I'm up at my parents' house about 2.5 hours drive away from home. I've got several oz of milk that I'd like to freeze and am anticipating a few more extra oz over the course of the next week. I'd love to be able to get the milk back home since with twins, extra milk is hard to come by and I'm starting work again in 3.5 weeks, so am trying to build up whatever sort of stash that I can. Is it possible to get that frozen milk home safely? I was thinking I would pack up my soft cooler with ice packs, then put the soft cooler in a hard cooler with more ice packs for the drive. Is this stupid? Any other ideas for how to get the frozen milk home with me or is it a lost cause?
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@Trailmix: I think your plan sounds great! If you pack each of the bags all together in one block and then use the chests that you are talking about, they'll probably stay pretty frozen!
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Dry ice in a cooler. Dry ice is amazing.
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@Trailmix: totally easy to transport milk!! I've done it through airports many times. I never liked soft sided coolers because when you put ice in them they aren't leak proof. I found just a good hard sided cooler plus ice works just fine
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We did a 9 hour drive with a hard cooler filled with frozen milk and it kept it frozen the whole way! We didn't have any extra ice packs either. I have read that breastmilk is still considered as long as it is still slushy (I've seen that on emergency power outage info).
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I've transported BM more than 4 hours away .... I stacked the bags and wrapped them in a ton of newsprint. You don't need cooler packs or ice for that short of a trip. They were still frozen solid when I got to my destination.
I'm trying to find the link that I read that said that frozen breast milk is colder than frozen ice packs/water ... but I can't find it, I'm bummed I didn't bookmark it. So, assuming that's true, cooler packs/frozen water would technically "warm" the milk while you transport it in a cooler.
I did find this link which kinda helps - http://www.onlythebreast.com/buy-sell-donate-breast-milk/bags-and-bottles/ but for that short of a distance, I don't think the dry ice is really necessary. -
yeah, we just did regular coolers with ice packs. i travel 2-3 hours almost once a week with frozen milk and only once when we were gone for about 6 hours and i hadn't completely frozen the ice packs did the milk get slushy. but it was being used that weekend while i worked, so it was fine! i also try not to freeze anything that won't go bad by the time i get home so i don't have to worry about accidentally defrosting!
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