we had a place here in melbourne selling that madela ones for around $5 for 20!!! was such a bargin, i checked tge other day and they didnt have any, just the lanolin!!
i used to get sterile urine specimin jars and freeze my EBM in them. They hold about 120mls. Otherwise i froze my milk in snaplock jars.
I used to express and when my twins were first born i was expressing heaps more than they needed. I ended up with a whole chest freezer ( you know one of those upright ones with the lid on the top) totally full. That is when the snaplock bags were better as they were more compact to store.
BTW EMB milk last longers in a chest freezer than a freezer that is attached to your fridge. (12 months in a deep freeze, 3 months in a fridge/freezer) so if you can store it in the deep freeze its better.
HTH
Odette
I found some at the biggest of our local pharmacies... we have about 5 in town all owned by the same people except for one, they were bound to be there somewhere!
I also recently found a reusable freezing tray thingo at Toys R Us - it freezes EBM into 30 ml sticks which you then pop out and put into a snap lock back so you can refill the tray. There were 2 of the trays in the pack and I think it was about $20... naturally after I bought it I had to finish the bags I still had and now I rarely express (can't be stuffed and DS won't take it anyway) so they haven't actually been used! Murphy's Law or what?!
When i had DD i was given a whole bunch of leftover bags - and didnt even use them all up (they were an american brand, playtex or something??) and I would fill one everyday, so the prices you are quoting for a pack of 10 are just amazing to me!!
I think i'll express into a bottle and just stick in a freezer bag. Cant be anything wrong with that can there?
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