In Reply to: Travelling with Babies posted by ggquincy on Monday, 8. November 2004 at 13:46 Bali Time:
I took my little girl when she was about 8 months and I would definitely recommend taking a big plastic bowl with a lid (store clothes etc in it enroute to Bali in your suit case) and then use this and tablets and just cheap bottled water as long as they have the proper seals so you know they haven't been tampered with....buy from one of the big supermarkets say a 10 litre bottle to keep in your bathroom and use this as your 'store & sterilise water' as cheapest way to buy - doubling up on safety by having sterile water that you are then re-sterilising anyway! Then for filling up your bottles just use bottled water again - probably best to use a freshly opened 1 litre bottle each day to make up your 4 bottles of 200ml each or whatever you are using - not as economical but at least once opened only used for that day and not getting any airborne germs in etc. So you don't have to pre-prepare your day's bottles and store in a fridge, see before you go if you can buy from ToysRUs or a baby shop one of those plastic tupperware formula containers - they are sort of three little containers that sit on top of each other and can be used separately or together - they have a pourer on top. When at hotel if needing to make up a bottle just add your formula powder straight from the tin to your bottle and then warm (room service more than happy to do this usually or if you'd prefer to do yourself they used to let me come down to kitchen to do - if in middle of night I used to just let bub cry until I could warm bottle in a cup of boiling water). If you are out and about you can take a baby bottle with sterile water in it, plus one of the little containers with the pourer and then just add your formula when you need it - water will be room temp, so baby probably won't care that not 'heated' as such. I would also recommend taking some sort of small insulated soft pack (eg. the type that hold a wine bottle)and a hard icepack and when you are going out or whatever for the day, take a flannel that has been kept in the fridge or freezer and keep it in the same - great for mopping down baby/cleaning them up and keeping cool etc. My husband ended up using this more than baby did to keep himself cool!!!
Have a great holiday