How do you bottle feed your baby when you're not at home? I've created a simple
cheap and effective way for you to feed your baby anywhere in the world. And that
includes at your friend's house, at your parents, at the park, on an aeroplane, on a
train, at the top of The Eagle's Nest. at the top of the Empire State Building, in
a cave. Literally, this method will work for you no matter where you are. But more
importantly it costs minimal amounts of money and as a first-time parent we all
know how expensive baby equipment is. So just to show you, here's a video that I
made for you guys in Luxembourg! We recently enjoyed a three-week road
trip around Europe with our 7 month-old son George in a converted Ford Transit
van. Enjoy the video, if you've got any questions feel free to ask them in the
comment section and we'll try our best to answer them for you and if you're
looking for more tips and tricks then come and join us
and our social media channels @Gemma andgeorgetravel, enjoy.
It's quite simple really and there's three pieces of equipment that we will
not travel without. The first one is our Tommee Tippee thermos flask. So in the UK
this cost around 14 or 15 pounds depend on where you purchase it from and it has
and can hold enough water to warm up one bottle. We have nine ounce bottles
and I know in Europe you can buy and purchase twelve ounce bottles, and I have
got some of those also and this does work for them too. All you have to
do is obviously boil your kettle before you leave, put it in your flask and then
when you need to feed, you just pour the water inside and then place the bottle
in there leave it in for a few seconds or a few minutes dependent. You can also,
George grabbing another important item! You can also when you're burping your
baby pop the bottle in here, so that it keeps warm whilst you're moving along.
Now what happens if you don't have access to a kettle? All you have to do is
go into a cafe or any kind of restaurant and give them the flask and they'll fill
it up for you. Now I always tend to unscrew the lid but with this particular
flask you can pop the lid to lock it and pour it out that way. Now obviously
you can get lots of different types of thermos flasks, but for us because we're
traveling and we're carrying it around, we don't want it to
be too heavy. We don't it to be too large either so this for us has been a
phenomenal purchase and I've used it all over with.
The second piece of equipment that you will need is a milk powder dispenser.
Now again, there's lots of different varieties that are available on the
market. This one came from Tesco and cost a couple of pounds and works really well
for us. You can fill it up before you leave and you literally just open the
lid and then just dispense it into your baby bottle.
You need to find out how many scoops of your powder these can carry. So if for example you are using
like we are a nine ounce bottle and you purchase a milk powder dispenser
like this one, that is meant to last you all day and that could be four or five
feeds, you are going to struggle. This is available for three feeds for us and
each compartment hold nine scoops so therefore will produce feeds for George
of nine ounces three times.
Carry a backup! George tends to eat more for
his morning feed and for his night feed and four then we just use plastic
containers that are meant the weaning. This is one here and this will carry, I think
eight scoops, so we have two of these. Buy them in a packet, cheaper and cheerful.
They wash up really well which helps and they've got a very good seal lid for
when you're moving about. So we're a big big fan of these and obviously the third
thing that you will need is the baby bottle itself and so for us I always
have been ready-made here. I make these usually the night before and I'll get
bottled water, I'll put it in the kettle and boil it. I'll let it cool down and
then I'll fill up the bottles for the next day. So for us, George feeds four
times a day and usually there are three or four
hours apart. I keep them always in a ziplock bag because they leak! And when
you're moving around you don't want your bag to get ruined. Also, if
for example now, George hasn't taken his nine ounces I
think he's going for a bit of a teething phase or a growing phase,
where he's not that interested in his milk. We do try to wean him it's
obviously quite difficult when you're in a van, like we are at the minute. We have
got baby porridge, which when we have access to the van around his
feed-in time, at the 3:00 p.m. we will do that. Or at the minute we've just gone
and purchased some baby food from a supermarket. So this is a really good
example of why you should keep your bottles separately in a ziplock bag. So
George has got this now, you can see we're outside a museum, it's a really
nice place where would we pour this water? So we're going to have to keep that
in and then I put that in a ziplock bag. Here's one I have and then I can just
close that and just be safe in the knowledge that that's we're not ruining
anything we're not there looking like scruffs by pouring out baby milk on a
nice street and that everything for the rest of the day is absolutely fine. So
there you have it, that's really all you need when you're feeding abroad or are
feeding anywhere outside of your home. You can use this when you're out in
the car, you can use this when you're on a day trip, visiting friends, really it's
quite simple and a cheap way of doing things.
All in all, a £15 flask and a milk powder dispense that's a couple of
pounds. Your baby bottles are standard, you're going to need them whether you
are formula feeding or breastfeeding and expressing. As you can tell we've just
feed George so he's quite happy now. Always carry around with you a spare bib
and spare muslin cloth. Again, use a Ziplock bag.
You all know out there, how smelly stale milk muslin cloths can get and if it's
really hot weather like it is currently in Europe, you don't want to be walking
around smelling of baby vomit! And so there you go. I hope that you've
enjoyed watching this video and that you found it useful. If you have, feel free to
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