Feeding Tuesday: Formula Mixing Pitcher
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I’ll be honest: as a breastfeeding mom, I’m most familiar with making single servings of formula for times when, er, Mommy couldn’t feed the baby (or, yes, for times we’ve supplemented, or for purposes of mixing with cereal). Still, I wanted to throw the formula-feeding moms one since that’s obviously a valid choice that’s been underrepresented with our nursing/pumping-friendly picks. So formula moms — what are your favorite products? The pictured product, Dr. Brown’s Formula Mixing Pitcher, is highly rated on Amazon, with 598 customer reviews and 4.5 stars — it makes up to 32 ounces at a time with minimal air, it’s BPA free, and all parts are dishwasher safe. Oh yes: and it’s marked down from $19 to $14 (and eligible for Prime). Formula Mixing Pitcher
(In general, should I include feeding products in the mix (along with nursing and pumping-friendly picks) for Feeding Tuesdays, in the interest of sparking discussion and sharing tips?)
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just don’t confuse this with your french press in the am.
I would definitely be in favor of including feeding supplies for feeding tuesdays!
Any advice on what a 6 month old should wear to sleep? He was in a swaddle me, and when he outgrew that a merlin’s magic sleepsuit. Now he has outgrown the sleepsuit and was rolling over in it. He is 6 months and wears 12 month size in most brands. He had been wearing just pjs for the past month or so, but now that it is cooling off, he is so cold. Should I do sleepers with a sleep sack over it?
DH and I are touring the daycare we plan on using on Thursday. Any suggestions for things to look out for or questions to ask? Thanks!
I like the idea of feeding posts that reach beyond nursing but mostly impact working women. Lunch boxes, meal planning apps, handy daycare or school bags that are easy to carry but can fit a lunch box (seriously, how do moms carry all this stuff?!!!), posts about tools and apps for feeding myself, it would all be helpful. I really appreciated the thread recently about feeding toddlers; I’ve got a few months until we hit that point, but it was nice to get a preview. Anything that can spur those kinds of discussions is valuable in my book.
OK. Tips, please. Or maybe I just need commiseration, I don’t know.
Last night my daughter had a difficult night with multiple nighttime wakings. Lately I have been asking my SO to man up and take half the nighttime wakings – which he never did until about 3 weeks ago. So as a result, both of us had a little less sleep than usual last night. Well, this morning I did my normal morning routine which involved getting baby up, nursing baby, changing and dressing baby, getting myself dressed and groomed (I shower at night these days), making breakfast for everyone (while SO watched baby), putting final touches on baby’s daycare lunch (mostly made the night before), gobbling down my breakfast, and then zooming upstairs for 4 minutes to put on my makeup before racing out the door. I’m sure many of you are familiar with this routine. All SO had to do was get himself showered and dressed, feed the baby breakfast, eat his own breakfast, and watch the baby while I did everything else.
Well, when I came downstairs to put my coat and shoes on (2 minutes earlier than usual, by the way), SO already had the baby and himself in the car, motor running, waiting for me (but of course hadn’t taken care of details such as putting her lunch in the car, etc.). Good, you say. But it wasn’t, because he didn’t do it out of a spirit of helpfulness. Instead, when I got in the car he was all grumpy and when I called him on it, he complained that he was tired of being late for work (he isn’t, ever), why am I always late, can’t I go faster in the morning, etc. I responded by saying no, I couldn’t go faster, I was already moving as fast as I could, and if he was concerned about the time we were leaving the house, we could either get up earlier in the morning or he could find some other way of helping me out more to speed things up. He then said, why should I have to help you when you are the one being late? I said, because we are a team and we all need to get out the door at the same time, and half of what I do in the morning is to get LO ready to go. Anyway, yadda yadda yadda.
I know this is probably partly because he was grumpy after too little sleep last night, but do any of you have any tips about how you have streamlined things, or how you share responsibilities in the morning? It is always a bit of a race to get out of the house but I already wake up at 6 to wake and nurse the baby (SO usually showers while I am doing that) and we should be able to get out of the house by 7:25 without issue. Tips, hints, and commiseration appreciated. Thanks!
ETA: Wow, this was long. Sorry.
We formula fed from day one and the best thing I got was the Baby Brezza formula maker (link to follow). It was pricey and it’s not that hard to make a bottle, but considering the fact that you use it multiple times a day for a year it was well worth the price to me. And it made those 4am, baby-screaming-on-your-hip feedings a little bit easier.
So I am just really angry and frustrated with my whole personal situation today. Yesterday, H tried to take baby from daycare without my knowledge or consent. Fortunately, daycare didn’t allow it! Today, H emailed me a long email about how he wants to get back together and he loves me so much, but I need to change to make him feel more appreciated. I feel angry and manipulated and I want him out of my life and out of my baby’s life, but I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. I wish “verbal and mental abuse and manipulation” were valid reasons for a restraining order. Unfortunately, I am told that I need “concrete examples” which are impossible to come up with. /endrant
How long can you store mixed formula for? I thought it was only a couple hours… but if people are mixing it for the whole day, I must be wrong. By the time we started supplementing with formula, we didn’t need it in the volumes that would have made this picture useful, but I can see how it would be great if you’re preparing lots of bottles every day.
We have this pitcher and love it! It is so nice to be able to mix a full day’s worth of formula once and then just use it as needed. Especially in the early weeks when we were still figuring out how much the baby needed each feeding.
Something I found handy, for those who are planning to at least use some formula, is to sign up on the Enfamil website. I signed up there and last week got a giant box with two full size containers of formula powder (newborn and infant), and a number of those individually wrapped serving packets. They also included a little booklet about nursing, combo feeding, and formula feeding. With the stigma surrounding formula these days it can be hard to find information on how to formula feed, and I found the booklet very useful.
Also, a shout-out to the Dr. Brown stuff in general– I’ve been exclusively nursing up until this point, but my baby has had one bottle of formula three days in a row from a Dr. Brown bottle, and she had no issues whatsoever switching back to nursing. Apparently the Dr. Brown bottles are supposed to most closely mimic the feel and speed of nursing. I have no idea if that’s true or it’s just marketing, but it’s worked for us.
This pitcher is the greatest! No air bubbles at all! You can make a whole day’s worth and stick it in the fridge to use as needed. We used Similac organic, and the organic formulas have kind of a grittier texture than the others, so it’s really great for mixing those.
I also used it when I was going through my stash of frozen milk bc I would mix the thawed milk with some formula to make it last longer.
My other formula tip, even if you’re planning on breastfeeding, is to take the free formula from the hospital and sign up for the formula rewards checks. The stuff will probably come in handy at some point, or you can donate it to a local diaper bank or food bank. I think the lactation consultants at the hospitals have duped people into not taking advantage of this, but you totally should.
As an only occasional formula feeder, my favorite formula product was the premeasured sticks that only made 4 oz. Technically once opened a can of powdered formula was only good for a month – but I could leave these sticks in the diaper bag or with my mother and mother in law and know that they would last for a lot longer, and they were pre-measured so I didn’t need to worry about leaving them with a scoop, etc. Plus I signed up for the formula coupons to my house, my parents, my MILs and again to my house under my maiden name, so with a$5 coupon that brought them down to $5-$7 – totally worth it.
http://www.target.com/p/similac-advance-powder-packets-16-count/-/A-11056309
On a separate note – I am so grateful that my daycare didn’t require us to mix up the formula for them. They provided Similac free, AND they washed and sterilized the bottles for us nightly. They also had a fullsize fridge and freezer so I could leave both fresh and frozen breastmilk – it was great. And once the kids start eating food, they provide a healthy breakfast, lunch and snack daily. I never knew this wasn’t common until I started talking to other daycare parents. If you have the option to go with a daycare that provides food – go with it, it is so worth it!
So I’m freaking myself out here. I just found out I was pregnant and I’m about 6 weeks along. I have my first OB appt next week. Hubby and I haven’t told anyone at all yet. I’m terrified. We were trying, and I love babies, but I’m still terrified.
I also just gained about 15 lbs for other reasons recently, and it all seems to be in my belly. I wasn’t that self-conscious before, but now that I know I’m pregnant, but it’s a big secret, I don’t want anyone to see my belly! (My weight has fluctuated in the past, and strangers have asked me if I’m pregnant before when I wasn’t.) It feels so weird to be hiding my bigger belly when the baby is still the size of a poppyseed. Like I’m faking.
I feel like I’m putting all my anxiety about the pregnancy into my gut and giving myself indigestion, all the while trying to suck it in when anyone’s around.
Our oldest daughter had reflux and this pitcher was one of the best baby purchases we made. It cut down on air bubbles and we noticed that helped her spit up much less.