Making bottles abroad

Hi, I have just had my baby but we are due to go to Tenerife when she will only be 5 months old. I am formula feeding so wondering if anyone knows the best way to make/sterilise bottles abroad.

We will have a fridge and I do also have rapid cool flasks.

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Stacie

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We take Milton sterilising tablets, and a collapsible bucket (5L). You can then just fill it with tap water and put a tablet in. It’ll last for 24 hours and you can soak the bottles that way.
For making bottles, we just use boiled tapwater the same as we do at home. You can pick up pretty much all big Brand formula in Tenerife from a Carrefour or Mercadona (some of them have different names in Spanish just give it to Google)

I was Old school, and just took a thermos flask full of boiled hot water. And made them up throughout the day. If the water was too hot, I just topped it up with mineral water.

Or you could take premade bottles. But my two didn’t actually like the premade stuff which was annoying.

Milton cold water tablets x

You'll have a kettle in the room so you can just use your Nuby to cool the water and do a hot shot in the formula and mix x

Try her on the ready made cartons before you travel. You can get most brands in 200ml bottles. We took a mix of powder for making up morning/evening and some cartons for use at airport and on days out when we went to Spain. You can di click and collect at boots airport, it's really handy.

Fonteide bottled water is great for making up bottles due to low sodium/mineral contents (canarian own water).

As above with the Milton and collapsible bucket.

On another note, if by any chance you need to go to a chemist while there, go to a Farmacia, not a parafarmacia... the latter is not able to sell medicine and only sells "holistic style" remedies at a ridiculous price.

I lived in Tenerife for 6 years so if you have any questions about what to do over there etc feel free to drop me a message.

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