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The Right Way to Use Baby Bottles

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.  You should keep the baby bottles clean and store them in the fridge to stop any harmful germs from growing, the germs might cause some stomach problems.

Be sure to wash the bottles in the dishwasher or in warm water with a mild soap.  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.  When the water is boiled it takes most of the additives out that could ham your baby.  Use a bottle only one time then clean it again using the same process.

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.  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.

Any formula that is opened will not keep very long.  If it is a bottle of unused formula it is good for 24 hours after it has been opened.  Ready to use formula is good for forty eight hours after it is opened.  Power formula is good for thirty days 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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