Is your baby travelling somewhere and needs to have breastmilk
warmed? Assuming that you can't feed your baby at the breast, here
are our suggestions for transporting and warming breastmilk.
After you have expressed your breast milk, the next thing to
consider is how you are going to transport it for when your baby
needs it.
Some brands have special
breast milk chilly bags and ice packs, but you
could also jut use a small chilly bag - something like your partner
might take to a BBQ with a few cans of beer! These are a lot
cheaper!!
Your breastmilk will be in the bottle that you pumped into, so
make sure this is sealed with the lid and cap. Pack ice or a
frozen "freezer bag" around your bottle, and place all of these
inside the chilly bag.
Take a flask of hot water with you, aswell as a small container
to stand the bottle in. This will be how you can heat the
milk while you are away from any other facilities.
Only warm the milk to blood temperature, and always check a few
drops on the inside of your wrist before you feed to baby.
If you are travelling to somewhere that has facilities - you
just need to boil some water, pour this into a container and stand
your bottle of chilled milk in this container for a few minutes to
warm it up.
We do have the Car Bottle Warmer which is a nifty product that
plugs into your car lighter.
Don't ever use the microwave to warm breastmilk as this destroys
the beneficial properties of it!
After feeding baby, try to rinse out the items. Then when
you reach your destination wash them out and sterilize.