Scalding the milk?

KoalaBear103

I saw this suggested in a post below for a lo who refuses frozen bm. I plan to freeze my milk so that I'm able to continue nursing when I go back to work. I'd hate for all my pumped bm to be refused! Is it bad to do this milk scalding "just in case"? I'd just hate for all my milk to be wasted if she doesn't like it thawed. Tia!

jcsumm0

You only need to do this if you have excess lipase.  You can pump some milk and let it sit in your fridge for a few days (up to week) and then taste it.  If you  have excess lipase it will have a soapy taste.  Mine actually starts to develop that taste after just a few hours of being pumped. Then you need to scald it ASAP after pumping and then freeze.  But if you don't have excess lipase there is no need to scald, and you'd be killing off some of those magical breastmilk properties, not to mention giving yourself an extra step or 2 in freezing milk.

https://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/lipase-expressedmilk.html

sschwege

As pp said check to make sure you need to do this first.  If your milk does indeed have an excess of lipase you could scald it.  I would test it out with your LO first just to see if she will take it as is without scalding it, some babies don't mind the flavor and it's not harmful.  I have an excess of lipase in my milk, but it has never bothered DD and she happily drinks it even though to me it tastes like soap.  So I've never scalded it because it does take away some of the beneficial properties.    

KoalaBear103

jcsumm0:

You only need to do this if you have excess lipase.  You can pump some milk and let it sit in your fridge for a few days (up to week) and then taste it.  If you  have excess lipase it will have a soapy taste.  Mine actually starts to develop that taste after just a few hours of being pumped. Then you need to scald it ASAP after pumping and then freeze.  But if you don't have excess lipase there is no need to scald, and you'd be killing off some of those magical breastmilk properties, not to mention giving yourself an extra step or 2 in freezing milk.

https://www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/lipase-expressedmilk.html

awesome-thank you! I wasn't sure if there was a way to test this or not. I'll be doing this to test it out!

Brady77

I panicked when I first started trying to give my frozen milk and LO refused the bottle.I read about excess lipase issues, but I don't think that was it I think it just tasted different to her so as long as I mixed fresh and frozen she has been just fine.