when do you add your powder formula to the steralized water. I was speaking with a public health nurse and she told me this whole story on how the WHO (world health orginaztion) just changed the "rules" for powdered formula. They made me take Bella off of powder until she was 3 months...now it's 2 months that you can start them on powder.
They told me to turn on the tap...let the cold water run for 2 mins...boil the water..let it cool for 30 mins and then mix in the formula. They said that the water has to be hot enough to kill the potential harmful bacteria (that has this big long name that I can't remember) that could cause a child like meningitis in infants (which she said is RARE but possible) She said it was b/c when they manufacture powder formula they cannot make it at a high enough temp to kill all of the bacteria while keeping it in a powder form. I was so frustrated. The only good thing about making it this way is the formula is not grainy like it is when you mix it with lukewarm or room temp water.

I wanted to keep a glass container with a lid on my counter filled with steralized water and make a fresh bottle everytime DD needs to eat and she said that that was a big NO-NO now!! HOw do you ladies do it with powder formula? Have you heard the same thing??

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I've never heard of that, I just followed the instructions on the formula can when I made it for B all the time.

I never heard of that either. I used bottled water so I knew that it was safe enough to drink. To think that the powdered formula is made with bugs in them and they don't get rid of them is just insane! I'm going to go look that up.

I made my bottles on the spot. I had a 2/5 gallon water jug sitting on the counter and I filled, added the powder, shook, and fed. When they were younger, I'd also nuke the water so it was warm, then I'd shake it good so that there were no "hot spots" in the bottle.

well, I looked it up on the WHO website and they do have new 'guidelines'.

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page 20 is the home-use instructions.


What I'd say based on the data is
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they assume that the formula will give a baby salmanilla just by drinking it but the statistics are pretty small and I have no idea how they can say it's the formula that's causing it and not poor heath practices at home to begin with. (like setting a nipple on a contaminated countertop with salmanilla already on it (which is pretty easy for alot of people)


After reading that, what I got out of it was... it's BAD BAD BAD to make an entire batch of formula for a whole day and you should make the bottles one at a time.

The data in the guidelines even says that the risks of getting salmonilla are actually not really there if the bottle is consumed immediately no matter what the initial water temperature. So that tells me that it's not required to boil water first before loading it into the sterile bottle.


Also, I guess my take is... if you're REALLY concerned about the risks of bottle feeding, you're better off trying to breastfeed because that's 10x less complicated and 50% less dangerous than formula feeding. (and yes, the 50% was an actual statistical number in the document as well)

Wow, interesting. I have never heard that.

I pre-fill Joy's bottles with bottled water. When it's time to eat I add her formula. I guess I've been doing it all wrong. Really though, what's the harm of the water sitting in a clean bottle for a day?