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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