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Help! Freezing/Thawing milk issues

markles88markles88
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DS hates the thawed BM that I pumped and stored in our deep freezer before returning to work. It does smell kinda metallic and even sometimes rancid when thawed, but from everything I have read on Kellymom.com that is normal. So....how do I get him to take the milk? I have tried scalding it then bringing it back to room temp. after thawing it (suggestion from my LC) but he still will only take an ounce of it, but will demolish a 4 oz. bottle of freshly expressed milk right after. I have about 100 oz. still frozen and I would hate to see it go to waste. Any tips ladies?
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Re: Help! Freezing/Thawing milk issues

  • QueSara74QueSara74
    He might just be a kid who only takes fresh milk. You can use the frozen milk for mixing in his food later on, maybe.
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  • socalduosocalduo

    My DD would refuse thawed milk if I thawed it using hot water.  For some reason if I used hot water to thaw the fat portion of my milk would turn yellow versus the normal white/creamy color.  I found that if I thawed it with cool water, my milk wouldn't turn yellow and my DD would take the milk.  If you're thawing your milk using hot water, maybe, try thawing it with cool water or thaw it overnight and then reheat it with warm water.  That worked for me.  BTW, my milk also smells rancid/metalic most of the time so I thought it was bad too. 

    Otherwise, maybe you could mix some of your thawed milk with fresh and see if your DS will take that.

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  • maramarriemaramarrie

    imageQueSara74:
    He might just be a kid who only takes fresh milk. You can use the frozen milk for mixing in his food later on, maybe.

    this is what I was thinking. Save it for cereal later.

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  • mjordan30mjordan30

    Same thing happened to me. I tasted it one time and it was horrible, very metallic tasting. I couldn't expect him to drink it. I mixed it with fresh pumped milk and even tried mixing it with ceral, he wouldn't take it that way either. I ended up having to throw away about 150 bags of milk. I actually had to have my husband do it for me because it was too hard for me. I cried so hard, but it was literally nasty, so I couldn't expect him to eat it. It is due to an excess of the enzyme lipase which breaks down the milk fat. 

    The milk banks wouldn't take it either.

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