend. when i told her she told me thats how she'd been making her bottles. her wee boy was 2 months premature. she breast fed for the first 2 weeks then she had to go to hospital everyday once she was home, she made her bottles this way and the hospital staff were happy to serve bottles done this way

i then found out another friend whos baby was 1 month premature was also doing this

i called up a friend who worked in a nursery and she said a lot of mums done this as they weren't allowed to make up milk anymore. so either mums done it this way or had to bring in pre bought ready made milk

i then read the WHO guidelines over and over again. and it does say.if no access to boiling water use bottle water. and this got me thinking about this way and how all my friends make it up and how the hospitals seem to be accepting it

we have a lot of power cuts in our area so its good to have a few bottles of evian or volvic just in case.

[carron81]

this is how i now make it

there is people that dont do it this way, iv seen nurse friends do it this way. my other nurse friend makes up the bottles of water in advance and then heat that then ad the powder. i think as a mother you see what works for you

for me i tried every way for a couple of weeks at a time & this is the only way shes not sick