It's hard being a new mom (or even an experienced mom to a new baby) and sometimes we do things we know we shouldn't, despite what all the experts say. But this is a safe place to share your secrets (PM me)—we'll never tell.
This Week's Secret:
My daughter is 4 months old and I know the whole, “you are supposed to warm the bottle” nonsense. My mom is always telling me, my friends are always telling me, and on and on. But I give my baby bottles of pumped breast milk directly from the fridge and she doesn't seem to mind at all. So is this really so bad? I feel like I am being some kind of insensitive mom and not attending to her needs in the best way possible, but it also seems like a waste of time if I can just skip the step. Am I wrong? -- Anonymous
I never warmed a pumped milk bottle once. And most of the formula moms I know served them room temperature as well. The whole “warming” thing seems kind of like a racket, no?
The thing is, once your baby gets used to taking warm milk, good luck getting them to take milk from the fridge once they are 1 year old and 2 years old and so on. It's good for kids to take the milk without warming if they will. If not, then warm. But if you can skip a step and your baby still eats? Why not?
Do you have any advice for this mom?
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I gave up warming the bottles at about 4 months, and kicked myself for not doing it sooner, since my daughter didn't give a rat's ass about the temperature. Sigh. Live and learn!
Just to add I remember reading here a few weeks ago that it is recommended by forumla companies to boil tap water to be used with their formula to get rid of any bacteria in the water.......
It ain't hurtin' 'em to give it to 'em cold! Here was my family's experience: When my niece was born, my sister-in-law was hell-bent on being the perfect mother down to the very last detail, including warming the bottles. What ended up happening was my niece, Princess Pickypants, would then only take beverages heated to a certain temperature throughout not just babyhood, but toddlerhood as well. It was a huge pain when they were out and about! Now, when my first nephew was born, my sister-in-law never heated his bottles simply because she didn't have time. The pickyness never developed. Kid would drink anything you gave him, even straight from the refrigerator! It was awesome.
We've never warmed any beverages for our son. He's two now and takes his milk straight from the refrigerator.
With my son we just used room temp. water for his formula. My daughter is exculsivly BF so I don't know how she will do when we start giving her other things to drink.
That being said I filtered my dd water in a brita or one of those pitchers and kept it room temp so I never had to warm the bottles. I thought it was a waste of time as long as it was ice cold till she got a little older. I see nothing wrong with it unless her dd won't take it. Which she does, so no harm...