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In general it is probably better that breast milk is not frozen at all - I
encourage mothers who return to work and need to keep a store of EBM to try
and keep ahead of themselves so that they have enough milk in the
refrigerator for two or three days. I know that sounds funny - when do we -
mothers of children at any age - ever manage to keep ahead of ourselves!!
But any form of storing milk and returning to work involves some sort of
organization skills.
Freezing reduces the anti-oxidents in the milk and since the milk supply
develops in quality as well as quantity together with the baby, milk that
was pumped a month before use may not be ideal.
However, frozen or not, rethawed and frozen or not, it must be better than
formula.
Wendy Blumfield
NCT Trained ANT Tutor/BFC
Israel Childbirth Education Centre
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Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 12:55 AM
Subject: Refreezing breastmilk
> Does anyone know if there are any studies that have been done on
> breastmilk that has been frozen, thawed, and then refrozen?
>
> *Everyone* says, "never refreeze breastmilk." I want to know why. Is
> this just because we've always been told if the meat thawed, don't
> refreeze it
> -- because why?
>
> Have you ever gone to the grocery store and looked at the fish? A lot of
> the fish was "previously frozen." Do you take that home and refreeze it?
> So why can we do that with fish and not breastmilk -- or hamburger -- or
> peas?
>
> Is not refreezing breastmilk evidence based practice or common practice
> just like we know that if a mom eats cabbage/broccoli/spicy foods the
> baby
> will get gas? Or that breastfeeding babies HAVE to be burped. (When was
> the
> last time you saw a mother cat whap their kittens on the back after a
> feed?)
>
> If your choice is breastmilk that has thawed and been refrozen, or
> formula
> -- which would you choose?
>
>
> Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
> Lactation Education Consultants
> _www.lactationeducation.com_ (http://www.lactationeducation.com/)
>
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