Monday, February 26, 2007

To freeze or to feed?

Is anyone still out there and reading? Hey... if you are out there and you have ever breast fed I need some advice.

I just started work today and so I'm pumping. Now... tomorrow when I take milk to daycare should I take the stuff in the freezer that I pumped earlier and freeze what I pumped today or take the stuff from today to daycare tomorrow and leave the stuff in the freezer?

Does it matter?

2 comments:

Erin said...

Heather, it depends on how much you have frozen. Every Monday, I would send P with frozen milk and freeze what I pumped that day. That way I could rotate my freezer stash and it didn't go bad. In a normal refrigerator-freezer, breastmilk is good for up to 3 months; it can be good 6+ months in a chest freezer. So you want to rotate your "stock" as often as you need to. Losing that liquid gold to expiration is very, very sad!

Good luck!

Lynanne said...

Ditto what Erin said.

Btw, how is/was your first day back?