One of the things we are concerned about is the water quality in Pakistan. One of the ideas I had was to buy one of those hard-shell suit cases and take spring/distilled water bottles for my daughter’s formula and drinking in Pakistan. I know you can get distilled water in Pak too but I’m just not too comfortable relying on quality of those in Pakistan. The other thing is the use boiled water in Pakistan which I’m sort of Ok with.
My question, anyone else faced similar situation and what they decided on? Is it a good idea to take water with you from US or Pak water does just fine?
Also, what else we should we take to Pakistan with use for the baby besides the usual stuff like diapers, formula, mosquito repellent etc.?
take baby food and baby gerber juices as well as cereal.Snacks like cookies etc for the baby too.
I wouldnt be too concerned about the water as they have nestle water there, which is good to use.
Diapers Diapers and more Diapers. I got my kids like extra extra from Sams Club. Its always a good idea to over pack the diapers.How long are you going to go?
I would just buy sealed bottles of international branded bottle watter in Pakistan...I know you can get brands like Nestle and Evian in any major city there. If thats too expensive, you could always just bring a Brita filter with you, and filter boiled water to make sure its clean.
Roman, you can get good bottle water there and diapers as well. Of course the diapers are very expensive but it'll save you a lot of room in your baggage.
Be sure to take over the counter meds, like infant Tyelenol, Benadryl...ask your doc. Also carry your kid's immunization records and her favorite snacks like Ask99 mentioned above.
Roman from experience, I took my 12 months old to pakistan, the water in the nestle bottle is good, we did not have any problem of that, u can boil that water if u want, just to be extra secure.
The problem i faced, take a electric boiling machine with you, oh i forgat u are in the USA and electricty might be a problem, we bought one in pakistan and it did not have an automatic stopper to it and i almost burned it ...ohhh
Do take enough of the formula she is drinking, I gave her cow milk from pakistan as the one i was using finished and she got sick. Also take enough of baby food, lots of it.
Take lots of warm cloths if u are in islamabad ... dont know about lahore winters.
u can get diapers (pampers ) in pakistan and they are good as the ones from outside.
Ladies, so fine, water is settled but what about juice? We give Myra apple juice mixed with water and my wife bought whole case of apple juice bottles from BJ’s yesterday which is going to be bit of a logistical challenge and I was thinking either to take powdered form concentrated apple juice (I don’t even know if you can get that in the market but the usual juice from concentrate in the supermarket is made the same way so why not?) or just use the ones available in Pakistan. Any experience with that? Is the Pakistani apple juice ok?
The quality of pampers is different in Pakistan as compared to the quality in US, always leaking after 3 hrs, I took two big packs of 102 means total 204 pampers from here but due to winter all was gone and I have to buy diapers from gul plaza in karachi, but not works beeter as here, so If u have space put diapers in it.
nestle water is best....... but do take diapers.... if your baby is used to huggies, the ones u get in Pakistan get wet quickly and at the end my baby got rashes in winter.
first of all tell me roman where are you going in pakistan??if it is LAHORE then maybe my information will be useful for you.
my son was 2 months old when i took him to pakistan.and he was having similac at that time.dont worry in lahore u will find everything .even the baby food and juices too.now each and everything available in pakistan .first the diapers ,well i was using pampers BABY DRY and i took alot of them with me,i stayed there for 7 months and then i need cruisers ,which i easily got from there .its a pack of 250 pamper at the price of 800 rs.
my son was having heinz,gerber baby food and baby juices .i was shocked to see all the variety there.theres this store ALFATEH in liberty ,they have everything..by EVERYTHING i mean EVERYTHING .:Das for water plz only use nestle ,not anyother water ,not even aqua fina.
best stores of baby things are
ALFATEH(liberty)
HKB (defence)
EnemBaby(liberty)
they have everthing even avent feeders:)
diapers quality is the same.i am telling u abt pampers,i dont know abt others ,as i was using pampers for my son.
