Going on a hen do abroad - freezing breast milk. Please help
Can someone please explain in the most basic steps, how do I freeze my breast milk and then give it to my baby?
E.g. what do I freeze it in? The breast milk bags? Then when we finally want to give him some of the frozen milk - do I have to get it out early and leave it in the fridge to de-frost? Or do you just get it out of the freezer and warm it straight up to give?
Never done this before or pumped before so just want to be prepared 🙏🏼
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Just to say a good idea would be to do a test before you go of freezing/defrosting some of your milk for baby. A lot of women have high lipase which causes the milk to taste metallicy or soapy so baby refuses. Good to know before you go if so as there are ways around it.
Another tip, make sure to write on the bag how much milk is in it. Once the bags are frozen it can be really hard to tell. I always used to defrost milk by dunking the bag into a jug of hot water which only took a few minutes.
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Put in breast milk bags, lay flat in freezer. When you want it, the ideal is to put in fridge 24 hours before but all we do is get it out of freezer when we need it and submerge in warm water until it’s defrosted and become warm! My baby takes it like fridge milk so no issues with it! X