Expressed milk
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Topic: Expressed milk
Posted By: Bel
Subject: Expressed milk
Date Posted: 16 January 2008 at 7:14am
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Help - I have been expressing a little milk for Luke to give him in the evenings to top him up - it is working really well and means that I can get him down to bed earlier.
We are off to CHCH today and I am just wondering how to travel with EBM? I have a bottle here of EBM, how do I takeit. I just read on the kellymom site that it can stay at room temp for 8-12hrs, is that after it has been refridgerated tho?? I expressed it last night (around 10pm and again this morning (6am) and it is all in the fridge... ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids 
Luke (09.11.2007) Amy (01.04.2009) |
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Posted By: Redbedrock
Date Posted: 16 January 2008 at 7:33am
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I used to take it out the fridge as i was going out the door, then store it in an insulated bag with one of those gel ice paks. It is no problem if it is at room temp for a few hours but I just preferred to keep it chilled for as long as possible, like ordinary milk. I just didn't feel comfortable keeping it out of the fridge for that long
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Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 16 January 2008 at 10:28am
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When we travel by car and if I express I use a car fridge that plugs into the lighter ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: babyg
Date Posted: 16 January 2008 at 10:09pm
Bel, i would freeze my milk and then put it in my baby bag's insulated compartment straight out of the freezer. It takes several hours to thaw in there so i knew i had heaps of time and there would be no chance of it going bad. And then, if i needed to use it before it had completely thawed, i would just run the bottle under water (even cold does the trick). The only problem i found was warming it at the other end, cos you can't heat BM in the microwave  .
Good luck. ------------- Ev, Mum to: Carys Ruby - 4 October 2007 Spencer James - 2 July 2010 |
Posted By: babyg
Date Posted: 16 January 2008 at 10:12pm
Oops, sorry - i now see that this info would've been too late for you anyhow. My bad. Oh, well - it might be of use to you in future! Hope your trip went successfully - can't wait to hear about your new pup  ------------- Ev, Mum to: Carys Ruby - 4 October 2007 Spencer James - 2 July 2010 |