Making bottles and sterilising bottles abroad

[Firstbaby1234]

I am just wondering how you guys sterilise your bottles when going abroad? And also making your bottles up, do you buy bottled water and then boil it?

Yes use bottled water with a low sodium content
Cold water sterilisation is probably easiest so take a tub or cold water steriliser and some Milton tablets

How old is your DC and where are you going? I think that has a big impact on the answer. When I was travelling across Canada with a 9-month-old, I used tap water and just washed bottles with dish soap, never sterilized. But if I had been travelling in Mexico with a 1-month-old I’d obviously only use bottled water and would probably try to sterilize bottles in boiling bottled water.

Pack your spare bottles into a Tupperware tub with lid, it doesn't need to be huge, just big enough to fit the bottles into and some Milton tablets.

You use the tub as a steriliser, fill it with clean water and a tablet in the morning, drop bottles in, then after 20 mins they're sterilised, but they can stay in the tub till you need them. Just shake the water off and fill.

I would use bottled water just for safety.

@UpToMyElbowsInDiapers my son will be 7 months when we go. We are travelling to Majorca in Spain from Manchester.

how big does the box need to be? Something to fit 2 bottles in at a time or more?

Can you get those mam self sterilising ones?? Think you just use the microwave

also I got bags for the microwave that you can sterilise stuff in

or those sterilisation tablets

We just bought one of those massive bottles of water, chopped the top off and took Milton tablets to sterilise the bottles (can be done in a washing up bowl if there is one) and used ready made formula.

Milton Combi Microwave and Cold Water Steriliser (White), 26 x 26 x 16 cm www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D6H9YGA/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_VMM6CPEY1TT99HG2RE9G?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Amazon has a milton combi microwave plus cold water steriliser

We are staying in a hotel and our room doesn’t have a microwave :( I think I’ll have to use cold water sterilising

Take cartons of ready made?

Tap water is fine in Spain isn't it? It was a few years ago now but I went to Spain when DD was 8 mo and bottle fed. I did a mixture of things depending on what we were doing the next day. I took a carton of powder with me as well as a 1l ready made bottle and I had a few of the 200ml bottles for travelling there and back.

The morning and bed time bottles I would make up the night before as I would have done at home, and keep them in the mini fridge and warm them when needed. I made the bottles up using tap water boiled in the kettle as I would have at home.

For the 2 other bottles she'd have in the day I would fill sterilised bottles with the boiled water, and measure out the scoops of powder into little pots and take them out with me in the changing bag. I'd then just add the powder to the water and shake when it was time for the bottle. I wouldn't generally make bottles up with room temp water however lots of formulas in other countries actually say to make them like that anyway so I figured it was fine.

Sterilising, I did a weird combi method of using boiled tap water from the kettle in microwave sterilising bags (just to use as containers) with cold water sterilising tablets for good effect! Left them there in the bags for the required time then left them to dry and put together as needed. Perfectly sterile, no, but obviously she was on solids and putting all sorts in her mouth by then so I felt comfortable that I was acting reasonably. She was fine, needless to say.

I travelled in France with my dd and as she was 6 months didn't sterilise after 6 months, all was fine. but obviously guidelines may have changed on sterilising.