Practical advice on storing and transporting milk expressed at work

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Sorry if this has been done before but I couldn't see what I'm looking for.

I am going to be expressing for DS at work when I go back. I have a single medela swing and work have provided me a room to use so that's all fine. I expect to express twice at about 11 and 3.

What I'd like to know from anyone who has done it is where did you store the milk? I am thinking I will put it into bottles and keep them in an insulated travel bottle bag with an ice pack. Will that work? I would imagine the longest will be from 11am until about 6.30 when I get home and can put it in the fridge. I don't really want to put them into my team fridge, its a bit personal!!

I had a tiny little beer fridge at one place I worked at, and second time around, I just used the team fridge, but then it wasn't packed to the rafters and nobody gave a fig.

How about putting the little bottles in a large lunch box together in the team fridge? You could chuck an ice block in there too if you like, but the freezer bag idea sounds fine!

I used Axifeed bottles in a little cool

When I was expressing I had some little bottles to store in which I put in the fridge freezer at work. I was also able to store my ice packs in there and tranported my milk in a little cool bag with the ice pack.

I used www.richardcassidy.co.uk/axifeed.htmAxifeed bottles and kept them, together with the 'wet' bits of the pump, in a little coolbag, with a freezy block, in the tearoom fridge.

Unless you're sterilising the pump before each session (uneccesary and a pain in the arse) you need to keep it chilled, so an 'insulated bottle bag' won't be big enough for that and the milk too. Just get a decent lunch-size coolbag.

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Axifeed

Thanks, I hadn't thought about chilling the pump so you are right, I don't think my bag is big enough but a bigger cool bag sounds a good idea. I'd like to be subtle if possible, because I am a bit although I know I shouldn't be!!

I put the bottles in a drawstring washbag (the sort that are just a single layer of fabric - mine was black microfibre from Tescos)and put it in the canteen fridge. No one ever noticed until the day that I had to find out who had taken it from the fridge.....

I think the odd is allowable tbh

I never minded bfing anywhere at all, but expressing and storing I was a bit more discreet about because without a baby around it just seemed that discretion was the better part of valour, as it were.

I don't know about finding sterlising a pain in the arse - I used to milton my "wet bits" and to be honest I was quicker than the other girls (we had 5 of us and they only gave us one room so we got to know each other quite well!) who just washed theirs - I gave it a good rinse, put the tablet and water in a tupperware container and left it there till the afternoon pump - which I guess only works if you can leave your kit in the room where you're pumping. That way you only need a small coolie bag and ice pack. And the smaller the cool bag the colder it will keep the milk.