Baby's formula preparation methods

SINGLE BOTTLE METHODS

The single bottle method of formula preparation is a boon to the busy mother. One bottle is made at each feeding, and this can be used as a supplement for the breast-fed baby, or as a time-saver by the mother who is traveling.


Any type of formula can be used. The most popular are the proprietary formulas, liquid or powder, or the ready-to-use formulas.


PROPRIETARY FORMULA

When using the single bottle method with a proprietary formula, wash all bottles, nipples, and caps in hot soapy water and rinse thoroughly in hot running water. At each washing, use a bottle brush to insure the removal of all dried formula.


Add the prescribed amount of tap water to each bottle. Put nipples and caps on loosely. Place bottles in sterilizer or large covered saucepan. Pour in three inches of water. After water has come to a boil, cover, and sterilize for twenty-five minutes.


Remove sterilizer from heat. Remove bottle rack and cool for twenty minutes. Tighten caps on sterilized bottles and store in any convenient location, at room temperature.


At feeding time, add prescribed amount of powdered or liquid formula to single bottle of water. Cap bottle, shake well, and feed. Usually no heating is required.


Or, at feeding time, wash a bottle, cap, and a nipple in hot soapy water and rinse thoroughly in hot running water. Place in a pan of water and boil for 5 minutes. Remove bottle, cap, and nipple with tongs. Pour prescribed ounces of water from pan in which bottle was sterilized into bottle. Add prescribed amount of powdered or liquid formula. Attach sterile nipple, shake, and feed.


DISPOSABLE BOTTLES

Just as mythical product designers have worked to build a better mousetrap, so have designers worked to produce a better baby bottle. On the market today, there are several types of disposable bottles, specially designed with you and your infant in mind. Efficiency and convenience are now available in the form of a handy nurser kit.


One such kit comes complete with everything you will need, except the formula. The package contains pre-sterilized, disposable formula sacs, an automatic expander, an unbreakable, heat-resistant plastic bottle holder, and a soft, pliable rubber nipple.


Using the single bottle method of preparation, wash nipples with hot, soapy water and rinse. Turn nipples inside out to wash thoroughly. No brush is needed. Place cone-shaped automatic expander, bottle caps, and nipples in a saucepan of water and boil for five minutes.


Remove expander with tongs and place on flat surface to dry. After tearing the disposable formula sac from the roll at perforations, hold sac between thumb and forefinger and gently slide thumb back and forth until perforations break and the sac opens fully. Do not put fingers inside formula sac.


Slip formula sac onto expander and down to the ridge clearly marked on the expander. Next, place bottle holder over the sac and push down until the rim of the bottle rests on the base of the expander. Remove the bottle, fill with formula, and feed.


Another manufacturer has produced a bottle which is disposable in the truest sense of the word. It is a jar-shaped glass bottle which is pre-filled with formula and capped with a disposable metal cap.


To prepare a single feeding, simply unscrew the cap, attach any standard sterilized nipple unit, and feed your baby. Warming is a matter of preference—not necessity. Unopened bottles need no refrigeration.
Ready-to-feed bottles are ideal for travel.

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