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.
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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

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