Breastfeeding

EPers

Describe your pumping/bottle making routine.  I have been pumping and putting the milk in the fridge in the bottles I pump into and then once a day I make her bottles and store them in the fridge so I can just pop them in the warmer when shes hungry, but it occurred to me that maybe I should try to give her more just pumped milk.
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Re: EPers

  • Freshly expressed BM is good at room temp for about 8 hours or so. Here is a link on the storage guidelines.

    https://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/milkstorage.html

    In the beginning I would pump and leave the BM in a bottle at room temp for DS to eat. If I knew he wouldn't eat it within the timeframe, I put it into a Lansinoh storage bag and it went into the fridge. If it gets to be past 3-4 days in the fridge, I move it into our freezer downstairs.

    Usually on the days I am home with DS, he gets freshly pumped milk all day. I have heard that milk in the fridge and freshly expressed milk are very similiar. The only difference you get into with milk storage is when it's frozen.

    I hope my ramblings have made some sense.

    DS #1 born January 2010. DS #2 due June 2014.

  • I pump and put into 5 oz portions in the fridge, then warm it up when he needs it.  I don't have a huge supply, so I never have more than 3-4 bottles tops in the fridge.  I keep them in a line at the edge of the fridge.  I put freshly pumped in the back and grab from the front for feedings.

    If I'm pumping and I know he's due to eat in the next little bit, I'll leave that bottle out and use it instead...but mostly he gets milk warmed from the fridge.

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  • If I'm home he gets what I just pumped but what I bring home from work goes to the fridge for the next day. First pump each morning he gets then. When he was eating more & I was pumping more I had labels for every day of the week and put it behind that so I new when it needed to be frozen by b/c I was getting about 40 oz a day. If he doesn't eat it within a day or 2 I freeze it.
  • When I'm home, I pump every 4 hours during the day, so I make 2 bottles for DD to eat (every 2-3 hours) and the rest goes in the fridge as back up. I always give fresh milk when I can.

     We found that even though the milk is ok at room temp for 8 hours, DD doesn't much like it after it's been out for 6 hours so sometimes at night if we know it will be a while we'll pre make a bottle and put it in the fridge. 

  • I always stay two bottles ahead of her, and any excess goes towards my freezer stash.  That way, the longest the bottle is in the fridge is 4 hours, tops. We don't have central air in my house, so my "room temperature" can be as hot as 80 degrees at times.
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  • Almost all of DD's bottles are given at room temperature. She gets one frozen bm bottle that I warm up. I let the milk sit at room temperature between pumps (max 6 hours) and once I pump again I put the previous pump's milk in the storage bag, put it in the fridge, and then put all the bags from the same day in the freezer the next day.
  • I forgot...I pump into a 5 oz bottle and an 8 oz bottle. DD eats between 4 and 5 oz but I always make her bottles 4 oz. So if I pump more in the 5 oz bottle I just move it to the 8 oz bottle and if I need more because DD is still hungry I just pour another oz into the 5 oz bottle. I hope that makes sense.
  • I pump more than DD eats in one day in just my morning session  I pump into my collection bottles and then I pour a certain amount into glass mason jars and store those in the fridge.  Then the rest of the milk goes into freezer bags and into the freezer.  I have 3 glass jars that hold about 32oz each.  I usually fill one jar a day.  A little more than 3 days worth is in the fridge at all times.  I can't store the milk in bottles because I have way too much milk for the number of bottles that I have.  I do however pour milk out of the glass jars into feeding bottles each night so the next days bottles are ready to go.
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