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- From: gregory@csri.toronto.edu (Kate Gregory)
- Subject: Frozen milk (was Re: nipple confusion (just a short story)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.172723.6128@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Reply-To: xtkmg@trentu.ca
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- References: <1jg6ncINNa8q@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:27:24 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- [news problems at Trent mean I have to be my other self for a while;
- but please send mail to the real me --kmg]
-
- In article <1jg6ncINNa8q@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu (Tracy Larrabee) writes:
- >
- > [I deleted the very sensible part about mild nipple confusion
- >which caused painful nursing but not refusal, and how Tracy
- >fixed it -kmg]
- >
- >Now that I'm posting, I have another question: should I throw out the
- >breast milk in glass bottles I brought home from the hospital and have
- >in the freezer? A lot of it is colostrum, and I think he needs more
- >fat now. It is also in glass bottles, which my doctor says will cause
- >it to lose more nutrients than plastic storage. I don't think I
- >really need it because I have plenty more frozen in little bags. We
- >have yet to defrost any yet (we always give Alec what I pumped last
- >feeding-- it seems better to give him fresh if we can).
- >
- First, it *is* much better to give fresh. Fresh has the antibodies
- and frozen does not. Second, even frozen doesn't last forever;
- six months in a big chest freezer; less if it sat in the fridge
- for a while before you decided to freeze it. Since you have lots
- and lots, you can afford to get rid of the glass-bottle stuff:
- fat and perhaps protein stick to the glass. (In the fridge,
- you might also worry that antibodies are sticking to the glass, but
- since they don't survive freezing that's not an issue for you).
-
- I hope you've dated all those plastic bags! If not, start dating
- whatever you freeze now. It can be a real pain pumping just an
- ounce or two for cereal, and that's a good way to use up the
- frozen supplies while making the first solids taste like the
- usual liquid. But if you start solids at six months, you're
- close to the storage limit for frozen milk, so you need to
- check the dates.
-
- Kate
-