I've never heard the "to kill bacteria in the formula" thing. Is that something new in the last, uh, 6 years?
I'd always thought heating the water was just to get it to about the same temp as, ah, fresh breastmilk because some babies might be picky about temperature.
My kids both "came" already used to room-temp water used in their formula, which made it soooooo much easier to deal with; had a filter on the tap water in the kitchen, and/or used bottled (filtered) water. That way the time from mix to mouth was approx 1 minute, max, sometimes less than that. (I had this nifty multi-compartment container, into which you could pre-measure formula, so when the time came all you had to do was put water into a bottle, dump in one compartment's worth, snap on the lid and shake. Whee!)
Even with heating water, that should only add, what, 30 seconds tops? Still not as convenient, of course, as a breast, but there you go.
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Date: 2011-12-02 09:25 pm (UTC)I'd always thought heating the water was just to get it to about the same temp as, ah, fresh breastmilk because some babies might be picky about temperature.
My kids both "came" already used to room-temp water used in their formula, which made it soooooo much easier to deal with; had a filter on the tap water in the kitchen, and/or used bottled (filtered) water. That way the time from mix to mouth was approx 1 minute, max, sometimes less than that. (I had this nifty multi-compartment container, into which you could pre-measure formula, so when the time came all you had to do was put water into a bottle, dump in one compartment's worth, snap on the lid and shake. Whee!)
Even with heating water, that should only add, what, 30 seconds tops? Still not as convenient, of course, as a breast, but there you go.