Playtex Drop-Ins System – Breast Milk Storage Kit
- Guaranteed to be leak-free
- Pump, store and feed in one liner
- No pouring, no clean up
- Freezer safe
6535 From pumping to storing to feeding, the One Step Breast Milk Storage Kit is all you need! Milk is pumped directly into Drop-Ins Liners, which are then placed directly into the bottle. There’s no transfer from liner to bottle, making clean-up a breeze and ensuring that no milk is ever lost. Plus, you can store meals for baby in your refrigerator or freezer; simply heat or thaw and you’re ready to go! Features -Includes four Liner Rings, four Sealing Disks, four Nipple Rings, one Pump Adapter, and ten Drop-Ins Liners -Contains everything needed to store up to four Drop-Ins Liners at one time -No transfer from liner to bottle, so no milk is lost -No extra bottles required for storage -Compatible with most breast pumps ***Please note that these products cannot be shipped to Puerto Rico. We apologize for the inconvenience – feel free to call us regarding alternatives!
List Price: $ 8.59
Price: $ 8.25
Read this for Long-Term Storage Tips,
I used the Playtex drop-ins system with my son. He was exclusively breastfed for the first year of his life (with enough milk stored to last him another two months, until he was about 14 months old). I am about to have my second child and plan on using the same system, as it worked so well with our first child.
I am a school teacher, and after my maternity leave was up, I needed a way to pump and store milk for longer periods of time (as in several weeks ahead of time). I am a busy person, and didn’t want to have to clean bottles all the time, so the drop-ins system looked good in that regard. However, I did not want to spend a fortune on the storage disks/lids in these kits, and I figured that I would have to do this if I wanted to store the milk in the drop-in liners longer than a week. BUT I found a really good alternative that worked for me. Here’s what I did: I bought 2 or 3 Playtex Breast Milk Storage Kits. I would pump directly into the drop-ins liners with my Ameda pump, put the disk/lid on the liner, **put the liner in the freezer right side up…NOT on its lid (if need be, use a spare bottle to support the liner until it freezes)**, THEN after the milk is frozen, TAKE OFF the blue disk/lid, and put the liner into a large Ziplock Freezer baggie. The disk can be washed and used again on a fresh bottle right away. The milk-filled liner is sealed in a freezer safe bag (I would date the bottom of the liner so I knew how old the milk was – always use oldest milk first!), and I would keep adding filled drop-ins until the Freezer bag was full.
Here’s why this worked so well for me: When you pump into other milk storage bags, which are often much larger than one feeding (and some are really expensive!), you have to thaw out the entire bag…which means that the milk must be drank within a certain number of days. With the drop-ins (and storing them in a large ziplock baggie), my daycare provider would store the entire ziplock in the freezer, and she could pull out a drop-in sleeve of milk for each feeding, and it was just the right size for each feeding. If my baby was still hungry, she would just take out another sleeve of milk, and so on (I did pump some smaller amounts of 1-2 ounces in liners for situations like this). The waste was minimal….and believe me…if you are a pumping mom, then you know how time consuming it is to pump, and you don’t want to see any of it wasted! Plus, my daycare provider didn’t have to mess with trying to pour milk into a liner or bottle, because she still had the convenience of the drop-ins system.
I was able to pump enough milk to have a month’s supply on hand for most of the first year of my son’s life. I did not have problems with freezer burn on the milk (get a good freezer bag, though), and I did not have to buy tons of sealing disks. Like I said before, when I stopped nursing my son at a year of age, I still had another 2 months worth of milk stored up to last him through 14 months of age. He got the good benefits of breastmilk for an extended amount of time, and I was happy with the convenient system. A tip on this method, though: the 4 ounce and 8 ounce liners work best for doing this. The expandable 10 ounce liners don’t work well, because once the milk is frozen in the expanded liner, it is virtually impossible to slide the blue disk off. I actually found that the 4 ounce liners worked best for us, and it was easier to thaw out 2 of these as opposed to one 8 ounce liner, simply because a.) the 4 ounce liner thawed out more quickly (the second 4 ounce liner could be warming as baby was being fed) b.) we seemed to waste less, and c.) it was a convenient reminder to get a good burp out before continuing the feeding. HOWEVER, if you’re looking for an 8 ounce liner and can only find the 10 ounce expandable liner, then I have found that the generic brand of liners is still sold in 8 ounces (Wal-Green’s, Parent’s Choice, etc.). These liners worked just as well for us.
Hope this helps those of you who are looking for a more long-term storage solution.
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|Good for daily pumping, not great for storage,
I have a medela pump in style and also an ameda purely yours, these work with both pumps.
My little man is getting breastmilk only. He has not had any formula or supplement and I have been back at work for a month. I will not lie, pumping enough for his daycare feedings for an 8 hour day is a lot of work. I have to pump 16 oz per day for the four bottles he will need the next day. In the evenings when I get home I don’t want to spend all my time cleaning bottles.
My son took to the playtex nursers right away and I have never had any trouble with nipple confusion. He switches easily from bottles to breast. The nursers are great because I don’t have to wash the four bottles he used at daycare; just the nipples, rings, and caps. I wash the bottles every three days in the dishwasher instead but they never look like they need it. What I didn’t like about the nursers was that they weren’t compatible with my pump so I would pump into other bottles then pour that milk into the nursers in the evenings when I got home. Then I would have to clean 4 bottles and caps in addition to the items from daycare that needed to be washed. It seemed like a waste of time.
I like this system since you can pump right into the drop-ins liners. This saves me extra bottle clean up each evening when I get home. You can use the system in two different ways as well. You can put a liner into the ring, pump, and cap just as shown for this product; then store the whole thing on the cap in the fridge. I prefer to put a liner into the nurser bottle then pump right into that. I then cap the bottle and store it upright in the fridge or my transport cold pack. When I get home I just switch the cap for a nipple and cap and I’m ready for the next day. At the end of the day I only have to was the caps! Much quicker and with a baby, time is always precious.
As other reviewers have stated, this system is ideal for pumping for the next day. It is not as ideal for freezing or longer term storage since these take up a bit of space in the freezer (I prefer freezer bags that freeze flat). You will want two kits if you use a double pump and in that way you will get two adapters and 12 rings/caps so you are good to go.
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