Can You Put Baby Food In Bottle With Formula

Prepared infant formula can spoil if it is left out at room temperature.

Can you put baby food in bottle with formula. He is getting all he needs from formula right now. At our 2 month appointment my pedi also recommended that we put cereal in the bottle to help with spit up. Don tuse formula that has been at room temperature for more than two hours. Unless there s a medical reason for giving it early it s not worth jumping the gun.

By putting baby food in a bottle you make the baby have to suck much harder to get the food thereby increasing the chance for choking aspirating. If you dilute the formula with more water it will contain fewer calories per ounce and not provide enough calories for your baby to. It has helped his spitting up so much. The idea is that doing so will make the milk sit heavier in the belly.

I didn t want it to be super thick. It is safe to add infant formula to homemade baby food purees that you will freeze. If he isn t wanting to eat from a spoon he is probably not ready for solids. So we make 4 ounce bottles and i put a little under 2 tsp.

I think he said about a tsp per 2 ounces. If you do not start to use the prepared infant formula within 2 hours immediately store the bottle in the fridge and use it within 24 hours. Mixing formula with too much water is particularly risky. Too hard to handle.

Offering cereal in a bottle or even on a spoon before babies are developmentally ready can increase the likelihood of gagging and or inhaling the thickened mixture into their lungs. Renee you say if you re formula feeding it s still important to follow recommendations of not offering anything but formula or breastmilk prior to six months while giving a formula fed baby breast milk will help it digest the formula and do no harm we really have no science to tell us what is best for formula fed infants. If your baby has reflux your doctor may talk to you about adding a thickening agent to a bottle of formula or breast milk. Use a cooler with ice packs to transport bottles for safe formula feeding.

Putting cereal in a bottle is a choking hazard so baby food would be more of a hazard. You shouldn t put anything but formula breastmilk in a bottle unless your pediatrician recommends adding single grain cereal to help allieviate reflux. Also discard leftovers if your baby doesn t finish a bottle.