Tommee tippee go prep

I never knew this about prep machine. My girl is unbelievably windy I've never know anything like it. She poops on every feed to so unsure if it's the formula too but HV said to carry on with it until next week and see if she puts on any weight as she is dropping off the line. I use to make the bottles of water up with my other w children (I know you shouldn't) so I just use a normal flask for my little one at night and when we are out. I may stop with the prep machine and see if that stops the wind

Hello ☺️ we had the prep machine and this is why we stopped using it. Our boy takes 4oz every feed so we boil the kettle and fill to 2oz with boiled water, mix then use 2oz of cooled boiled water. I keep the cooled boiled water in a flask or a sterile bottle. I bring the kettle upstairs at night with the flask of cooled boiled water. It's easy once you get into it. Hope this helps 🙏 ☺️ x

Also this makes the bottle the perfect temp for our wee one as he doesn't like cold bottles x

My Nuby rapid cool doesn’t completely cool it down when I do the hot shot method when the water is scalding straight out the kettle but I just stick it in a jug of cold water for a few minutes whilst I sort baby out x

Great, thank you all!! We’re on bottle two of no perfect prep, just hoping it makes a difference. He’ll still be windy, just hopefully not at trapped as before!

@Leanne my HV told me about it at the 2 week check but I kind of ignored her as I know that HV’s are really against the prep machines. I used the prep machine with my 6 year old in 2017 and he was windy too, but I just ploughed on! My LO doesn’t poo after each feed, but just gets wind trapped! Hope your LO starts to gain weight soon and that you get it figured out x

We also stopped using the prep machine and wind was one of the reasons. We now use the nuby rapid cool for every bottle but make it up completely in the bottle (add formula, add measured boiled water, shake and wait for it to cool, then wash with warm soapy water, rinse and leave to sterilise in Milton cold water steriliser)

Oh, we have 2 rapid cools btw just so we always have one sterilised

@Ocean brilliant, thank you! How soon after stopping the prep did you see a difference?

We saw slight improvement after a few days, we've not used it now for almost 2 weeks and now he only suffers with his wind every few days. When we used it, it was multiple times a day he was screaming whilst passing gas and often went days without pooping. Now he's at least once a day

I use the rapid cool method. He’s on 4oz. I do 1oz hot shot into the bottle, add the 4 scooos of formula & shake. In the rapid cool I add 3oz of boiling water and cool it down in the rapid cool & then add it to the bottle containing the hot shot & formula. Perfect temp bottle every time! We use this method during the day, during the night & when out the house. Just use a flask and keep the boiling water in there. Also stopped using the prep machine as it made him really poorly & sick!

@Ocean great, thank you! Hoping for an improvement. He’s been a little better today, but still so fussy with his bottles! Hopefully we’ll get there x

@Jasmine great, thank you! I tried this last night with the go prep and the milk was very hot still, not sure if I did something wrong 🤷‍♀️

@Ashleigh are you tipping it upside down to activate the thermometer? With the rapid cool you have to switch it on, and then tip the liquid upside down until the green light fades, switch it back on again to show the amber light and then leave for 2 mins & repeat the process until the light is green and it’s always cooled down loads. I don’t know how the Tommee tippee one works xx

Did you hold the bottle upside down for 5 seconds to check for the blue star? I made the mistake once of just seeing the blue star and pouring it into bottle but it was still too hot (luckily I check on my wrist still) so now when I see the blue star I make sure to hold upside for 5 seconds to double check x

@Harriet yeah I did this, it just doesn’t cool it enough. If I make a full bottle with the formula in then it’s perfect temp. However, if I try to use it for hot shot method, it’s too hot still

It may be that there’s too much boiling in first for the hot shot? So when adding the cool it’s too still too hot