Plans for the Freezer Stash?

ChristinaD09

I know they say to use as much fresh milk as possible, but it feels like such a waste of this freezer stash I'm building to not use it (if I'm able to keep up with his needs when I go back to work).  I wonder how many nutrients you really lose with frozen milk. 

What are you going to do with the freezer stash if you wind up not needing it? 

I'm debating having my MIL (who is watching him) give him frozen milk a day a week or something (and freeze the milk from that day).  Or go for a couple of weeks at some point and use up the freezer stash, then freeze all the milk I pump during that time and use it up at the end of breastfeeding (we have it in a deep freeze and I'm planning to try to breastfeed for 12 months). 

mothling

my sister, who has BFed her 4 babies, said she uses some of the frozen milk instead of water when she starts introducing cereal....

snippet

just rotate it in.  when i went back to work after DS, i defrosted my frozen stash to send with him to daycare on mondays.  the rest of the week, i used the fresh stuff that i pumped at work the previous day.  after a while, my stash was getting out of control (i was lucky and had a good supply), so i would rotate another one or two bottles a week of frozen in with the fresh stuff for daycare.  i mixed the fresh and frozen together sometimes.

good luck with the stash, it creates great peace of mind to have that milk available! 

blckwhtyllwgirl

I plan to EBF until he's 1, but we also want to have another baby asap. I've heard that your supply decreases and it's hard to EBF when pregnant, so I'm building a big supply now and plan to rotate it in so that by the time I get pregnant I have 1-2 months worth of breastmilk in case my supply disappears.

Erika6504

With DD I would prepare one frozen bottle per day and the rest was fresh. I pumped more than enough to cover the next day so I would replace what I took out of the freezer with a bag of fresh. This allowed me to rotate the bags so nothing went bad. I plan on doing the same thing with DS. I stopped BFing DD at 9mo and I had almost 500oz in the freezer.

blissfully_caffeinated

I have collected a massive freezer stash. About 400 ounces excluding the stuff I had to dump because I pumped it when I had thrush. There is no possible way I could use all that so I donated it to a local woman who can't breast feed and whose baby has a hell of a time with formula. I'm going to keep a little milk in case of emergencies but I'm going to continue donating to her as much as possible.