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

             ***********************************************

To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest)
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
All commands go to [log in to unmask]

The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html