Mums & Dads - Dubai airport help!

74jax

Does it have to be that brand? Don't shoot me down its just a genuine question as I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to pick up whatever the airport pharmacy has?

I do have a DD but she's almost 18 and I can't remember what I did, I know I never sterilized, so I don't know all the ins and outs of presterilized milk, but I wonder if you could just use any brand?

KiKi

I'm not a mum or dad, but hopefully that doesn't take away from my contribution. Yes, you can take formula milk through Dubai airport, more than 100ml. You need to prove it's formula, though - ie, in unsealed purchased packs, not opened and emptied into a baby bottle already. I've not personally taken it, but friends have en route to Asia, and I've seen plenty of parents taking formula through Dubai when I've been on both British Airways and Emirates flights.
HTH
KiKi

apesxx

Surely they'll only make you test one or 2 of them, decant this into a bottle and just make sure that these are the the next bottles given to baby, sure an hour or so will be fine. How old is baby in question. It's only like going out for the day and putting a few premade bottles in the changing bag. Could try to plan it so feed is due not long after going through Dubai to use up any that they make you open.

bap98189

barbiedoll wrote: »

Bottled water isn't clean (sterile) enough to make up baby formula. It's not recommended anyway, as it can contain high levels of sodium, especially after boiling, which concentrates all of the minerals in it.

I'm sorry but this is just plain wrong. Boiling water does not suddenly increase the concentration of any minerals in the water. Nothing gets mysteriously added to the water when you boil it. Where exactly do you think it comes from? All that happens is the water heats up and then cools down again. The only way you could increase the concentration would be if you boiled it for a long time and most of the water evaporated.

And what claptrap have you read that makes you think that your baby is going get ill because you use some bottled water to make milk for one day! Have you read the mineral analysis on the label of a bottle of water?

mrsHall2b

Blimmin heck! Im assuming first baby.. I used to make my daughters bottles up and keep them in the fridge, (daughter is now only 2 so not years ago!) I am aware its not advised but she was totally fine.. companies will put things on their packaging to encourage spending more, you must throw away a bottle after X amount of hours and make a new one using up formula much faster than if you just refridgerated them. Its all money making.

You wont be the first person to fly with a baby, and anyway your baby being so young would be more likely to catch much yuckier bugs flying with such an immature immune system and all the other people around them than from premade bottles/opened bottles. Its cough & cold seasn remember everyone will be spluttering around everywhere.

sorry if this post upsets you but I dont actually believe that people are that finicky about baby bottles. littlie was 6 weeks old when I moved and during the move I made up a bottle with tap water, unboiled because I had packed the kettle up and not unloaded yet, I did it a few times also when my kettle blew up. shes still here, a real budda at 2 years old and wearing 4-5 clothes, no issues with allergies or anything else.

onlyroz

mrsHall2b wrote: »

Blimmin heck! Im assuming first baby.. I used to make my daughters bottles up and keep them in the fridge, (daughter is now only 2 so not years ago!) I am aware its not advised but she was totally fine.. companies will put things on their packaging to encourage spending more, you must throw away a bottle after X amount of hours and make a new one using up formula much faster than if you just refridgerated them. Its all money making.

You wont be the first person to fly with a baby, and anyway your baby being so young would be more likely to catch much yuckier bugs flying with such an immature immune system and all the other people around them than from premade bottles/opened bottles. Its cough & cold seasn remember everyone will be spluttering around everywhere.

sorry if this post upsets you but I dont actually believe that people are that finicky about baby bottles. littlie was 6 weeks old when I moved and during the move I made up a bottle with tap water, unboiled because I had packed the kettle up and not unloaded yet, I did it a few times also when my kettle blew up. shes still here, a real budda at 2 years old and wearing 4-5 clothes, no issues with allergies or anything else.

I disagree that the new advice about preparing formula is intended purely to make more money for the formula manufacturers - making it more fiddly and time-consuming to prepare the bottles is hardly in the manufacturer's interests is it?

And "I did XYZ and my baby did just fine" is hardly helpful is it? Otherwise we'd still have our newborns sleeping on their fronts, or rolling around on the back seat of the car without any kind of protection wouldn't we? The advice changes all the time, and I know it's difficult for new parents to keep up, but that's not a good enough reason to ignore it.

mrsHall2b

onlyroz wrote: »

I disagree that the new advice about preparing formula is intended purely to make more money for the formula manufacturers - making it more fiddly and time-consuming to prepare the bottles is hardly in the manufacturer's interests is it?

And "I did XYZ and my baby did just fine" is hardly helpful is it? Otherwise we'd still have our newborns sleeping on their fronts, or rolling around on the back seat of the car without any kind of protection wouldn't we? The advice changes all the time, and I know it's difficult for new parents to keep up, but that's not a good enough reason to ignore it.

However parents should use their own initiative than to blindly follow guidlines set out by people who dont know you.
all the sterilising etc is why so many children now a days are allergic to every bit of fluff they come across.

Jagraf

mrsHall2b wrote: »

However parents should use their own initiative than to blindly follow guidlines set out by people who dont know you.
all the sterilising etc is why so many children now a days are allergic to every bit of fluff they come across.

I think you may have just contradicted yourself there.:)

GwylimT

bap98189 wrote: »

I'm sorry but this is just plain wrong. Boiling water does not suddenly increase the concentration of any minerals in the water. Nothing gets mysteriously added to the water when you boil it. Where exactly do you think it comes from? All that happens is the water heats up and then cools down again. The only way you could increase the concentration would be if you boiled it for a long time and most of the water evaporated.

And what claptrap have you read that makes you think that your baby is going get ill because you use some bottled water to make milk for one day! Have you read the mineral analysis on the label of a bottle of water?

The minerals will be more concentrated as there will be a smaller volume of water but the same volume of minerals.

Kynthia

mrsHall2b wrote: »

Blimmin heck! Im assuming first baby.. I used to make my daughters bottles up and keep them in the fridge, (daughter is now only 2 so not years ago!) I am aware its not advised but she was totally fine.. companies will put things on their packaging to encourage spending more, you must throw away a bottle after X amount of hours and make a new one using up formula much faster than if you just refridgerated them. Its all money making.

You wont be the first person to fly with a baby, and anyway your baby being so young would be more likely to catch much yuckier bugs flying with such an immature immune system and all the other people around them than from premade bottles/opened bottles. Its cough & cold seasn remember everyone will be spluttering around everywhere.

sorry if this post upsets you but I dont actually believe that people are that finicky about baby bottles. littlie was 6 weeks old when I moved and during the move I made up a bottle with tap water, unboiled because I had packed the kettle up and not unloaded yet, I did it a few times also when my kettle blew up. shes still here, a real budda at 2 years old and wearing 4-5 clothes, no issues with allergies or anything else.

Well my child is just under 2 and the current advice is to make all bottles fresh, not like in previous times when people would make up a days worth and keep them cool in the fridge. Also if using powder then the water has to be over 70 degrees as the powder itself is not sterile and could make a child sick. Just because your child wasn't sick doesn't mean another couldn't get sick from a different batch of formula and obviously the younger the baby the more important it is to prevent them getting sick. Mineral water or water filters shouldn't be used to make up formula (I don't know if it specifies never or just not on a regular basis). Plus while a child over 6 months no longer needs everything sterilised, bottles should continue to be done as bacteria from old milk is particularly nasty. How much of it is scientifically proven I don't know but that is the advice given.

The OP isn't wrong for wanting to follow current medical advice, and if a parent decides to make an informed choice not to follow the advice to the letter then that's up to them. However I don't think it's alright to advise the OP not follow them or even mocking them, as it's not you potentially having a sick baby and feeling guilty in case it was your fault. Plus comments like "my child was fine" are ridiculous unless you know how many weren't, as not every child dies from measles or whopping cough but no one would suggest following the advice from a parent who's child recovered to not vaccinate their own child. The OP needs to make their own choices and is looking for help within the current guidelines.