Longhaul flight and formula feeding with six month old infant

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I am flying to Canada with my daughter in a few months time who will then be just over six months so will be on some solids but we will also need to formula feed her. My question is, has anyone does this and if so how have you gone about it?
My idea was to bring enough bottles with sterile water with me and powder to make up as we went along. I've read that you can take as much food/formula/bottles as required. But the problem is that I am flying alone without my husband, carrying that many bottles filled with water plus all of the other things she will need is going to be heavy. Can we use bottle water without boiling it to make up formula feeds? I know I could get cartons on the otherside at Boots, but how do you open it, dont' know about anyone else but I need scissors to open them.
I feel like the answer should be obvious and I am looking too far into it, but really don't want to be caught short and not have enough for her incase of a layover, etc.
Any ideas are welcome!! Thanks ladies(or gents.. ;) )

The answer is that it does involve carrying stuff. I completely agree re scissors and cartons but you can tear it with your teeth. Tbh that is probably easier in my experience than the powder route.

It's not recommended to make up uk formula without 70 degree water as 1. Need to kill bacteria that may be in it 2. It
Doesn't mix as well. That said a compromise can be to take powder and bottles (or in bottles as saves on extra powder containers ) . Grab some water when through customs and take a small flask with you. Ask cafe (or air hostess ) to fill this with hot water. That way you can use mix of hot/mineral water to do bottle . Also go for low sodium water (Evian or similar if poss).

Oh and if you take food/formula you generally need to taste it which means you are dealing with opened stuff which is a hassle so better to buy it airside .

The other thing is to take a little extra - unless you have extra formula etc in luggage (or are staying with family) as last thing you want to do when off a long flight is hunt for formula or baby food.

Good luck and dont worry- took dd long haul a fair few times at this age and it's manageable (if bulky )

I personally would really recommend taking the UHT packs. The advantage is while it makes your luggage heavy at first, every time your DD feeds your bags will get lighter! But it is much easier than faffing around with water and IME the stewardesses get iritated at having to fill up formula and repeat. If you cannot open with your teeth, you can ask the stewards for them to do it I am sure.

Also, at Heathrow they make you open 50% of what you are carrying. I would recommend taking double what you think you need, decanting one after tasting for immediate use and discarding the rest. I found that boots airside did not have a great stock of UHT formula, as everyone was buying it, so better safe than sorry. Mind you, I was travelling at a very busy time, and I think a friend of mine actually reserved forumla stock at boots airside in advance for this very reason, but I am not 100% sure about that.

Not sure how long the trip to Canada is, but I took DC1 to NZ when he was 3 months and exclusively ff. I allocated one UHT pack per two hours of flying and waiting time plus 2 left over 'just in case' of delays. It worked fine, but was - yes- a hassle. After advice on MN I also took sterlilisng tablets for sterilising bottles, along with a huge emoty tupperware container. That worked well. The container was storage, but then could be filled with water and steriliser and the bottles put in it at my seat.

Good luck!

sorry about typos.

Oh, and I thought the amount of 'extras' I was carrying was crazy, and over cautious, but we got stuck in HK for 17 hours unexpectedly. The extras were MOST useful!