For the moms who didn’t breastfeed in the hospital

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Anonymous wrote:lol @ how many pages this argument about warming formula has gone. We never warmed it because the hospital gives it to you room temp. There aren’t even warmers in the room or on the floor. Both my children then always took room temp because, you know, that’s what they were accustomed to.

Hospital didn't give me a Boppy, either, but I ended up using one a lot for DD1, and brought one with me for DD2. So, you know, that became what we were accustomed to. You can bring a bottle warmer to a hospital. The More You Know!

Did you upgrade hats, clothes, diapers, swaddlers, etc., or did you just keep using hospital-grade everything? Not a great argument.

Wait what? No I didn’t “upgrade” diapers?

If there were a measurable advantage to warm formula, that’s what the medical establishment would do.

Is a bowl of cold chicken noodle soup just as nutritious as a bowl of warm soup? Absolutely.

Is it as comforting and appealing as a bowl of warm soup? Absolutely not.

I would rather have cold milk than warmed (nasty!) milk.

That's awesome, what with your adult digestive system able to quickly warm that milk up so that it doesn't cool your body temperature down, thus expending needless energy that could be better spent on growth.

My first was very premature and spent a few months in the NICU. Once the babies could start bottle feeding, you were only permitted 15-20 mins to finish the bottle and the rest would go in the NG tube. The whole point was to make sure the babies didn’t expend too much effort eating. Guess what they gave? Room temp. Your claims are total nonsense. Maybe the baby burns a calorie or two. But nothing significant that ever matters. Not even for the tiny 2 pounders where everything is monitored and tweaked for optimum outcomes.

Again, some more. I'm not talking about NECESSARY or "has to" or "will harm if you don't." I'm talking about what is most pleasant and enjoyable and comforting for a baby.

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This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Of course you don’t need to warm formula. There’s zero reason to do so except for some batshit DCUM poster who has decided it’s “cuddlier” (?!?) and also because of (nonexistent) Science.

I’ve breastfed and formula fed (room temp) and believe me, the baby doesn’t care one bit.

Go ask your pediatrician and watch him or her laugh and laugh.

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Anonymous wrote:lol @ how many pages this argument about warming formula has gone. We never warmed it because the hospital gives it to you room temp. There aren’t even warmers in the room or on the floor. Both my children then always took room temp because, you know, that’s what they were accustomed to.

Hospital didn't give me a Boppy, either, but I ended up using one a lot for DD1, and brought one with me for DD2. So, you know, that became what we were accustomed to. You can bring a bottle warmer to a hospital. The More You Know!

Did you upgrade hats, clothes, diapers, swaddlers, etc., or did you just keep using hospital-grade everything? Not a great argument.

Wait what? No I didn’t “upgrade” diapers?

If there were a measurable advantage to warm formula, that’s what the medical establishment would do.

Is a bowl of cold chicken noodle soup just as nutritious as a bowl of warm soup? Absolutely.

Is it as comforting and appealing as a bowl of warm soup? Absolutely not.

I would rather have cold milk than warmed (nasty!) milk.

That's awesome, what with your adult digestive system able to quickly warm that milk up so that it doesn't cool your body temperature down, thus expending needless energy that could be better spent on growth.

My first was very premature and spent a few months in the NICU. Once the babies could start bottle feeding, you were only permitted 15-20 mins to finish the bottle and the rest would go in the NG tube. The whole point was to make sure the babies didn’t expend too much effort eating. Guess what they gave? Room temp. Your claims are total nonsense. Maybe the baby burns a calorie or two. But nothing significant that ever matters. Not even for the tiny 2 pounders where everything is monitored and tweaked for optimum outcomes.

Again, some more. I'm not talking about NECESSARY or "has to" or "will harm if you don't." I'm talking about what is most pleasant and enjoyable and comforting for a baby.

That varies by baby. Your weird obsession with insisting this the best way is out of control. Maybe it was best for your kids. Mine are way more flexible and didn’t have preferences. They would drink it any way and I preferred room temp so that I minimized the plastic chemicals leeching in to their formula.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Of course you don’t need to warm formula. There’s zero reason to do so except for some batshit DCUM poster who has decided it’s “cuddlier” (?!?) and also because of (nonexistent) Science.

I’ve breastfed and formula fed (room temp) and believe me, the baby doesn’t care one bit.

Go ask your pediatrician and watch him or her laugh and laugh.

It is not just one poster who supports warming formula to body temperature first, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:lol @ how many pages this argument about warming formula has gone. We never warmed it because the hospital gives it to you room temp. There aren’t even warmers in the room or on the floor. Both my children then always took room temp because, you know, that’s what they were accustomed to.

Hospital didn't give me a Boppy, either, but I ended up using one a lot for DD1, and brought one with me for DD2. So, you know, that became what we were accustomed to. You can bring a bottle warmer to a hospital. The More You Know!

Did you upgrade hats, clothes, diapers, swaddlers, etc., or did you just keep using hospital-grade everything? Not a great argument.

Wait what? No I didn’t “upgrade” diapers?

If there were a measurable advantage to warm formula, that’s what the medical establishment would do.

Is a bowl of cold chicken noodle soup just as nutritious as a bowl of warm soup? Absolutely.

Is it as comforting and appealing as a bowl of warm soup? Absolutely not.

I would rather have cold milk than warmed (nasty!) milk.

That's awesome, what with your adult digestive system able to quickly warm that milk up so that it doesn't cool your body temperature down, thus expending needless energy that could be better spent on growth.

My first was very premature and spent a few months in the NICU. Once the babies could start bottle feeding, you were only permitted 15-20 mins to finish the bottle and the rest would go in the NG tube. The whole point was to make sure the babies didn’t expend too much effort eating. Guess what they gave? Room temp. Your claims are total nonsense. Maybe the baby burns a calorie or two. But nothing significant that ever matters. Not even for the tiny 2 pounders where everything is monitored and tweaked for optimum outcomes.

Again, some more. I'm not talking about NECESSARY or "has to" or "will harm if you don't." I'm talking about what is most pleasant and enjoyable and comforting for a baby.

That varies by baby. Your weird obsession with insisting this the best way is out of control. Maybe it was best for your kids. Mine are way more flexible and didn’t have preferences. They would drink it any way and I preferred room temp so that I minimized the plastic chemicals leeching in to their formula.

If people want to use glass, there's no leeching.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Of course you don’t need to warm formula. There’s zero reason to do so except for some batshit DCUM poster who has decided it’s “cuddlier” (?!?) and also because of (nonexistent) Science.

I’ve breastfed and formula fed (room temp) and believe me, the baby doesn’t care one bit.

Go ask your pediatrician and watch him or her laugh and laugh.

NP without a dog in the fight, but when my first baby wouldn't take bottles (with either breastmilk or formula in them), my pediatrician and my lactation consultant suggested making the bottles very, very warm; that's what did the trick for us. Now, that could be that a baby used to warm breast milk has a strong preference for that temperature because they're used to it, but please don't act like "the baby doesn't care one bit" as if that is a universal truth.

Preference might certainly vary from baby to baby, but some babies do seem to prefer warm bottles. Is that really such a controversial concept?

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Anonymous wrote:This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Of course you don’t need to warm formula. There’s zero reason to do so except for some batshit DCUM poster who has decided it’s “cuddlier” (?!?) and also because of (nonexistent) Science.

I’ve breastfed and formula fed (room temp) and believe me, the baby doesn’t care one bit.

Go ask your pediatrician and watch him or her laugh and laugh.

It is not just one poster who supports warming formula to body temperature first, PP.

+1,000

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Anonymous wrote:lol @ how many pages this argument about warming formula has gone. We never warmed it because the hospital gives it to you room temp. There aren’t even warmers in the room or on the floor. Both my children then always took room temp because, you know, that’s what they were accustomed to.

Hospital didn't give me a Boppy, either, but I ended up using one a lot for DD1, and brought one with me for DD2. So, you know, that became what we were accustomed to. You can bring a bottle warmer to a hospital. The More You Know!

Did you upgrade hats, clothes, diapers, swaddlers, etc., or did you just keep using hospital-grade everything? Not a great argument.

Wait what? No I didn’t “upgrade” diapers?

If there were a measurable advantage to warm formula, that’s what the medical establishment would do.

Is a bowl of cold chicken noodle soup just as nutritious as a bowl of warm soup? Absolutely.

Is it as comforting and appealing as a bowl of warm soup? Absolutely not.

I would rather have cold milk than warmed (nasty!) milk.

That's awesome, what with your adult digestive system able to quickly warm that milk up so that it doesn't cool your body temperature down, thus expending needless energy that could be better spent on growth.

My first was very premature and spent a few months in the NICU. Once the babies could start bottle feeding, you were only permitted 15-20 mins to finish the bottle and the rest would go in the NG tube. The whole point was to make sure the babies didn’t expend too much effort eating. Guess what they gave? Room temp. Your claims are total nonsense. Maybe the baby burns a calorie or two. But nothing significant that ever matters. Not even for the tiny 2 pounders where everything is monitored and tweaked for optimum outcomes.

Our NICU always warmed the bottles even though the room was pretty damn warm.

[Anonymous]

Now here's a question for the pediatricians.
If parents request formula while in the hospital, are the nurses giving the baby cold formula or warmed formula?

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Anonymous wrote:Now here's a question for the pediatricians.


If parents request formula while in the hospital, are the nurses giving the baby cold formula or warmed formula?

Neither. Most give the nursettes. Room temp.

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Anonymous wrote:Now here's a question for the pediatricians.
If parents request formula while in the hospital, are the nurses giving the baby cold formula or warmed formula?

And if your hospital gives newborn babies cold formula, please name the hospital.

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Anonymous wrote:Now here's a question for the pediatricians.
If parents request formula while in the hospital, are the nurses giving the baby cold formula or warmed formula?

And if your hospital gives newborn babies cold formula, please name the hospital.

Inova Fairfax gives nursettes. Room temp.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Now here's a question for the pediatricians.
If parents request formula while in the hospital, are the nurses giving the baby cold formula or warmed formula?

And if your hospital gives newborn babies cold formula, please name the hospital.

Inova Fairfax gives nursettes. Room temp.

If you test a drop of "room temp" formula on the inside of your wrist, you'll feel that it's cold. No one puts unopened formula containers in the refrigerator!

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Anonymous wrote:Now here's a question for the pediatricians.
If parents request formula while in the hospital, are the nurses giving the baby cold formula or warmed formula?

And if your hospital gives newborn babies cold formula, please name the hospital.

Inova Fairfax gives nursettes. Room temp.

If you test a drop of "room temp" formula on the inside of your wrist, you'll feel that it's cold. No one puts unopened formula containers in the refrigerator!

What does your comment have to do with anything? No one is disputing that room temp is cooler than body temp. People are disputing your craziness that 1) warm bottles are scientifically better for the baby, and when anyone replies to you telling you that's just wrong, you respond with 2) it's not that warm bottles are scientifically BETTER or anything, it's just that the babies PREFER them. And when we say "a lot of babies don't care", you go back to point 1- that the warm bottles are just BETTER. It's cyclical, and makes no sense. Go away with your formula shaming.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not breastfeed for just a few weeks?
The formula still needs to be properly warmed in the hospital.

Omg. You are annoying.

No seriously - she’s not. Op just breastfeed your baby’s that’s why you have breasts. Also - you will produce milk. Why not give it to your child???