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Sorry for the delay in replying....I usually tell pumping moms to store
their milk in 2 oz amounts to give the option of defrosting them one at
a time to not waste a lot of precious milk if the baby isn't really
hungry. If he is, it's easy to defrost another 2-ouncer. Better than
filling one 6 oz bottle and wasting 1/2 of it!
Margi
Vicki.Ryan wrote:
> More sort-of off-topic ranting here....cleaning out the pantry...
> found some old "breastmilk collection/storage" bottles that I've used
> for other purposes (like spices, chopped nuts,...) that are from
> formula "gift bags." Many years ago, when I worked in a hospital that
> distributed those bags and before I realized I'd be an IBCLC when I
> grew up, I acquired a few extra bottles from the nursery (or maybe
> from my very own gift bag that I was given as part of the "admission"
> process. it was even on the checklist of nursery nurses' duties, to
> give the bag to the mom. yuck). I was just appalled looking at the
> little bottles with the white lids with the name/logo/picture of the
> tiny bear (and wondering what that spice in there used to be? ha ha),
> and promptly threw them away. But what really irked me is that those
> bottles that came in a "breastfeeding gift bag" are only about *2oz.*
> I have a lot of bottles for pumping/storing (the ones with the yellow
> lids that came with my high quality double electric pump)-- way more
> than I needed or will need in the future, that I use for other
> purposes too (V8 juice in lunchboxes...homemade blueberry jelly....my
> co-workers always got a laugh out of seeing what I brought to work for
> lunch in my special "tupperware" and joking that my milk is looking a
> little bloody or a little blue today....) and noticed that they are
> *6oz.* Do you think the formula manufacturers are trying to very
> subtly undermine the breastfeeding moms' confidence with tiny bottles
> that are supposedly intended for collecting/storing expressed
> milk...."you won't produce very much milk...you'll need to supplement
> with formula since you won't make enough milk..."
> I don't know what are the current contents of the "gift bags" since my
> hospital is BFH, but I wonder if the bags labelled for "breastfeeding
> moms" still have such small milk containers in them. If so, it sends a
> powerful, subconscious message to breastfeeding moms and they probably
> don't even realize what effective marketing it is. Just a thought
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