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As long as baby is in good hands, I’d go for it! Be sure to pump every few hours, especially at night and early AM. You can keep some refrigerated and freeze any excess. A lot of companies will cover Milk Stork to ship milk home if one of your companies covers it. Otherwise, pack a little cooler and dry ice or ice packs to fly home with. Many hotels are willing to store your milk in a freezer too since the mini fridges aren’t that cold Baby will be just fine and you’ll feel more confident in the experience after.
@Krysta thank you!
@Kathryn unfortunately just wouldn’t work. It’s a lot of client dinners, happy hours, etc.
You could take your baby and hire a local nanny - there are travel nanny agencies and stuff that will place good ones so you can still see your baby when not busy, etc. I’ve also hired them via care.com
My husband and I are returning back home and just picked up our boys (5 years old & 3 month old) from a 3 days, 2 nights mini vacation at the coast for our late anniversary trip. Although, I stopped breastfeeding so I have no suggestion/advice for that. Sorry!
I traveled to Las Vegas for a week with a 2 month old. I flew Delta. You can bring a stroller, car seat and a diaper bad and a bag of clothes for the baby for free. If you’re bringing formula/ breast milk let them know you have it going through TSA. They will check it no matter what. Some airlines request a birth certificate as a form of ID. On the plane ask for your babies first pair of wings and they will give a little pair of them for the baby and you to wear (It’s a pin)!
Sorry didn’t read your tittle all the way lol my bad 😆
When I have traveled with frozen breastmilk I have put it in my checked luggage with ice packs and prayed the luggage would not be lost. It’s always stayed frozen enough to refreeze on arrival for my 4 hour work trips to NYC or SF. You can also carry it on but I always wanted to travel as light as possible because I was taking my kids. I believe they would want to test each bag at security if carrying on.
@Kathryn thank you! That would prob make me nervous to check it, and since I’d be flying without baby I could prob just carry it on. I’m guessing they’d just check any non-frozen milk? Bc frozen isn’t liquid? Plus, idk how they’d check it if it was frozen. Did you use regular ice packs or dry ice?
I think dry ice is overkill for a normal flight time - what I noticed is that it’s way better to have full milk bags than smaller ones too. A 6oz bag will defrost slower than a 2oz bag
It takes 24hrs for something frozen to fully thaw in a refrigerated environment - a cooler might be a little warmer but it should stay frozen for quite a while - maybe 12hrs? I’m sure there would be an official number on that somewhere
@Kathryn awesome, thank you so much!
Not with this baby but with my first we went to a music festival in another state and drove so we left my at the time 3 months old with my mother in law for 6 days. I had her text me when she fed her so I knew to pump but you could also just make a schedule of at least every 2-3 hours during the day and if baby sleeps thru the night at least once overnight. Your supply should be fine! I remember when I got back it took baby a few minutes to want to nurse again since she had gotten used to a bottle. I would also make sure whoever watches her does pace feeding. Babies can get used to how they don't have to work as hard with a bottle and it can make them prefer the bottle. As for flying, I've done that a lot with milk and they really make it so easy. It doesn't matter if it's frozen or not (but frozen will have a better chance of staying cold enough), and ice packs are allowed. They will probably open one and test it. Be sure to fill the cooler, empty place will make things thaw quicker.
You can also power pump once a day if you're worried about your supply 🙂
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@LeAynne so helpful, thank you!! And good reminder about paced feeding. The relative that would watch him has been shown before, but I know she wouldn’t do it unless I reminded her and showed her again 🙄
Why can’t the baby go? The earliest we have traveled with a baby is 5 weeks old. Have never traveled/been away from my kids overnight.