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Just a quickie......will most shops/hupermarkets sell SMA powdered milk and baby food ie cow and gate/hipps organic and the like????

Many thanks

Carl

Where abroad? France?

French babies get an aisle to themselves in most supermarkets and while I can only dimly remember the brand names I do recall that the french brands of babyfood  actually looked and tasted like food, rather than slime coloured wallpaper paste. My offspring certainly lapped it up anyway and I actually brought some home, for emergencies!

Someone else will have to answer about milk brands. I breastfed. Would a couple of tins of powdered milk take up that much space? Might be better safe than sorry, especially if the baby is only happy with one specific type. I think the formulation can change over different countries.

One really important point though. Some french bottled water can have too high a salts level for using when you make up babymilk and for small children to drink. The french know this though and they clearly mark the bottled waters that are suitable to use for babies and small children, so look out for the logo, usually a small picture of a baby. You'll still have to boil it for small babies though.

Sorry I should be more specific, re reading my posts I dont have post a load of c++p sometimes.

Yes its France......I'm posting on behalf of a wife who panics a little.

Thanks for the tip on the water

One other tip! French nappies are fine and they have all the usual brands, but French sizes are smaller. Try going one size up if you're buying them there and your baby is at the top end of a size range.

My daughter took her baby to France and she took his baby milk from home, also some SMA prepared milk in cartons for emergencies, she also took some jars/tins baby food, but as she always prepared fresh food at home, she usually did the same on hols.  I think she took his little baby blender as well.

They obviously sell all the baby milk and foods in the supermarkets, but they are not always the familiar names to us.  She did run out of nappies and had to buy some in the supermarket, but be warned they are very expensive in France, she found them about double the price they are here.

Jill

We had a Keycamp mobile home holiday in Brittany when my youngest was 5 months old. I took all his Cow and Gate milk powder, bottles and sterilizer. As I never used jars, I pureed vegetables in the same way as at home. Luckily the mobile home had a freezer, so I cooked and froze all his vegggies on the first day in ice-cube trays and then took out what I needed each day. I also took baby rice and baby cereal.

I did forget to pack the baby bath, so we had to wash him in a washing-up bowl!

Hi

France has different baby milk so you won't be able to get the normal brands we have here. I opted to use cartons on holiday so worked out how many I would need but I also took a pack of the powder just in case! Instead of taking the sterliser I just made sure I had a big enough saucepan to boil his bottles, and dummies just as good as the steam sterlizer.

The French baby food is soooooo much nicer that ours, I used to try and make my own as much as possible but for convience on holiday took a few jars with me, but bought most of it when I was out there.

So in summary take your own milk but everything else you can get out there!

Quote: Originally posted by Bossynix on 08/7/2009

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So in summary take your own milk but everything else you can get out there!

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Yes, I'd second that. You're on holiday....why make life too complicated?