If you're feeding your little one with powdered Infant Formula, it's so important it is made up safely and correctly.

In its powdered form, formula isn't sterile and has been through a lot to become this product which exposes it to contamination! 

Every box has instructions of how to safely feed your baby so please follow these.

Focusing on standard UK infant formula and following the World Health Organization (WHO) guidance:

• Ensure hands and surfaces are clean!

• Boil 1 litre of water - a freshly filled kettle NOT re-boiled

• Leave to cool for UP TO 30 minutes so that the water is no less than/at least 70°C

• Pour the amount dictated on the box (depending on how much milk you're making) into a steralised bottle

• Use the scoop provided in the box to add the necessary number of LEVEL scoops (there's a handy leveller on the opening of the box you can use!)

• Swirl/shake the bottle to incorporate the powder fully into the 70°C water

• Cool the bottle under cold running water and test it on the inside of your wrist

NOTE: simply adding a "shot" of hot water is not in-line with reccomendations for sufficiently destroying pathogens that might be present. Machines that make formula up for you this way have been tested independently and found to produce not enough water at the right temperature (above 70°C) to sufficiently steralise the powder...

It may feel like extra work to use the instructed kettle method...but it's the safest for your baby! 

If you've got a colicky baby and feel you've tried everything under the sun but are using the "hot shot" method for making your baby's bottle, there's no harm in moving to making it with a kettle...some parents have reported (anecdotally) improvements in Colic symptoms doing this!