Ready to Feed Formula - I feel guilty but it’s so easy!! Anyone else doing the same?

My baby is finally here! We’re on day 2 at home and I love those little 2oz ready to feed formula bottles. We’re exclusively formula feeding and I had prepared for all the bottle sterilizing and powder mixing - I did so much research on how to mix powder (experts I consulted advised using filtered water that is boiling on contact with the powder to kill potential bacteria in the powder). Now, I’m realizing these pricey little bottles are just so much easier and this chunky baby is already polishing off the 2oz in an hour so we’re not wasting them. Plus I found reusable nipples on Amazon which cuts the cost per feed way down (each 2oz bottle is like $1.30, the disposable nipple is another $1+ depending where you get them). I also discovered the bottles are recyclable, so that means we can use them and feel a little less bad about waste. I’m still feeling guilty though! Is this a ridiculous expense? I had imagined all this reheating bottles and a mini fridge in the nursery… popping open a room temp bottle is just so easy, baby doesn’t get too upset waiting. Has anyone else decided to splurge on the ready to feed formula?? They sell jugs of the liquid formula that’s way more cost effective and still eliminates the need to mix powder. The opens jug is good for 72hrs in the fridge (versus the little bottles that you have to use in one hour). So we can always transition to that when baby starts needing more. Still easier. What do you all think? Worth the price for our sanity??

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If you can afford it and it’s healthy for your baby then do it. I’m all for paying for things to save my sanity.

I'm just sharing my experience. I'm doing a mix of both this time. Supplementing with formula is wonderful to keep your sanity. If you can afford it, then do it. With my 1st, I struggled so hard to have enough breastmilk for my baby boy. I tried so hard for it. I had many a night where I cried my eyes out with chapped and / or splitting nipples and a crying infant. I had to supplement as it was too hard for me to produce for him. I'm on my second baby. This time, a girl. She is just as milk happy, but I'm producing so much more now. I can audibly hear her gulping down milk with breastfeeding. I'm feeling more fulfilled, but I do supplement with formula occasionally at night as I just can't do it forever at night. It was making me crazy and I think it is so worth it to have a healthy and happy baby.

There is also a baby brezza formula machine that I almost get for my first baby because she couldn’t latch. It is like a coffee machine but for formula and everyone I know that has it, loves it!! Although if you’re comfortable with those ready to feed and can afford it I don’t see why would it be a problem! There are 8oz ready to feed formulas that come in bottles too that we use to get with our first for when we were out and about and I didn’t feel comfortable to breastfeed and they work great too if your baby is eating more you can just use a smaller bottle and keep the rest in the fridge. https://babybrezza.com/products/formula-pro-advanced

My baby most of the time took 3-5oz per feed, which is hard to divide up with the small ready to feed bottles. So in a month or so you might have to find another solution. I mixed powder once at night in the Dr. Browns pitcher the entire next day's worth using a kitchen scale and kept it in the fridge. Your baby might be able to take fridge temp milk, which would make this even easier!

@Florencia I have one of these unopened! I have two concerns with it, first don’t you have to clean the filter every 4 bottles? Seems like I’d be cleaning filters all day! Second, is the water boiling when it contacts the powder? The lactation consultants at the hospital scared me about cronobacter (a bacteria) that can grow in baby formula and insisted water be boiling upon contact with the powder to kill any germs in the powder. I always thought the boiling was about sanitizing the water🤷‍♀️ Regardless, seems cronobacter is incredibly rare and the pediatrician didn’t seem to think I should worry about it. She said her clients love the Baby Brezza!Maybe I’ll have to take it out of the box. Did you get extra filters? CDC info on cronobacter: https://www.cdc.gov/cronobacter/prevention/index.html#:~:text=Overview,days%20or%20weeks%20of%20life.

I don’t have it so I wouldn’t know the exact number of times you need to clean the filters I’m sorry!!! My friends who have it, love it though! I never used boiling water for formula and I didn’t know about this. Thank you for the info!!

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