Heather, hotels that cater to business people have a lot of resources which
we, as mothers, are often shy of demanding (politely, of course).

For example, many professional women who would not hesitate to politely
insist that they need a conference room with an outlet for their laptops
would be very slow to request a private room with an outlet for their breast
pumps.

In this case, imagine those business hotels with a 55 year old diabetic male
business traveler.    I am sure that they would find a hotel-operated
refridgerator or freezer in which he could store his needles, yes?

In short:  when I have rarely traveled overnight on business with a pump, I
have traveled with twice as many ice packs as I need at any one time.
After pumping, I put the warm milk in the cooler and call the desk, and ask
them to freeze my milk (well labeled :>) in their freezer, along with my
extra ice pack.   Before I leave, I take out my now-thawed first ice pack,
and replace it with my now-frozen second ice pack and the frozen milk from
the freezer.  When I get home it's kinda slushy, but now fine to use during
the next week or so -- in a pinch even to re-freeze (cf the experiments on
twice-frozen human milk that Rachel Myr reported from the Norwegian midwifery
journal) if it's used as soon as its thawed the second time.

Let me emphasize:   this is not a researched protocol, it's in the category
of  "some mothers have found it helpful to..."

Elisheva Urbas
just one of those mothers in NYC

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