In a message dated 4/13/2011 2:13:37 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
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Who can  provide me evidence for the following (or are they just 
assumptions and  old-wife tales?):
- do not ever shake human milk (I 
really would like  to know what has been observed under controlled 
laboratory circumstances  with shaken milk!)
- place human milk at a 
certain place in the fridge  or freezer for fear of temperature changes 
(now, really, folks, how are  the odds of rising the temperature of cold 
milk in a container up to  dangerous temperatures for bacteria growth by 
opening the fridge  door?)
- never mix fresh milk with milk already stored (or not untill they  have 
the same temperature)
- never heat human milk up to body temperature  twice
- don't use human milk after deep-freezing for 4 or 6 months
-  finish or throw away within an hour of the start of a  feed


I only have a study of one and is a healthy full term baby. He has been fed 
 20-40 oz of breastmilk a day for 10 mths and still doing this. This has 
been  mostly donor milk and a small amount that I was able to pump and save 
and then  use. I broke all the "rules" that I tell moms to follow. 
 
I did not harshly shake the milk but swirled it every time.
 
I didn't have the milk saved in a certain hidden spot in the  fridge or 
freezer.
 
I regularly put my warm, just pumped milk into the milk that had already  
been in the fridge and cold.
 
I would say at least half of the breastmilk that was used  was past 6 mth 
old and the oldest was just shy of 12 mths old and I had  about 2 wks worth 
of it that I couldn't bear to throw away and not use, so  I used it.
 
I can't even count how many times that I broke this rule "finish or throw  
away within an hour of the start of a feed" due to him not wanting it all, 
or  falling asleep, or traveling and out and about, leaving it by my bed so 
he can  finish it when he would wake in the middle of the night, taking a 
cold bottle of  milk and having it warm up in the diaper bag while out and then 
feed it to him  etc
 
My son never showed any taste dislike or stomach upset or other signs of  
trouble from this. I was such a rule person before this! But daily life and  
a real crying baby came into play and the practicality of trying to feed him 
 that didn't lend it self to following all the "rules" for which I didn't 
see an  overwhelming amount of evidence for the healthy full term baby. I 
also  wondered if many of these rules comes from what we say about formula and 
just  stuck them on breastmilk. This is what I became comfortable with doing 
for my  baby after seeing no effects on my baby. If I had seen things I 
would have  changed things. Thankfully due to me being sick I am not leading 
nursing mom  meetings or taking phone calls anymore because it would be hard 
for me to list  all the rules for a mom now that I truly understand about 
trying to follow them  and that also goes the same for the La Leche League 
statement on using  donor milk. I say give moms all the info (or lack of info 
regarding these  issues!) and risks and let them decide how to handle it. 
Perhaps you can say  these are the rules but I knew of a mom who did this.....
 
 
Kim Ann Lorber----someone who has been blessed with donated breastmilk for  
my baby by kind mothers and will continue singing the praises of  donated 
milk to everyone 
LLL Leader Quad Cities IA/IL
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