Hi all,
I have been pumping, freezing, and donating my milk for a very long time. Recently I have noted that milk that has been in the fridge for 24 hours smells and tastes bad. A bag of milk that was frozen for about 2 weeks also smelled and tasted bad. I have milk that has been frozen for a year. Same thing. I will be trying one sample of milk from each month that is stored to see how widespread this is. It may be that all my milk is “bad.”
I am working with a lactation consultant to try and maintain my milk supply as we go through the adoption process. I have super-sterilized my pump kit. I even tried my old ameda pump to see if maybe the new kit is beyond sterilization. The LC think I may have too high a lactic acid level. Her recommendation is I heat and immediately freeze every time I pump. She thinks it will be problematic if I even try to heat each pumping but save in the fridge until the end of the day (to try and save on the cost of milk bags.) She also thinks the milk I have stored is not safe for a baby.
I haven’t had need to use my stored milk for my baby in about a year. When I was using it, I would pump every day for a week and store it in the fridge. Then, when I worked all weekend, he got refrigerated, not frozen milk. Although the random bottle smelled funny and I’d throw it away, my milk did not usually smell, even after a week in the fridge. I have also been donating year old stuff (stored in a deep freeze) to an adopted baby. His mom usually mixed it with other milk, but he never got sick or had other problems from the milk.
Does anyone have experience with or thoughts about this? It would be horrible to throw away a year’s supply of milk.
Also, though it’s not good to microwave frozen milk, what about using a microwave to heat the milk to deal with Lactic Acid?
I have been pumping, freezing, and donating my milk for a very long time. Recently I have noted that milk that has been in the fridge for 24 hours smells and tastes bad. A bag of milk that was frozen for about 2 weeks also smelled and tasted bad. I have milk that has been frozen for a year. Same thing. I will be trying one sample of milk from each month that is stored to see how widespread this is. It may be that all my milk is “bad.”
I am working with a lactation consultant to try and maintain my milk supply as we go through the adoption process. I have super-sterilized my pump kit. I even tried my old ameda pump to see if maybe the new kit is beyond sterilization. The LC think I may have too high a lactic acid level. Her recommendation is I heat and immediately freeze every time I pump. She thinks it will be problematic if I even try to heat each pumping but save in the fridge until the end of the day (to try and save on the cost of milk bags.) She also thinks the milk I have stored is not safe for a baby.
I haven’t had need to use my stored milk for my baby in about a year. When I was using it, I would pump every day for a week and store it in the fridge. Then, when I worked all weekend, he got refrigerated, not frozen milk. Although the random bottle smelled funny and I’d throw it away, my milk did not usually smell, even after a week in the fridge. I have also been donating year old stuff (stored in a deep freeze) to an adopted baby. His mom usually mixed it with other milk, but he never got sick or had other problems from the milk.
Does anyone have experience with or thoughts about this? It would be horrible to throw away a year’s supply of milk.
Also, though it’s not good to microwave frozen milk, what about using a microwave to heat the milk to deal with Lactic Acid?
