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Re: excess lactose and milk freezing
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the juliest person you know <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 6 May 2015 19:05:09 +0000
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"Date:    Tue, 5 May 2015 09:58:47 -0500
From:    Pat Young <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: excess lactose and milk freezing

Julie , dig around further in archives.  I think this has been discussed every few years, LOL. Maybe do your experiment with additional fats.  Is your daughter doing this for science fair?  Pat in SNJ"~~~~~~~~~~~~~

She is homeschooling, and no, it wasn't for the science fair, but she did use it for science credit.  (We also did one with cabbage juice, DampRid, and baking soda.  That one was more fun, to be honest.)  I've been wanting to do this experiment for a while, but I would have had to order 3 bags of lactose, and this was the first time I knew someone making the WAP formula and could give me a couple tablespoons.  

If this experiment had produced a result of milk not freezing with extra lactose, then I was planning to do a 2nd one with low- and high-fat human milk (using a gravy separator to engineer the milk) and no or extra lactose added, but I don't really see a point.  What do you think?  Is it worth exploring?  I kind of feel bad using human milk for this when it could be going to the milk bank!  (I got the milk from a MB donor.)  

When a mother's milk doesn't freeze, people often ask if she was drunk when she pumped.  Could I ethically do that study?  Get a mom drunk, then have her express her milk, then see if it will freeze?  I'd be a bit leery about doing that one!

Julie Tardos
 ==== Anything worth doing is even worth doing badly.


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