WAY too much milk in freezer?

KMAXON

So I've been pumping since LO was born.    I pump at work and in the early morning and pump about 17 oz/day.    She takes about 10 0z a day at daycare, so I have been gradually adding and adding to my freezer collection.  I use oldest milk to send to daycare and save newer so nothing gets expired.    I currently have, no exaggerating, a chest freezer almost full of breastmilk.    I plan on weaning around a year and continuing to nurse/send BM to daycare to about a year.   So I'm only nursing 4 more months.  I don't think I can ever use all of this milk and I'm not really interested in selling it (as some have suggested).  WWYD? 

desdemona39

Donate it! There are many mamas who would love to take that milk off your hands. If you don't want to go through a milk bank and go through that whole screening process, you can go through human milk for human babies on facebook and connect with a local mom.

vigurl

desdemona39:

Donate it! There are many mamas who would love to take that milk off your hands. If you don't want to go through a milk bank and go through that whole screening process, you can go through human milk for human babies on facebook and connect with a local mom.

ditto!  I have 2 freezers full.  when I can't accommodate any more then I donate to human milk for babies 

mrschristinamb

You can also use it as a snack for teething! D loves it when I put frozen formula... well really frozen anything in those mesh feeders. I should warn you though its super messy!  

rboisvert

Please please please donate it.  I highly recomed doing a peer to peer donation through eats on feets or human milk for human babies.  Both are found on facebook and the organizations are mearly a way for moms to meet moms for peer to peer donation.  We are on the recieving end of an ongoing milk donation it's the only way I can provide my daughter with enough bm while I'm at work since I can't pump enough when I'm at work.  Our donor has been such a blessing  to us.  Both groups have detailed information on peer donation.

rjveldman

I would recommend calling up your local hospital NICU rather than selling it or trying to find someone on Facebook. There are so many creeps out there - most of the people I ran into when I was looking to sell were old creepy men.

skio

Ditto pp, donate it. I donated over 400oz a couple months ago. It was lovely having my freezer back.

je2161

I have amassed over a hundred ounces of breastmilk in the freezer. I use breastmilk to thin out her purees and that takes care of some of the excess milk. The rest will be used on rotation as I will keep pumping to keep things going.

Vespah

I went thought the screening process to donate milk to the local children's hospital for the NICU babies. The screening really wasn't a big deal. Just 5 minutes worth of questions, and a blood test.

Birdies08

I've donated through Human Milk 4 Human Babies. It turns out the lady is practically my neighbor! I wish I had more milk to give her and I would if I were just better about pumping. Sigh. Anyway, it was a great experience.