A video showing a mum and a Plunket clinical advisor demonstrating how to make infant formula.
Source: KidsHealth
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[Music]
[Background conversation]
Voice
Infant formula powder is not sterile. Handle and store formula with care to keep it safe for baby. Formula should be made just before each feed.
Plunket clinical advisor
OK so to make up the formula we need to get our hands washed first and then we'll wash the bench down so ...
Voice
Thoroughly wash and dry your hands before you handle sterilised equipment or make formula.
[Sounds of running tap and tap being turned off]
Plunket clinical advisor
So now we need to wash down the bench so that ....
Voice
Clean the bench where you prepare the formula using hot soapy water and a clean cloth.
Plunket clinical advisor
Wet it and then we'll dry it with the other one.
Mum
Yeah.
[Sound of water being squeezed out of cloth]
Plunket clinical advisor
Give it a good wash all over.
Voice
Then dry with a clean cloth or paper towel.
[Background conversation]
Mum
Oops.
Voice
Read the information on the formula tin carefully, including the use by date and follow instructions.
[Background conversation]
Mum
18th of December 2015.
Plunket clinical advisor
Cool, and so you know that once you've opened it, you need to use it within a month.
Mum
Yep.
Plunket clinical advisor
Cool.
[Sound of boiling kettle]
Voice
For the first 6 months all water used for formula should be boiled and cooled on the day you use it.
[Background conversation]
Voice
If you're using a jug or kettle to boil water, wait until it switches off. If you are boiling water in a pot on the stove, let the water come to a rolling boil.
[Sound of water boiling in pot]
[Music]
Voice
Once the water is boiled, leave it to cool.
[Music]
Plunket clinical advisor
That water in the kettle now will have cooled enough for you to use and you can fill up your sterilised containers ready to pop them in the fridge. And you've got lots of different containers there that will be useful for storing the water in.
[Sound of pouring water]
[Sound of lid being clicked on container]
Plunket clinical advisor
Excellent. And they'll stay nice and, nice and cool.
Voice
Keep this cooled, boiled water for no longer than twenty four hours.
[Music]
Plunket clinical advisor
There we go. All done. Here you go, now we just need to check the right amount of water's in there. How much do you need for this feed?
Mum
150 mls.
Plunket clinical advisor
OK so ...
Voice
Not all baby bottles have accurate volume lines on them. To check that your bottles do, look for the standard mark EN14350 on the bottle or packaging, or take your bottles to a pharmacy and ask a staff member to check if the bottles are accurate.
[Background conversation]
Plunket clinical advisor
So now you can put our, um, your powder in.
Mum
Yep.
[Sounds of lids being taken off]
Mum
It says, ah, 150 mls, three scoops.
Plunket clinical advisor
Absolutely, that's fine.
Voice
Make sure you use the scoop that comes in the tin. The instructions provided with each tin will tell you how much water and how many scoops of formula powder to use.
[Background conversation]
Plunket clinical advisor
That's right. So just make sure that's not ...
[Background conversation]
Voice
Level the powder with a clean knife but don't pack the formula down. And don't tap it in because you're just making extra formula in there which makes it too strong for the baby. Great.
[Background conversation]
Voice
Add the correct number of full level scoops of powder to the measured water.
[Background conversation]
Plunket clinical advisor
That just adds a little bit extra so that's cool.
Mum
It's a bit annoying.
Plunket clinical advisor
It is isn't it? But you can see if you add the extra how it makes it stronger.
Mum
Three.
Plunket clinical advisor
Cool.
[Sound of lid clicking in place]
Voice
Attach the teat and collar to the bottle; seal the bottle with a cap.
[Background conversation]
[Sound of liquid being shaken]
Voice
Shake or swirl the bottle until the formula is mixed thoroughly.
[Sound of liquid being shaken]
[Music]
Plunket clinical advisor
Right, and now we need to warm that up so that ...
Voice
Formula can be warmed to body temperature for your baby. Put the bottle of freshly prepared formula in a container of hot water.
[Background conversation]
Plunket clinical advisor
And you don't get any hot spots to burn her ...
[Background conversation]
Voice
Shake or swirl the formula in the bottle to mix the heat evenly. Check the temperature of the formula by dripping some of the formula on the inside of your wrist without touching the teat.
Mum
Right that's warm.
Plunket clinical advisor
Warm? Yep. That's great.
Mum
Can only just feel it on my skin.
Plunket clinical advisor
That's great. Good on you. Well done.
Voice
Remember use the formula within 2 hours and throw out any unused formula. Never reheat warmed or partially used feeds.
[Sounds of baby sucking]
[Background conversation]
Voice
After the feed, thoroughly wash your bottle and teat in warm soapy water using a bottle and teat brush. Make sure you remove any leftover or dried on formula. Rinse your bottle and teat well, and sterilise ready for the next feed. You might like to put freshly boiled water into your bottle and pop it in the fridge ready for next time. Remember infant formula powder is not sterile. The temperature at which babies like their formula is also a perfect temperature for harmful bugs to grow. Formula is best made up fresh in time for each feed. If this is not possible, prepared formula may be stored at room temperature for no more than 2 hours or in the bottom half of the fridge at the back for no more than 24 hours. Never add more formula powder or less water than recommended. This could make your baby very sick. Never add anything other than formula powder or water into the formula feed.
[Background conversation]
[Sound of lid clicking on]
[Sound of running water]
Voice
If you have in a city or a town, you can use water straight from the tap to make formula after your baby is 3 months old. Run the tap for 10 to 15 seconds before you collect the water.
[Music]
Voice
Discuss any concerns with your local public health unit. You need to keep boiling bore water and tank water until your baby is 18 months old.
Key messages in other languages
Me pฤhea te mahi paura miraka? (Te Reo Mฤori)
ฤta pฤnuihia ngฤ mลhiohio kei te tini paura miraka (tae ki te rฤ mลnehu) ka whai i ngฤ tohutohu. Me mฤtua whakamahi i te koko kei roto i te tini.
Ehara te paura miraka pฤpi i te horomata. ฤta whakamahi me te putu paura miraka kia noho pai ai mล te pฤpi.
Me whakarite te paura miraka i mua tonu i te whฤngainga.
Ki te kore e taea, ka taea te waiho i te paura miraka kua whakaritea ki te pฤmahana ฤ-whare atu ki te 2 haora te roa, ki rล pouaka makariri atu ki te 24 haora te roa.
Mล ngฤ marama e 6 tuatahi o tล pฤpi, me paera ngฤ wai katoa ka whakamฤtao i te rฤ ka whakamahia e koe.
I ngฤ tฤone nui me ngฤ tฤone, ka taea e koe te whakamahi wai mai i te kลrere wai hei mahi paura miraka i muri i te ekenga ki te 6 marama. Atu i tฤnฤ, me paera haere tonu te wai.
Ko e palu fฤfฤ e huhu fomila he muke (Vagahau Niue, Niuean)
Totลu fakamitaki e tau fakailoaaga ne tohi he apa huhu (kikite e aho ke oti ai e fakaaoga) ti muitua ki ai. Fakaaoga ni he sipunu fua ne toka i loto he apa huhu ia.
Nakai meฤ katoatoa e huhu fomila. Taute mo e toka fakameฤ fakamitaki e tau huhu ke lata mo e muke.
Lata ke palu ni e huhu fakalata ma e magaaho kai.
Kaeke kua ai maeke ke taute pihia, ti toka ni e huhu palu ke nakai molea e 2 tulฤ he taha poko noa, poke ai molea e 24 tulฤ ka toka ai he filisa noa.
Ato molea e 6 mahina fakamua he muke, tunu mo e fakahahau oti ni e tau vai palu huhu he aho ke fakaaoga ai.
Ka nofo he taone poke maaga lahi ti fakaaoga e vai mai he tepe ke palu aki e huhu tama ka molea e 6 mahina. Ka nakai, ti matutaki ni ke tunu tumau e vai.
Pe faโapeafea ona palu le fagususu apa susu a lau pepe? (Gagana Sฤmoa, Samoan)
Faitau lelei faโamatalaga o lo o tusia mai i luga o apa susu (e aofia ai le aso-e-uma-ai-le-aogฤ) ma mulimuli i faโatonuga. Ia faโamautinoa le faโaaogaina o le sipuni o loโo aumaia i le apa susu.
O susu apa susu e le o malu puipuia lelei. Ia tagofia ma teumaluina fagususu ua uma ona saunia mo pepe.
O fagususu apa susu e tatau ona faโatoโฤ faia lava pe a manaโomia.
Afai e le mafai ona faโatoโฤ faia pe a manaโomia, o fagu susu ua uma ona faia e mafai ona tuโuina i le potu mo le 2 itula, po o totonu foโi o le pusaโaisa ia aua ne i sili atu i le 24 itula.
Mo le uluโai 6 masina o lau pepe, o vai uma e faโaaogaina mo fagususu e tatau lava ona faโapunaina ma ia faโamaluluina i le aso e faโaaogaina ai.
I totonu o aโai ma taulaga, e mafai ona e faโaaogaina vai mai le paipa e fai ai fagususu a lau pepe pe afai ua sili atu ma le 6 masina lona matua. A le o lenฤ faโapuna pea le vai.
E vฤhea te paluga o te formula tau pepe? (Gagana Tokelau, Tokelauan)
Faitau fakalelei nฤ fakamatalaga i te apa formula (ma te aho e uma ai te aogฤ) ma mulimuli ki nฤ fakatonuga. Fakamautinoa e fakaaogฤ e koe te hipuni e hau fakatahi ma te apa.
Ko te pauta formula mล tamaiti e hฤ haogฤlemลซ mai nฤ hiama. Tago fakaeteete ki ei ma teu fakalelei te formula ke haogฤlฤmu mล te pepe.
Ko te formula e tatau ke fakaaogฤ loa kฤfai e uma te palu.
Kฤfai e hฤ mafai, ko te formula kua uma te palu e tatau ke teu i te vevela o te potu (room temperature) e hฤ hili atu i te 2 itลซla pe tuku ki te aiha e hฤ hili atu i te 24 itลซla.
Mล te 6 mฤhina muamua o tau pepe, ko nฤ vai uma e fakaaogฤ mล te formula e tatau ke fakapuna muamua oi fakamakalili ai i te aho e fakaaogฤ ai.
I nฤ kakai ma nฤ nofoaga e tau feoloolo ia tagata e nonofo e ai, e mafai ona fakaaogฤ hako e koe nฤ vai mai te paipa ke palu ai te formula kฤfai tau pepe kua kฤtoa te 6 mahina te matua. Kฤfai e hฤki kฤtoa oi fakaauau pea ke fakapuna nฤ vai.
โOku fฤfฤ โa hono teuteuโi โo e hina huโakau โa pฤpฤ? (Lea Faka-Tonga, Tongan)
Lau fakalelei โa e fakamatala โi he tuโa kapa huโakauยด (โo kau ki heni โa e โaho โoku โosi ki ai โa hono โaongaยด) pea muimui ki he fakahinohinoยด. Fakapapauโi โokuยด ke ngฤueโaki โa e sฤpuni fua โoku โomai โi he kapaยด.
โOku โikai hao โa e huโakau pฤpeeยด ia meiยด hano maโu โe he siemuยด. Tokangaโi โa hono teuteuโi mo hono tauhi โo e huโakau kuo โosi taaยด ke malu maโa hoโo pฤpeeยด.
โOku totonu ke toki teuteuโi pฤ โa e huโakau pฤpeeยด kimuโa โi he taimi fafangaยด.
Kapau โoku โikai malava โeni, โe lava ke tuku pฤ โa e hina huhuยด โi he mฤfana โo ha loki โo โoua naโa toe laka hake โi he houa โe 2, pe โi he โaisi fakamokomokoยด โo โoua naโa toe laka hake โi he houa โe 24.
โI he โuluaki mฤhina โe 6 โo hoโo pฤpeeยด, ko e vai kotoa pฤ โoku ngฤueโaki ki hono ngaahi โo e huโakau โa hoโo pฤpeeยด โoku totonu ke fakalili pea fakamokomoko ia โi he โaho pฤ โokuยด ke fakaโaongaโi ai iaยด.
โI he ngaahi kolo lalahiยด, โe lava ke ke ngฤue hangatonuโaki pฤ โa e vai meiยด he tepiยด ke ngaohiโaki โa e hina โa hoโo pฤpeeยด hili โa hono mฤhina 6. Ka โoku โikai eni, hokohoko atu pฤ hono haka โo e vaiยด.
Ka akapeea te maaniโanga i te formula a te pepe? (Mฤori Kuki Airani, Cook Islands)
E tatau meitaki marie koe i te au akaueโanga tei tataโia ki runga i te tini formula (e pera katoa te tuatau e pou ei te turanga meitaki o te reira formula) ma te aru meitaki i te au akaueโanga tei tataโia. E akapapu meitaki koe i te ta-angaanga i te apinga kapu paura i roto i te tini.
Kare te formula paura a te pepe i akapapuโia e, kia kore e tiemu o roto. E raverave koe ma te akaputu meitaki i te formula tei oti i te teatea-mamaoโia kia vai meitaki ua na pepe.
Kia maaniโia te formula i mua ua ake ka ta-angaanga ia ai.
Me kare teia e rauka i te raveia, ka tau te formula tei oti ke ana i te teatea-mamaoโia kia tukuโia ki roto i tetai piโa ngutuare no tetai 2 ora, me kore ra, ki roto i te fridge, eiaa ra kia roa atu i te 24 ora.
I te nga marama mua e 6 o taau pepe, ko te au vai katoatoa te ka ta-angaangaโia no te maani formula, kia tunuโia te reira e kia akaanuโia te reira i te ra e ta-angaangaโia ai.
I roto i te au oire mamaata e te au oire rikiriki mai, ka rauka ia koe i te ta-angaanga i te vai mei roto tika mai i te paipa no te maani i te formula, me pฤti mai taau pepe i te 6 marama i te pakari. Me kare ra, e tunu ua atu rai koe i te vai.
ๅฆไฝๅถไฝๅฉดๅฟ้ ๆนๅฅถ๏ผ (็ฎไฝไธญๆ, Chinese simplified)
ไป็ป้ ่ฏป้ ๆนๅฅถ็ฒ็ฝไธ็่ฏดๆ๏ผๅ ๆฌๆๆๆ๏ผ๏ผๆ็ ง่ฏดๆ่ฆๆฑ้ ๅถใๅกๅฟ ไฝฟ็จ้็ฝๅ ่ฃ ็้ ๅฅ่ๅบใ
ๅฉดๅฟ้ ๆนๅฅถ็ฒๅนถ้ๆ ่ไบงๅใๆฟๆพๅๅจๅญๅๅคๅฅฝ็้ ๆนๅฅถๆถ่ฆๅฐๅฟไป็ป๏ผไฝฟๅฉดๅฟๅๅฐๅฎๅ จ็้ ๆนๅฅถใ
้ ๆนๅฅถๅบๅจไฝฟ็จๅ็ฐ้ ใ
ๅฆๆๆ ๆณๅๅฐ๏ผ้ฃไน้ ๅถๅฅฝ็ๅฅถๅฏไปฅๅจๅฎคๆธฉไธๅญๆพไธ่ถ ่ฟ2ๅฐๆถ๏ผๆ่ ๅจๅฐ็ฎฑ้ๅญๆพไธ่ถ ่ฟ24ๅฐๆถใ
ๅจๆจ็ๅฉดๅฟ็ๅคด6ไธชๆ๏ผๆๆ้ ๆนๅฅถ็จๆฐด้ฝๅบๅฝๅจไฝฟ็จ็ๅฝๅคฉ็งๅผๅนถๅทๅดใ
ๅฝๆจ็ๅฉดๅฟ6ไธชๆๅคงไนๅ๏ผๅจๅ้้๏ผๆจๅฏไปฅ็ดๆฅไฝฟ็จๆฐด้พๅคด้็ๆฐดๆฅๅถไฝ้ ๆนๅฅถใ่ฅ้ๅฆๆญค๏ผ่ฟ้็ปง็ปญๆๆฐด็งๅผใ
ๅฆไฝๆณก่ฃฝๅฏถๅฏถ็้ ๆนๅฅถ๏ผ (็น้ซไธญๆ, Chinese traditional)
ไป็ดฐ้ฑ่ฎ้ ๆนๅฅถ็ฝไธ็่ณ่จ(ๅ ๆฌไฝฟ็จๆ้)๏ผไธฆ้ต็ งๆ็คบใ็ขบๅฎๆจไฝฟ็จ็ๆฏ็ฝๅ งๆ้็้ๅใ
ๅฌฐๅ ้ ๆนๅฅถ็ฒไธฆ้็ก่ใ่็ๅๅฒๅญ้ ๆนๅฅถๆ้่ฌนๆ ๅฐๅฟ๏ผไปฅ็ขบไฟๅฏถๅฏถ็ๅฎๅ จใ
ๅจ้คตๅฅถไนๅๆๆฒๆณก้ ๆนๅฅถใ
ๅฆๆๅฟ ้ ๆๅๆฒๆณก๏ผ้ ๆนๅฅถๅฏไปฅๅจๅฎคๆบซไธๅญๆพไธ่ถ ้2ๅฐๆ๏ผๅจๅฐ็ฎฑๅ งไธ่ถ ้24ๅฐๆใ
ๅจๅ6ๅๆๆ้๏ผๆๆ็จไพๆฒๆณก็ๅฅถ็ๆฐด้ฝๆ่ฉฒๅจไฝฟ็จ็ถๅคฉ็ ฎๆฒธไธฆๅทๅปใ
ๅจๅฏถๅฏถๆปฟ6ๅๆๅพ๏ผๅฆๆๆจๅฑ ไฝๅจๅๅธๆๅ้ฎ่ฃก๏ผๆจๅฏไปฅ็ดๆฅไฝฟ็จ่ชไพๆฐดๆฒๆณก็ๅฅถใ่ฅๅจๅ ถไปๅฐๅ๏ผๆจ้ๆฏ้่ฆ็นผ็บๅฐๆฐด็ ฎๆฒธใ
๋ถ์ ํ๋ ๋ฒ (ํ ๊ธ, Korean)
๋ถ์ ํต์ ์ ํ ์ ๋ณด(์ ํจ๊ธฐํ ํฌํจ)๋ฅผ ์ ์ฝ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์ง์์ ๋ฐ๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ๋ถ์ ํต์ ๋ธ๋ ค ์ ๊ณต๋ ์ ์ฉ ์คํผ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ญ์์ค.
์์ ์์ฉ ๋ถ์ ๊ฐ๋ฃจ๋ ์ด๊ท ์ํ๊ฐ ์๋๋๋ค. ๋ถ์ ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ , ๋ ํ ๋ถ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ดํ ๋ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ธ์ฌ ์๊ธฐ์ ์์ ์ ์งํค์ญ์์ค.
๋ถ์ ๋ ๋จน์ด๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง์ ์ ํ์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ํฉ์ด๋ฉด ๋ถ์ ๋ฅผ ํ๋๊ณ ์ค์จ์์ 2์๊ฐ, ๋์ฅ๊ณ ์์ 24์๊ฐ ์ด์ ๋์ง ์๋๋ก ํฉ๋๋ค.
์ํ 6๊ฐ์๊น์ง๋ ๋ถ์ ๋ฅผ ๋จน์ด๋ ๊ทธ ๋ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋์๋ค ์ํ ํ ๋ถ์ ๋ฅผ ํ์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
ํฌ๊ณ ์์ ๋์ ์ง์ญ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ํ 6๊ฐ์ ์ดํ๋ถํฐ๋ ์๋๋ฌผ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ฌ์ฉํด๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ธ ์ง์ญ์ ๊ณ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋์ฌ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ญ์์ค.
Key messages
Read the information on the formula tin carefully (including the use-by date) and follow instructions. Make sure you use the scoop that comes in the tin.
Infant formula powder is not sterile. Handle and store prepared formula with care to keep it safe for baby.
Formula should be made just before use.
If this is not possible, prepared formula may be stored at room temperature for no more than 2 hours, or in the fridge for no more than 24 hours.
For your babyโs first 6 months, all water used for formula should be boiled and cooled on the day you use it.
In cities and towns, you can use water straight from the tap to make formula after your baby is 6 months old. Otherwise, continue to boil the water.
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