If you are doing bulk storage of liquid, use the filing method. That's what I did and I have months of soups fitted in two baskets in our freezer.

Danby: We do not recommend using with an extension cord. Somehow running a toy box sized appliance, extension cord or not, in a baby's room just sends up alarm flags for me.

Have you considered these will be manual defrost, and if inside, where will you accomplish that? I suppose you could pile towels around the drain outlet, it's not a size to produce a large quantity of wet if you had a way to do it over a hard surfaced floor....it would be enough to wet carpet. With a freezer that size in an indoor room temperature atmosphere, opened frequently, my guess would be about every 5 - 6 months.

I agree with the above. Unless you know you are returning to work soon after the baby is born you won't need to be storing anything. Simply exclusively breast feed on demand for the first few months at least. That is the best start you can give your little one and will ensure a good milk supply. Baby food won't be a concern for a breast fed child until well into the first year. By that time they can eat mostly what you eat. The only tool you will need is a fork to mash the foods. ;-)

I just bought a chest freezer for milk! But there is actually no milk in it! I love it though because I can make large quantities of food and freeze for later.

I had milk supply issues from the start and many moms I know have too. I wasn't pumping the first week so I didnt know that the baby wasnt getting enough milk until she kept losing weight. She was sucking for a long time, but she's my first baby and I didnt have a lactation consultant in the hospital so I didnt know any better. Therefore I recommend you pump regularly as well as feed your newborn on demand. And if you pump, you might as well save the milk. At 4 months, all of a sudden my supply went down again and I needed that milk. Actually it was when I stopped pumping frequently (due in part because I ran out of freezer space) that my supply dropped off. Now my baby drinks from the breast and from the bottle but I don't have extra to freeze. You'll use the freezer for something, though.

In the laundry closet sounds like the best idea to me!

My bottom shelf filled up quite quickly with my 2nd child so we bought an upright for the garage. It was packed! He would only nurse on one side, so I pumped the other side and stored in freezer.

With my first, there was maybe a few bags at a time at most. Point being, you won't know until you are there. The lanisoh bags store flat so it saves a bunch of space.

When and if u get to the point of needing more freezer space, perhaps a smaller chest style freezer u can put in the dining room. It's only temporary and probably better than storing outside in the heat and risk things going bad. We never froze baby food. It's so simple to purée small batches for a day or two. Plus, you won't know what baby would like, or even if baby would like purees. My second barely ate much purees, gravitated more towards solid food early on. Go figure!

It's not only milk I am thinking of - just more food storage in general in the future, as we will be eating at home ourselves more as well, and we feed our 3 cats a frozen diet so their food takes up a lot of freezer space. We are already jammed in there and could use more space now. But yes I do plan to return to work and pump, though I am aware that things don't always work out as planned. And yes before our baby is mobile we will need to baby-proof the house which would include ensuring the freezer is lockable. She will be in our room for at least 6 months anyway maybe longer.

Drains do not need towels or drain by themselves on the floor, they have plus and to manually defrost you remove the plug and attach a hose, feed hose to a drain or suitable container. We have no carpet in the house, LVP flooring.

I think the best spot would be the hallway closet beside the stacked laundry, where there is already an outlet and space. It's upstairs not near the kitchen but I could store longer term bulk items there and move them to the kitchen freezer as things get used up. Then the question is upright or chest format and brands/models?

Try the appliance forum. (And no extension cord).

I personally like an upright if you have the space. Easier to store and retrieve things.

I had one of these for breast milk, it's a real space saver: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000K4YSVI/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_a_it?qid=1466355199&sr=8-1&keywords=milk+storage+organizer&pi=SY200_QL40&dpPl=1&dpID=415odlT7xzL&ref=plSrch

You might want to check the dimensions to make sure you can fit it in the side by side (or you can put it in the new freezer).

I just used boxes. The 12 pack soda boxes work really well :)