My daughter is currently on materiny leave and will be going back to work in late July and be on a business trip right away for 3 days. She will have to pump her breastmilk and store the bags in the hotel's frig. Can she use these cold packs to keep the breast milk cold in her suitcase on her return flight from Dallas to Houston? Estimate total travel time ~~ 4 hours My daughter is currently on materiny leave and will be going back to work in late July and be on a business trip right away for 3 days. She will have to pump her breastmilk and store the bags in... » Read More My daughter is currently on materiny leave and will be going back to work in late July and be on a business trip right away for 3 days. She will have to pump her breastmilk and store the bags in the hotel's frig. Can she use these cold packs to keep the breast milk cold in her suitcase on her return flight from Dallas to Houston? Estimate total travel time ~~ 4 hours « Show Less
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The pumping is the important thing because she can always make more when she gets home. ;) I would not count on these to keep the milk truly cold. HOWEVER, breast milk does not spoil fast like cow's milk or formula.
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Questions to consider: checking bags or bringing them on the plane, once known; how long do you need to keep things at a lower temp. These bags work for 35-40 minutes. But if hotter they can lose their temp quickly
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Once you have opened the bottle, it must be used within a hour. Do not use it after an hour, it is no longer good for use and will not be good for your baby's tummy. Just like cow's milk begins to expire after so long, so does ready to feed baby formula. It will begin to sour and will no longer be safe to feed your baby after an hour. So with that being said, you may refrigerate the milk in between uses, if the baby doesn't drink it all at one time... but after an hour has passed upon you opening the seal of the ready to feed bottle, I advise you to discard it and open up a fresh one. But in my opinion, I would not use these bottles if your baby doesn'tnot drink 2 oz quite yet. I would purchase the powder formula so that you can control how much you make. Though these bottles are convenient, our babies don't always drink it all in one sitting and by the time they want more milk, the bottle we opened before will be no good. Just telling you from my own personal experience. The powder formula comes with a scoop and it gives you more control over how much you make for a feeding. This is especially convenient when you begin to learn your baby's eating patterns.
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I have not used it for BM storage because I was told BM needed to be stored in a somewhat air tight container. We buy milk storage bags, 100 per box and they last 3 mo. Pump and store 3 meals a day
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I love loved my pump. Yes. Came with a fabulous shoulder bag. And breast.milk storage containers u can pump right in to and lids. You can email me directly too. I have an awesome review of customer service too!!
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you use about 1 ounce of ronosol or simal product for about 13 or 14 hours I dont know how long she is going on that trip. but i think 3 or 4 bottles
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Looking at the date of your question you may not need this answer any more but I was curious about freezing in the Medela bottles, too. I looked on the Medela website and they have the following posted "Flexible: Ideal for expressing, storing, freezing and feeding breastmilk".
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The design is more for keeping milk, etc from spoiling. I am sure that if you do not put the pack in the fridge and put something warm in it, it may keep the temperature up a bit longer than if it were left out. good luck
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Recomended time varies from book to book... It's sad. My pediatrician said if kept in the back of the freezer, I could keep to 6 months. I've normally used them before the 6 months. Always using the oldest and storing the new to the back. I've always used these bags and love the size and durability. Hope this helps!
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A little more on these bags here : http://www.medelabreastfeedingus.com/products/584/pump-and-save-bags#!Features. I can't help more. I don't know that it has been demonstrated that these bags are unsafe. For the most part, the milk I pump is given to my daughter the next day, so it's not frozen (freezing makes the breastmilk less beneficial). The frozen milk is there just in case -- and to not throw away the extra.
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If you store the milk in bags, instead of bottles, the bags are best warmed in a bowl of warm water; this goes especially quick, if you store the bags lying flat. I breastfed, and hardly gave bottles, I used my warmer a couple of times, but found it to be unnecessary. Personal preference, I suppose. I had a number of different bottles that I tried, all of them fit in the warmer. Later, I used this a few times to heat up frozen food, it worked well, but I didn't stick with it.
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easily for a few hours, a flight would be a breeze to keep it chilled - but remember with FAA rules you cannot bring beverages on board- but for medicines or baby'smilk, etc youd be fine. We absolutely love it- take it on car trips a lot and the beach and it stays cold for a long time- ice packs also hold well inside if you know there will be a long period of time it wont be plugged in. We also bought a $30 converter with it that you can plug into a regular outlet a lot of planes have plugs nowadays too. So, if it is for medicine if you cal lthe airlines theyd find a seat for you that has an outlet too- enjoy!
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Yes. The box, the bottle label, and the package insert all say to refrigerate it. That means for storage. Having it unrefrigerated during shipping is not a big deal, and you don't need to worry about it when you take it with you on travel. It's not going to be ruined like milk if it's unrefrigerated for a few days.
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Hi, I pack my daughter's lunch at 5:30 in the morning. I don't pack my daughter milk but a bottled water from the fridge. I pick her up at 3:00 in the afternoon and while the water is not super cold, it is still cooler than room temperature. My daughter eats lunch at school around 11:30 in the morning and when I've volunteered at her school for lunch, the water was still very cold as if I just took it out of the fridge.
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Thankfully my daughter drinks her milk at room temp. I personally wouldn't since there is a piece that goes in the bottom part that is made out of the same material as the nipple.
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If you don't warm up the milk enough, the fats will stay solid and thus not get transferred into the baby bottle. These fats are important for brain development, among other things, so I just make sure the bags are warmed up enough so the fats are in solution (even if they are still solid, as long as they can transfer out of the bag), then I transfer into a baby bottle, and heat up the baby bottle to the temperature little girl likes best
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I use the Philips Avent BPA Free Breast Milk Storage. It's containers, not bags. But you can pump directly into them and also feed baby directly from them. It recommends tossing after 3 uses. They stack nicely in the fridge. BUT for freezing (I'm not there yet), I would probably just pour into any milk storage freezer bag. Less air in the container and probably takes up less room.
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I use mine to store pumped breast milk, which is warm when I put it in, so I use a small ice pack too. I imagine it would do a good job if the dairy was already cold. It will also depend on the temp outside the unit... if it's really warm, I think you'll need an ice pack, too.