Should I still be warming the milk for my bottle babies, or can I just pour it straight from the fridge and feed it to them? They are 7 weeks old and 4.5 weeks old now. Thanks, Jamie
No I wouldnt give it to them cold. I would always warm it up. I use the microwave and warm it up for a couple seconds - real simple and easy. The kids can get stomach achs from the cold milk - their bodies cant handle it cold.
Thanks Stacey! That's what I do (use the microwave), but just thought I'd check to make sure it was necessary. Jamie
I use the microwave and my finger. When it is just a bit warm, barely warmer than my finger its good. If you want to use a thermometer I think 100F is good.
I check it on my wrist. My bottle baby last year was SO SO picky that if it was to cold or to warm he wouldnt drink it - I have to have it JUST RIGHT :roll: I tried to break him of the habit but he wouldnt eat all day! SO I just went back to makign sure it was where he liked it.
I also use my wrist to... when it feels cozy warm... not hot .....is it safe to give to the kid.....but I ..."do not" use the microwave ...it kills the good antibodies in the colostrum/milk ....What I do is ....run hot tap water .....get a bowel... put the hot water in it ...and put a bottle in the middle of the bowel..with the milk in the bottle........check on it once in a while...put the lid on it then...kinda swoosh it and shake it around ....to mix the temp more evenly....to get a more accurate temp.... on your wrist....if it needs more warming ...put it back in ....until ready.....and when it is ....you can feed the kid.... :wink:
I guess I am weird cause I make it freash for every bottle. YYYAAAA I have findly wheen 4 of them and four more to go.
:thumbup: No you are not weird at all.....some don't have access to fresh milk at all times... so they have improvise ......I am happy that you get to wean 4 babies....that must ease your mind... :wink:
General rule is warm it like you would a baby bottle - to blood temp. But I have found individual kids like it slightly warmer or slightly cooler. Only feed cold milk if you are feeding it right from day 1 and ad lib. You can get some good results that way, but you shouldnt chop and change them from warm to cold or vice versa. I dont heat colostrum in the microwave, use warm water for that but normal milk and replacer I warm in the microwave and it is fine. I make up about 3 - 4 L of milk at one time. Mine get restricted to 1L per kid/lamb per day. So depending on how many I am feeding, sometimes that doesnt last very long lol
When we raised bottle babies, ours preferred warm milk over cold milk and we used the microwave as well.
