I am working on revising hospital and our hospital based pump station's policies on milk expression and storage for both heathy and hospitalized babies. After doing a literature review, I have these questions for the list. 1. Currently we allow the use of frozen milk in our NICU. Two articles in the 10/93 Am Journal of Infection Control titled "Aerobes isolated in fecal microflora of infants in the intensive care nursery: relationship to human milk use and systemic sepsis" and "Bacterial contaminants of collected and frozen human milk used in an intensive care nursery" have me questioning our policy. These articles implicate S. Aureus from frozen human milk in gut origin sepsis. What are you'all doing for breast milk storage in the NICU? Do you allow use of frozen milk? 2. I attended a conference last year and remember hearing about research supporting refrigerator storage of breastmilk for up to 8 days. I cannot find reference to this in the literature. Anyone know of this new guideline and the research supporting it. 3. Must the mom pumping for a babe in an NICU pump into sterile bottles? What do you do for other pump parts? How often does sterilization take place. I assume everyone now reccommends storage rigid plastic containers. 4. Can a mom use a lanolin product (P___L_n or L______h if pumping for a babe in the NICU. I guess that's enough questions for now. :> Thanks in advance for the discussion of these issues. Best Regards, Glenda ------------------------------------ Glenda Deahl, RNC, ICCE, IBCLC