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Date: | Fri, 12 Sep 1997 03:47:28 -0600 |
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Re: Jan Barger comment
> My own personal opinion is that you can store the milk until
> it doesn't taste or smell good. Do we worry about a carton of cow's milk and
> how many days it has been in the fridge? I don't -- if I think it has been
> there awhile, I do the sniff test -- if it's yukky, I throw it out.
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> We worry about the breastmilk going "bad" or losing some of the protective
> factors (immunoglobulins, antiinfectives, vitamins, etc etc), but if it loses
> a bit of this and that, is formula ever better? Perhaps the moral of the
> story is to relax a bit about it? Freeze the milk if you aren't going to use
> it in the next week, leave it in the fridge if you are???
My first comment is right on...very sensible, but here's another
thought.... I thought about the mom I just talked to yesterday. She
called to report " foul smelling poops- was it something she's eating?"
Anyway after conversation it turns out shes pumping and bottlefeeding
breastmilk [her pretty firm choice],, and it sounds like " oversupply"!
because no s/s of any infant illness, and she gets 30-50% more than her
baby can hold each pumping. She's supposed to call me back with outcome
of taking less out...ie.get supply in balance. But I did worry about
potential contamination of her pumping equipment, & went over "clean
technique" She pumps about 30 minutes before feeding baby - Do you all
think this would necessarily make the milk smell bad...that quickly?
>This really isn't a storage issue but...and I haven't been reading my mail lately..so mea culpea if I'm off base. There are so many situations of moms using pumped milk that I think we always need to be real clear and pretty conservative about generalized written or class instructions on milk storage, we can always relax, expand exctera as needed for individualized situations. But I would 100% agree that milk should't be discarded if there is no indication of a problem, and no fresher expressed milk to use.
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