Good morning!
I will be traveling by car with my 9 week old son for about 7 hours. The trip is approximately 4.5hrs but I'm accounting for breastfeeding stops and stretching. I'd like to bring some of my frozen milk down for a few reasons. One, We have an event to go to and my mother will need to give him a few bottles. I'm always fearful to not have it as backup ... thinking what if my supply is low that day after travel?(Im paranoid since I do not want to give him formula) Secondly my sister just had a baby too and is unable to produce enough to feed her son. Since I have a decent frozen supply I would like to bring some for her to add to his formula for the health benefits. Soooo my questions is... How can I travel with frozen breastmilk? I live in the sticks but think I may be able to acquire dry ice, other than that, the only option I've been able to find is ice packs which probably wouldn't keep it frozen that long. If I go the ice pack route and it defrosts but is still in a cooler w ice packs can I then put it in the refrigerator for three days?
FTM and FT out breastfeeding. Thank you all in advance for any advice, tips or tricks. It is all greatly appreciated!!
Re: Traveling w frozen breastmilk
LO and I made the trip yesterday. I packed the BM in a soft cooler. I placed a number of flat 3-5oz Lano bags on top of each other and tightly wrapped them in newspaper. I placed a freezer bag of ice on the bottom, newspaper w breast milk and multiple ice packs on top. We traveled from 9am to 430 pm and it was still nicely frozen pun our arrival.
Thanks again for all the input!!