I always recommend taking a plastic baggie and placing it upside down over the flange + bottle assembly in the fridge, as a cover. It may not be a perfect solution but it seems to me that it should help a lot to protect the flanges from drying out and from being contaminated by other things in the refrigerator. Margaret Longmont, CO > >1) The parts are not sitting in breastmilk staying wet - they are >drying out in the fridge therefore leaving dried milk on the parts that will >be there at the next pumping. Even if they are in a container - the milk is >still drying out on all of the parts. > >2) Unless the parts are put into their own ziplock bag or container >with a lid they are also being exposed to who knows what other germs are in >that fridge. That doesn't sound sanitary to me at all - or safe. *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]