Wendy Blumfield wrote: > We can`t usually ask babies if there is a difference in taste if the milk has been stored and refrigerated but obviously this baby is sensitive to change. > > My daughter Lexie had fresh milk when she was injured, and it was delicious! The mother had been eating a lot of chocolate when she pumped it so she said it looked like white milk but tasted like chocolate milk. The mom who donated the milk also gave us some frozen milk and Lexie just never could drink the frozen. She said it tasted funny. I added chocolate to it, and made some other things with it, but the fresh was what Lexie enjoyed. I do think that most babies don't get frozen milk when they can talk. Most mothers stop pumping at about a year, even if they go on, as I did, to nurse years. So frozen milk is mostly given to babies who are unable to communicate their preference. My 2nd child refused to take any milk--fresh, frozen, cold, warm, it had to be direct from the source. So I guess she was stating her preference. I was in a LLL conference session once, about the taste of breastmilk. I was there with my then still nursing 4 year old and I knew a few others in the room were also nursing older, talking children. The speaker was talking about how they "tested" the milk and they said they smelled it. I asked why they didn't find older nurslings to ask, and she said there were so few older children who were old enough to talk. I chuckled as did the others in the room who were nursing very opinionated older children. I certainly think that the right researcher could get together some older nurslings and moms and run some experiments on taste in milk... It could be not only on fridge vs freezer vs fresh but also on last night mom had garlic vs last night mom had chocolate. Joylyn Fowler > > *********************************************** 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