Pumping mamas

I’m planning on switching from EBF to pumping and giving breast milk in bottles. How does everyone store their milk on the go? And how do you heat the milk up on the go?? Any other tips would be fab thank you!!
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I take a cool bag with me if I’m going somewhere that falls within feeding times. I store my milk in there. I also take a flask of hot water & a dish too to heat the bottles up. There may be an easier way than this, I’ve just not found it! 🫣

I never warmed up her milk, she preferred it to be chilled. So I needed to keep it cold even if we were going out for less than 2 hours (breast milk is fine for up to 2 hours out the fridge). If I was just going to be out for a short time, I packed her bottle bag with a round ice pack on the bottom and then a flexible ice pack wrapped around the bottle itself (search Lakeland flexible ice packs). If I was going to be out all day and needed to pump on the go, I took a larger insulated cool bag with lots of ice packs to keep everything cold. It can stay cold for up to 24 hours if you have a good insulated bag and enough ice! I stored the pumps and everything in there. Most cafes and restaurants will give you a cup of hot water for a baby’s bottle if you ask. My other mum friends usually did that if we were meeting up for coffee, or brought a flask.

Fresh pumped is good not refrigerated for 6 hours by uk rules I don’t reheat it he doesn’t care I have seen if you have it in a cool bag with ice pack it’s good for 24 hours Also have closed system wearable pumps that i can rinse with preboiled water and sterilise once every 24 Rules might be a bit diffrent in warmer climates but Brest milk is diffrent to formula and doesn’t have to be hot

Just a question on this, would you pump then give in a bottle or use milk already pumped from fridge/freezer then replace?? Just trying to get the hand of this as always EBF xx

You can pump and give fresh from there or you can pump and store in fridge let feed later Uk rules 6 hours room temp 6 days in fridge once out fridge and temp rises 4 hours 6 months frozen 24 hours once defrosted and 1 hour out of fridge Once fed from the bottle has an hour

What I do is give pumped milk from the fridge and heat it up. Once heated it cannot go back in the fridge or freezer to feed again later. If I pump more than what I know she'll eat, I'll freeze it. For example, my first morning pump is between 8-10 oz so I will freeze 4 oz because I know I will pump more throughout the day and she won't drink all that I pump in a 24 hour period. I usually won't freeze any of my other pumps throughout the day because they are usually only about 4 oz. Once milk is thawed from the freezer it needs to be used within 24 hours. So I feed from the fridge and replace it with what I pump which means I'm usually giving yesterday's milk or milk pumped a few hours earlier. Unless it times out that I just finished pumping and baby is hungry.

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