XP Recommend your BM storage solution

jalaiaa

We just have BM randomly floating around in our freezer (not quite, but that's what it feels like). With the older boys I had these boxes that someone had given me but they only fit something like 8 bags of milk and took up a lot of space. I had heard about a box that kind of smashes the bag so that it is flat but I can't find it online. I'm not sure what it is called and google isn't being my friend. I mean how do you search for "box that smashes breast milk" Anyhow, do you know what this is called? If not, can you recommend your solution for storing large amounts of BM? Thanks. 

 

ETA: I just found it. However if you can provide reviews or other suggestions that would be good too. 

https://www.amazon.com/The-First-Years-Breastflow-Organizer/dp/B000K4YSVI

mben1119

Get a gift bag from the dollar store, cut a slit along the bottom, and stack the milk bags in there, oldest on the bottom. You can just pull out one bag at a time, so that your stock rotates as well.

staci3490

i dont breatfeed yet but plan to in november but maybe u could use one of those tackle boxes for crafts

nicole0066

I'm using an empty diaper box in our deep freeze.

angie&juan2007

The box you are talking about I made by First Years... 

https://www.amazon.com/The-First-Years-Breastflow-Organizer/dp/B000K4YSVI

I am using this this time around... 

https://www.sensiblelines.com/shop.html

(no clicky on iPad)

jbaron

I have the First Years organizer and love it. When you fill up the bottom, you can flip over the top and use that. I used it for a year with DS and am using it with DD. I have never had a problem with it and highly recommend it!

TwinCitiesGirl

angie&juan2007:

https://www.sensiblelines.com/shop.html

 OMW!  That is brilliant!  I literally have a chest freezer FULL of milk.  The milk is pretty much all that is in there and it is so full that we can barely close the top.  I have around 2000 ounces stored and have spent a fortune on bags.  THIS would have been so much cheaper and more convenient.  I'm just at the point now where I've cut down my production so I'm producing just as much as she needs and not much more, otherwise I would go ahead and purchase it anyway.  Love it!

JLG95

My solution is weird.  I'm dealing with about 80 bags in a nearly 500 oz stash.

I use Lansinoh bags filled with 6 - 7 oz and freeze them flat.  I then stack about 16 bags alternating top and bottom to form a "brick" inside a plastic grocery bag.   I tie the bag up tightly and place the brick upright in various corners of the freezer.

The bricks are huge, but I don't waste any space and all the bags are together.

BabyBear12

Springboarding off of the original question, do any of you have a separate mini freezer for your BM storage? I've been looking to buy one but they all seem kind of expensive, like over $200. I've run out of room in my freezer for frozen BM.