Bottle feeders... a ?

SoCalScrapper

If you are out and about for the day, how many bottles do you take with you? Do you take enough for each feeding or do you rinse and reuse during the day? We are headed on a road trip soon and I'm trying to decide how many bottles to take with me. I'll probably be able to wash them once a day. I'm going to take the microwave sterilizer bags and hope the hotel has a micro. But my main question is during the day... what do you do? Take a bunch with you or rinse and reuse? I was also thinking about getting some of the Medela breast pump wipes and wiping them off? Good idea? Bad idea? HELP!

Kristi

atangiblewish

It depends how long I'm gone. If I'm going to someone's house I'll wash them and bring less. For how long I'm usually gone ill bring 2.

Maelara

I'd bring a bunch. Enough to not have to wash and reuse until I can sterilize but I'm a panicky FTM

BLT20051

Depends on the situation. If I'm going to just run a few errands and miss one or two, I take one. If I'm going somewhere I can feed, wash the bottle and pump fesh milk into jr, I do that. When we went to visit H's family which was a 7 hour drive I took three bottles so I could have one prepped and ready, one to pump into and a spare if needed.

SoCalScrapper

Thanks for the replies. I have 14 bottles (7 for each of them) so  think we'll be good for each day.

BLT20051

Oh about pump wipes, they're a waste. Get pacifier wipes. They're food grade so safe for LO and they SO much cheaper.

costa2011

It depends on whether I will have access to only well water or city water wherever I'm going. According to my DD's pedi, you don't have to sterilize if you're using city water to wash your bottles, as long as you use hot soapy water. If that's the case I would only bring like 2 bottles. Another idea...Gerber has 3 oz glass jars of pre-mixed formula that they sell and they are pretty awesome. You just screw the nipple on them and their ready to go.

BbyCarter13

Maybe you should look at getting the playtex drop-in bottles?

SoCalScrapper

We tried the drop-ins... they didn't work for us. Funny thing... we tried all kinds of bottles and the ones that worked the best are the cheapie Gerber bottles. I think it's because they were bottle trained in the NICU on basic nipples and they are the same as the Gerbers. The fancy ones shaped like a boob don't work for these two.

I have a ton of pacifier wipes. I'll take them with us. Good idea.

We have a few ready to feed bottles to take with us. They are on Neosure (preemie formula) so they are very expensive to go this route.

BC&LM

We usually take a Playtex bottle and bring several liners and extra nipples. Since the liner and nipples are all that really get dirty anyway with Playtex, you can reuse the bottle "shell" a few times.