What to take for a beach holiday with an 8 month old

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DS will be 8 months old whenwe take him on holiday to corfu. What should we take for him in terms of clothing, accessories etc? Also, what water can we use to make up his formula - and do we need to sterilise his bottles? Mucho gracias!

Take talc great for getting sand off.

REally - how does that work? One thing I'm really nervous about is DS eating the beach! Everything goes into his mouth ATM

Hi i went to spain with dd3 when she was 8 months a couple of summers ago. Found out a few things that may help. Used boiled evian to make up the bottles, i took a little travel kettle. I bought a pack of seven sterilising bags from mothercare which were great just fill with tap water and hang on a door. Swimming nappy's as well as normal and lots of cheap t-shirts. Also found one of the most usefull things was a sarong type thing i'd bought for myself as we could use it as a sun shade on the buggy ect . Talc great you just dust them all over when they are covered in wet sticky sand and the sand just falls off.
Oh and a big rug for sitting and crawling on.
Hope that helps. Ps we had a fab time

just pour the talc over the sandy area and rub off, the sand comes off in the talc. It's painless.

we found a small paddling pool great for sitting DS1 in on the beach - didn't put any water in it but it was a safe place for him to sit! We took bottles in a large icecream container (any tupperware type box would do) and a bottle of Milton (or tablets I guess) and sterilised in the box

cool - any more anyone? ALso, re the Evian, someone else said that I shouldn't boil it but just use out of the bottle...

Used a tupperware tub to cold steralise with ds (aged 3 months) - marked a line on it before I left so I knew how far to fill up. Didn't boil the bottled water (don't think you need to...) Loads of sun cream/sun shade etc....

the thing we found was the apartment we went to when was ds was 9 months had a hard tiled floor.ds was just learning to crawl and cracked his head on the first day.remember to put down covers off the bed or something if putting him down for an explore!
i second the sarong thing-brilliant.

We didn't bother sterilising in the strict sense. We washed the bottles as normal then boiled some water to give the bottles a final rinse. Take a plastic jug/container with lid, we used this for the teats, filled container with boiled water and left teats in to soak.

If its going to be hot and sunny think about one of those UV sunsuits and hats with flaps, it saves putting sun cream on them all day. I ordered one from The Beach Factory, www.beachfactory.com and it arried the next day.

A beach cabana tent is fantastic. I would highly recommend getting one of these.