Keeping EBM warm...

It's really not recommended to keep EBM that warm for very long at all. But it's safe to keep reasonably fresh breastmilk at room temperature for up to 12 hours believe it or not, if it's in sterile containers etc. (not so for formula though!) so you could leave it on the bench and it only takes about a minute to heat in boiled water... so maybe he could change her while he waits for it to heat? We do that with Chloe. If she screams while we are trying to change her we just let her have the dummy for a few mins until her bottle is ready. But I find if we are just sitting on the couch waiting for the bottle, Chloe gets totally cranky... whereas if we are changing or doing something she doesn't seem as bad.

Sucks that you can't heat breastmilk in the microwave. 30 seconds is awesome heating time for formula

Hope you feel better soon Charly

Yep to what Jane said. I used to take the gremlins bottles out of the fridge when I went to bed so by the middle of the night when they wanted them they didn't take long to heat. I also used to heat the minimum amount of water in the kettle so it boiled quicker. Mind you, even that seemed like forever when they were screaming the place down!

You're a trooper, girl!
But that's gonna piss you off, eh?!
I sometimes think Hannah's sick of me cos when she gets her Daddy she's happy and behaves!

He DID do the feed. I never asked, but between 8:45pm (I'd JUST dropped off to sleep!) and midnight she woke 3 times so I had to get up and replace the dummy and stroke her head.
I went out to DH, who was still up, and said "She's woken up 3 times in three hours. I don't know what to do".
He said he'd be "down in a minute".
Next thing I know, it's 2am and she's woken again. I stuck her dummy back in and he went down and flicked the jug on.
Came bacl, she was asleep. So he got back into bed, but he got up an hour and a half later when she woke and fed her
I was awake the whole time, and got up to her at 7am, so I had a sh*t sleep.
But he still did the feed, WITHOUTH BEING ASKED!!!

Anyway.
Novel over.
Thanks for the advice on the EBM.
I'll be doing that from now on


Edited by Charly

Yay for DH doing the feed! It's a bugger that you can't turn your mummy radar off for a night so you don't wake when they cry huh?!

Bugger! Men aye?

I hope you feel better today/tonight.