Rachael wrote: The next most important is that even freezing and thawing the breast > milk twice doesn't appreciably shorten the 'shelf life' of this high quality > food. Wishe I'd known this when I was storing up milk so I could go on a 3 day trip away from my 9 month old baby. After a week or so's pumping my husband left the freezer door open and thawed my 'liquid gold'. Could've kept it to use it seems. Karleen Gribble Australia _ ---_l\ / \ \_ ----- __/* o *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html