Tips on How to Handle Baby Bottles the Right Way
If you bottle feed your baby or if you are planning on bottle feeding your new arrival, it is very important that you know how to handle baby bottles to prevent your baby from getting sick. You want to have a healthy and a happy baby. You should keep the baby bottles clean and store them in the fridge to stop any harmful germs from growing, the germs might cause some stomach problems.
Be sure to wash the bottles in the dishwasher or in warm water with a mild soap. When you have washed the bottles rinse then and out them in boiling water for five minutes prior to filling them with formula or breast milk.
Before you mix the formula you must boil the water you will be mixing it with and let it completely cool. When the water is boiled it takes most of the additives out that could ham your baby. Which is similar to babies sometimes. Use a bottle only one time then clean it again using the same process.
If you have to take the baby out for a long period of time and need formula, make certain that your baby drinks it within an hour if it is mixed formula or if it is breast milk. Obviously, this has nothing to do with baby bottles typically. You could also use powered formula if you formula feed your infant and take the boiled water separately this will allow you to mix the formula as it is needed.
Any formula that is opened will not keep very long. Amy formula that is mixed and not used within a twenty four hour period should be thrown away. Ready use formula that is opened is good for 48 hour after it has been opened, just like baby bottles usually. Power formula is good for thirty days after it has been opened. If your baby has not drank all the formula in their bottle, you need to throw the unused portion away, germs will go into the leftover milk.