Travel with my frozen breast milk

Marcantonio

Hey all! Please let me know if this has been discussed so I'm not repeating but I'm moving this Sunday about 2 hours into a new home and need to move my frozen breastmilk stash! Unfortunately dry ice is not an n option as the only supplier in town is not open on the weekend or this evening after work (lame ice people) so I'm stuck with ice vs ice packs . I know it needs to stay frozen and was wondering if anyone had any sucess with a certain type of wrapping, cooler, or ice alternative. Any advice is appreciated! Starting over would make me sad!!Thankss

DolphinLover2002

I have no experience, so this is just an opinion. I would pack it in a plastic cooler so it keeps the cold better. Then I would put your ice packs and fresh ice in there. I'd pack it as much as possible. As long as it's the last thing you pack and first thing you unpack I think you'd be fine.

MaliKaela

You could also duct tape the cooler closed so it doesn't lose as much cold through the seems..

bethanne09

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Wrap the bags of milk in foil and leave them in the freezer like that before you pack it up. The aluminum helps hold the temperature inside of the bags longer.

dancegurl1118

Plastic cooler with ice! Our cooler keeps ice for at least 5 hours, it's a green Coleman

slr1229

Yeti cooler.

spausek

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I actually just drove from South Carolina to Maryland with 100 ounces of frozen Breast milk successfully without dry ice. First, make sure the milk is totally frozen solid. Then I packed about 5-6 bags of milk into a gallon ziplock freezer bag. Then each of those large bags I wrapped completely with ice packs. (I got ice packs from Walmart in the camping section. They are like little gel packs in the shape of ice cubes all bunched together. Does that make any sense?) once each bag was wrapped with that I put it all in a large cooler and dumped ice over everything to fill the cooler. I didn't open the cooler until we got to Maryland. Roughly 12 hours later. Everything was still frozen solid. I was determined to not lose my stash good luck!! It can be done!

Lajabr88

I brought home frozen milk from the hospital after my LO was born and the nurse stuck it in a freezer bag with ice.

marlener25

Make sure your fridge is plugged in at your new home!!