Weaning question

[sophiechristophy]

Back to the original post - baby rice serves no nutritional benefit to the baby, so maybe worth just skipping it all together.

[Fidgetsmum]

Agreed Sophiechristophy - the only thing it is doing for a short while is extending his wake up time from 5am to 6.30 or 7am. Frankly, right now, that's a Godsend as the 5ams were starting to wear me down. He's had pear, apple and tomorrow he'll be having some of the butternut squash that's just finished roasting in the oven. Thanks for everyone's information - as a Formula novice, it's been good to see two opinions.

[sophiechristophy]

sleep is a blessed thing :)

[Fuschia]

Saila I think you are totally worrying About the wrong thIng

Not using hot water as suggested because you think the danger if destroying protein is greater than from formula contamination, despite all the evidence, is rather bizarre to me! Still, good luck to you

I do suggest peoPle check it out properly though, before deciding not to fill the recommendatiOn

[Saila]

Fuschia - I think we have our wires crossed here. The most important thing is that ppl use water that has been boiled. to sterilise the water.

The point I don't bother with is adding the powder at 70 degrees (half an hour after it has boiled) to remove the rare bacteria that is found in the powder.

I just boil to sterilse the water (only for small babies, not toddlers) and then use cooled boiled water for the feed. That way you don't grow up a load of new bacteria by leaving warm milk around and it doesn't take 40 mins to make a feed.

Adding boilding water to milk powder is defo a no no. which is why the advice, instructions on the back of every can, say to wait for th boiing water to cool before adding.

Why would they say wait otherwise?

Why on earth would I worry about a bacteria that has never caused an infection in this country?

so that's less than 1/60million chance... i more likely going to win the lottery 4x over... not just a small risk but a ridiculously small risk

Not sure I'm worrying about the wrong thing here...

[Fuschia]

Adding hot water to the powder to kill the rare bit potentially fatal bacteria in the powder is key though

From a risk point of view, the incidence is low but the danger is very high