Can anyone answer this question for me?  I've looked in all my reference books and searched the archives but can't find the answer.
I am mentoring a new LC and she taught breastfeeding class for the first time while I observed last week.  A mom had a question about storing milk and she told her that she could pump directly into a container of refrigerated milk.  I gasped (to myself) and asked her after class where she had heard this information and she said it was taught in her lactation management course.  I had always believed that milk should be chilled before adding to another container so that you don't change the temperature of the previously stored milk and encourage bacterial  growth.
The new Breastfeeding Answer Book agrees with the new LC's recommendation (I don't have the exact wording because I don't have the book at home).  All of the other references either did not mention this practice or only talked about layering frozen milk, not refrigerated.  Does anyone have the right answer?  I don't want us to be giving conflicting information to moms.  Is this the new recommendation?
Thanks in advance,
Linda Anderegg, BSN, RNC, IBCLC
in rainy Chicago

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