This is one of my bugbears too.  I always advise mothers that if there 
is still ice crystals in the bag, it's still frozen, so refreeze.

If they are worried about cold milk, that's still sealed and in the 
container, then refreeze and mark refrozen, and then cut it with fresh.

This is in respect to the small loss of nutrients from re-freezing.  But 
it's still a gazillion times better than formula.

If milk has been sitting at room temp, and there is real worry it might 
have developed more bacteria, I advise to scald before re-freezing.  
Again, to mark as such, and use as filler with fresh.

All this is based on how you treat fresh milk!  Yes, milk that has been 
frozen and thawed and scalded and refrozen is going to have less 
nutrients than fresh... but it's still a gazillion times better than 
formula!  Mothers scald fresh for excess lipase after all, and then 
freeze.  The added 'loss' from another freeze in there, isn't going to 
reduce breastmilk to formula.

Drives me mad that we treat human milk, like formula. It's much more robust.

One thing I do say, 'tho' is for Mums to be scrupulous about getting it 
into the freezer.  The problem would be if it sat for a few days, before 
any of this.  But even then... it's only sour milk.  Not liquid poison.

It's important to know the time line, so good judgement can be made when 
the freezer fails. But at the end of the day, your nose is going to tell 
you if it's sour, and baby will just spit it out anyhows.  Using up 
'old' batches from the freezer, as filler to fresh stuff, stops it being 
thrown down the sink.

Morgan Gallagher

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> If your choice is breastmilk that has thawed and been  refrozen, or formula 
> -- which would you choose?   
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