Cooler for pumped milk to transport on plane

JJSunshine817

What is the best cooler that will keep BM refrigerated that will fit TSA regulations? I will probably be bringing home 80-100oz of BM.

Somebody mentioned the Fridge To Go on another post, but when I searched on Amazon all of the Fridge To Gos only held about 12 bottles at most.

 

TIA!

kenna_4

We used a cooler bag, and put ice packs in it. I brought only 8 bottlles, but there was a lot of room in it.

Jordan1234

When I traveled in October, I brought a lunch-bag type cooler.  I stored my milk in Lansinoh bags.  I brought along those freezer gel packs and wrapped them around the bags.  The milk was ice cold when I got off the plane. 

Fisherman'sWife

If you are bringing that much you may want to consider using some freezer bag

drcolleen

I left DD1 for a week and pumped while at my training like usual but kept the bottles in the medela cooler w/ ice pack.  At the hotel I transferred to lansinoh bags in 5 oz quantities (my usual) and kept in the fridge all week doing this.  I would pack 5 lansinoh bags rolled up into a zip lock bag w/o air just in case there was a leak.  When it was time to go I took the 6-7 zip lock bags and put into a canvas bag that came w/ my luggage to be for toiletries (any bag would have worked) along with a few freezer packs.  This was then carried in my back pack so I could easily remove it for security who rubbed the outside of a few of the zip lock bags but didn't open them so my milk was secure.

-Bags are smaller than bottles, so this would be easier both for packing there and home.

-If you freeze the milk and it thaws on the way home you have 24hrs to use so consider keeping it refrigerated unless you plan for dry ice and probably checking the milk.  (I have traveled cross country with milk on dry ice and it worked well.)

-Most any hotel can get you access to a fridge if you tell them it is for medical purposes.

-Whatever you decide to do, open the cooler/bag minimal number of times to keep the cold in. 

GL 

ksulli

I had to be away from LO for 4 1/2 days last month & pumped abotu 170oz- I shipped it home with dry ice in four coolers (4th was nearly empty), for next day delivery (wound up being friday-monday, but still frozen) and it cost ~$100.  I would bet you could pack it into 2 and only spend $50- may be worth avoiding the headache.

maddiemoon43

Jordan1234:

When I traveled in October, I brought a lunch-bag type cooler.  I stored my milk in Lansinoh bags.  I brought along those freezer gel packs and wrapped them around the bags.  The milk was ice cold when I got off the plane. 

I did the exact same thing...only in November! I have also read other suggestions before about using ice from a pop/drink machine if they give you a hard time going through security with your ice packs.