Laurie says,

> Actually I get a bit nervous about keeping milk out for that long. Under
> the
> normal circumstances, milk is meant to be kept inside mom til ready to be
> consumed directly at the breast. I know that some work has been done about
> keeping milk at room temp for longer, but I believe that should be done only
> when there are no provisions for refrigeration

The interesting thing about the original study is that the bacterial count of
freshly expressed breastmilk left at room temperature for 10 hours was
compared with that same mother's milk which had been refrigerated for the same
length of time.  The bottom line is that there was no significant difference in
bacterial count of milk left at room temperature vs that milk that was
refrigerated.  What was also interesting was that in some instances (not all), the
bacterial count of the milk left at room temp was LESS than the aliquot that was
refrigerated.  In some cases, the room temp milk at 10 hours had less bacteria
than the milk that was freshly expressed and cultured immediately thereafter.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
Lactation Education Consultants, Wheaton IL
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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