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We have baggies of pumped milk defrosting in the fridge overnight-- would just heat them up in a mug of hot water, pour them into the bottle, and feed (it would take a lot longer than just having me pop out a titty, though).

We wouldn't give her a bottle at each MOTN wake up-- sometimes she would fall back asleep with some soothing. So I'd have enough for 2-3 wake ups on hand?

@ShootingStar: I have a friend that uses a powder formula and she pre measures powder out into a bottle and then has a bottle of room temp water next to it on her bedside table. When her baby cries, she just immediately mixes the formula and then sticks it into a bottle warmer (she keeps it on her nightstand at night) and then picks up her LO. Then the bottle is ready a minute later.

I EP, so I just keep a bottle of pumped milk next to the bed (I usually go to bed at 10 or 10:30 pm and LO usually wakes to feed around 1-2 am) and then use the Dr. Brown's travel bottle warmer that I keep on my nightstand. It's basically just a thermos that keeps water super hot. The bottle heats to lukewarm in about a minute so it's not long for LO to wait.

I generally stick the paci in her mouth which will calm her down until it's ready.

LO generally STTN now but when she had wakings I would prepare the bottle before I went to bed and put it in the fridge (either pumped milk or the concentrate formula, whatever I had on hand). Then I would pop it in the warmer while I changed her. By the time she had a new diaper on the formula was ready. The nursery and kitchen are very close together though !

Since you EBF you will need to do something with your boobs during the night or you may hurt your supply and up with engorgement/blocked ducts. I would recommend either pumping over night or slowly introduce the bottle so you don't have too much pain/discomfort.

I brought bottles filled with room temp water up at night along with formula pre-measured in a formula dispenser (I highly recommend the Dr. Brown's dispenser). When baby wakes up, just dump the formula in the bottle, shake, and feed. I never used a bottle warmer, DS was always used to having room temp bottles.

I kept premade bottles (formula) in the fridge and just nuked them for 20-30 seconds to take the chill off.

The next one? Baby Brezza. All. the. way. rofl!

We always had pre-made bottles in the fridge. Then whichever baby woke up would come downstairs with us while the bottles heated. We then went back to their room and fed in the semi-dark.

Our bedrooms are all on a different floor than our kitchen. Every night I would take bottles, measured formula and set then on the counter in our guest bath. Make the bottle and feed. LO was formula fed and stopped night feeds by about 4.5 months.

I always pumped before bed, since fresh breast milk lasts like 12 hours at room temp, I would measure a feeding into a bottle and just leave it on the counter when my husband took night shift so I could sleep. If he STTN (ha, rare!) then he got it first thing in the morning. Otherwise we also kept a stock of ready to go formula bottles that he didn't need to warm up.