Breast milk on the go

[AshleyCali2Uk]

For my moms that breast feed and pump and freeze/fridge the milk
How do you manage feeding the baby your pumped milk while out and about?

How do you warm it up and feed baby while out? Or Do you just breast feed when you’re out? and skip the bottle ?
Are there any must haves for bottle feeding breast milk on the go that makes it easy?

I want to pump and give DD a bottle. and I was wondering if it’s easy to give breastmilk to her in a bottle while we running errands or am i better off just getting a cover and sitting down somewhere to feed her the ol fashioned way I’ve been doing.

Heyyyy - freshly pumped breast milk can stay out for 6 hours according to NHS - so I would pump yhen just take the milk out in storage bottle and put into feeding bottle when needed. I give it to baby at the temperature it's at / i don't heat it up. If i'm taking BM thats been in the fridge I have a little bottle bag with an ice pack in and keep it in there. Again just give it to LO at the temperature its at (cold). I've done this from the startband she takes it at any temp - I tend to only warm up her evening bottles really to try snd get her into a sleep mode haha !

otherwise there are portable milk warmers I believe or the old asking for a pot of hot water to sit the bottle in x

Here are your options:

• freeze breast milk in individual BM bags. This gives you a bit more time because by the time it has thawed you have 6 hours to use it.

• take milk from the fridge and carry it around as it is for up to 6 hours.

• take milk in a freezer bag.

In all circumstances you can take a bottle warmer of hot water and put the milk in the bottle or the bag into the hot water. Tommee tippee do one (not sure if it's available in the US). Basically it's a flask but the outer layer is large enough to hold the hot water in and place the bottle in, so you don't need to ask for hot water or a receptacle to place the bottle into.

But the easiest thing to do is just feed when out and about from your boobs. This is what I always did. I started to use a bottle a bit when my babies were older and wouldn't concentrate on my boob so I would be sat with a boob out whilst my baby peered around the room 🤣

Feed her yourself!

I only pumped so that others could feed my baby when I was elsewhere. My pumped milk was precious because I couldn't pump enough to keep up with demand (I was away for her for 10 hours a day three days a week) but fortunately I had built up masses of supplies before I went back to work when she was 5 months.

It would never have occurred to me to "waste" it by feeding it to her when I could feed her myself.

And I definitely wouldn't bother with a cover either.

I had high lipase so she would only drink it a few hours after pumping
It was there to give a few hours sleep rather out and about

I just got it out and fed wherever I was. A close friend did the same and another quietly went and sat in the toilet. I have breastfeeding tops from m and s which pull apart where required and are super comfy so I'm still using them 2 years after stopping breastfeeding! I had a big scarf for if I felt uncomfortable but I only really used that around my dad or fil or if she was doing a lot of fussing on the breast.

Amazing I thought the milk had to be my body temp or something so these are all great tips! I usually just breastfed when out and about. But this last time I breastfed my son for 2 years and I'm just like I never want my nipple in a child's mouth again ! Hahaha I'm sure when DD gets here that might change but as of now I want to bottle feed my milk. And breastfeed if i need to.