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I seem to out of the loop on this one. The poster said she got the following
information from a web site. While I am waiting for her to let me know where
I can find the site, does anyone know if there is "NEW" research that says
it's OK/safe to add warm mother's milk to cold or to express directly into
cold mother's milk?

<<While it was originally thought that a mother had to cool her fresh
breastmilk before combining it with previously expressed milk, the latest
research now shows that you may pump directly into already refrigerated or
cooled milk as long as the milk is added within 24 hours. You may pump
directly into milk that has been stored at room temperature as long as you
do so within 10 hours. In both circumstances, you should follow the storage
recommendations based upon the time and date of the first milk expressed.>>

If I am reading this right it is saying you can leave EMM at room temp for up
to ten hours and its still OK to add freshly expressed milk to what has been
sitting around that long. This doesn't sound right at all. Last I heard was
that 6 hours was tops if mom HAD to leave it unrefrigerated.
There seems to be a real problem for the working mom. Some of them say they
keep their setups in the fridge between pumpings at work because setup and
tear down takes too much time.  Some just let the bottles sit with a block of
blue ice between pumps. I'd like to know if what they are doing is safe
[recommended] or is it a definite no-no. I was always taught cold to cold
because of bacterial counts and use clean equipment for every pump. Has
someone proved that isn't true?
Marie Davis, RN, IBCLC
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