[LilacMama]

My baby was super fussy for her babysitters (grandparents) while I was at work this evening. She refused to take her bottle of EBM. My mom tried the milk

and she thought it was funky. It was refrigerated for only 3 days! I've tried it (geez...) and I can't decide...

It doesn't smell bad. It doesn't taste great, but it's certainly not as gross as rotten cows milk. It's just not sweet like it usually is and it has a little bit of a funny aftertaste to it. I can't describe it. Not "rancid" but not quite right either.

It's entirely possible that my baby was just being fussy and stubborn. She does that sometimes, but now I'm paranoid.

Couldn't it just be that I ate something different that made my milk taste different? Wouldn't it be more obvious if it was spoiled? Why would it go bad that fast? How do you decide if your milk is okay or not?

 

[SaraLe6]

If it was true spoiled milk, you would KNOW. You would smell it and you would DEFINITELY taste it. Spoiled breastmilk is just as bad as spoiled cow's milk (if you really want to know, empty the pumped milk out of a container into a bottle or other container, and leave the empty container with the residual drops on the sides and bottom of the container without washing or rinsing out on the counter for a couple days, then smell it. uke)

Sounds like maybe you have an excess lipase issue? If you milk smells/tastes fine freshly pumped but has a soapy, metallic, musty or other "off" odor/taste after being in the fridge or freezer for a few days, that would point to a lipase issue. It's not harmful unless baby continually refuses the bottles. The only way to get around it is to scald your milk after pumping before putting in the fridge or freezer. You can't get the taste/smell out of milk that has already changed but you can dilute it with fresh or scalded milk so that baby will take it.

 

[MountainMamaGC]

It could be the lipase breaking it down. All breast milk has lipase and it breaks the fats down making it taste off. Not spoiled but off. I had too much lipase and my milk would go funny after a day but maybe if you have normal lipase it takes a few days.