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 should want to do anything you can to keep your baby healthy. Keep your baby’s bottles clean and stored in the fridge to prevent any harmful bacteria or germs that could cause stomach problems.

Wash all bottles, nipples, and bottle caps in warm water with a mild soap, or in the dishwasher. 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. This takes the additives out of the water that could make your baby sick. Which is similar to babies sometimes. When you use a new clean bottle use it one time only then it will need to be cleaned again.

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 mixes 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.

Opened formula doesn’t keep for very long. Amy formula that is mixed and not used within a twenty four hour period should be thrown away. Ready to use formula is good for forty eight hours after it is opened, just like mixes usually. Powered formula is good for one month after it has been opened. Any formula that is not used in the bottle that your baby has drank out of should be thrown out so germs will not multiply.

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