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[quote=Anonymous]BTDT - and it's not so bad.

Pumping on a plane is not bad - you just occupy the bathroom for a while, or if you have the benefit of an empty seat next to you I even did it in my seat under a nursing cover.

As to whether you need a converter to charge your pump, check the manufacturer.  I did not in Latin America, but Asia may be a different story.

You'll probably have to resign yourself to pumping and dumping for the most part.  It's not hard to refrigerate in a hotel (they'll give you a fridge even if the room doesn't come with one if you tell them its for 'medical supplies') but it's very hard to freeze anything including your ice pack unless you find a helpful person to put the ice pack in the hotel kitchen freezer, and I just didn't trust the refrigeration to last for the 12+ hours of travel time.

Buy a pack of the Medela cleaning wipes for the pump parts - I thought they were too expensive to use reguarly while pumping at work, etc. but for travel they were a lifesaver - much faster than trying to wash all your pump parts in an airport bathroom.

Good luck -- it's doable!

-- signed, the mom who BF'd to 11 months including 3 weeklong overseas trips)[/quote]

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