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  • "Reusing" expressed milk?

    06-29-2009 9:22 PM Reply
    If I pump and refrigerate, then reheat later to feed my daughter - and she doesn't consume all of the reheated bottle, can I put the leftovers back in the fridge and feed to her at the next feeding? I've read that this refrigerated BM can be reheated - but how many times? I am a working mom, so most of my BM is refrigerated before my daughter eats. She is between 4 and 5 oz. per feeding (she doesn't always take 5 oz). It breaks my heart to think that I'd have to dump out an ounce or more that she didn't finish.
       
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    07-01-2009 12:19 PM Reply
    My understanding on this from reading and speaking with an LC is this: once you heat the milk, if your baby doesn't consume all of it at that time, you should get rid of it, don't put it back in the fridge to reheat it to feed it to her later. So you should only heat it once. I know the feeling thinking about having to dump it when it is SO hard to keep up the supply for her to have enough! My only suggestion, as much of a pain as this will be, is if she takes between 4 & 5 ounces at a feeding, only heat up 4 oz., and if she still seems hungry, to heat up another ounce, that way if she doesn't want more than 4 oz you aren't wasting a whole ounce. I hope this helps!
       
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