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put formula/breastmilk back in fridge after warming?

ESTH2000ESTH2000 member
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I'm at work and can't remember the instructions. I want to make sure DH is doing it right.

If baby doesn't finish or didn't want the bottle after we warmed it..can we put it back in the fridge. Something tells me we can't with formula but how about BM???

tia

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  • JGirl2005JGirl2005 member
    I don't reheat formula, but I think you can do that w/BM. 
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  • JGirl2005JGirl2005 member

    https://www.best-breastpumps.com/Collecting_Breastmilk.htm

    but doesn't talk about heating and then re-storing...

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  • ela81ela81
    If the baby has drank from the bottle then you only have an hour to use it (formula). I warm it then put it back all the time, like when she falls asleep (before she drinks out of it).
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  • blondie75blondie75 member
    Here's info from kellymom.  www.kellymom.com/bf/pumping/reusing-expressedmilk.html  I'm surprised, I would have said no.
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  • LucyPevensieLucyPevensie member
    It's fine to re-refrigerate and offer breastmilk one more time - it has natural anti-bacterial properties that make this OK (but if it's not finished at that second feeding you need to toss what's left.)  Formula - you have to toss whatever is left after one feeding. 
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  • LucyPevensieLucyPevensie member
    One more thing - if you've mixed formula and bm - you have to toss.  That's why it's better to feed them separately if you supplement (bm in one bottle, formula in another) - that way you don't waste bm.  I do this at night - I warm up a 6 oz bottle of bm - and a 3 or 4 ounce bottle of formula.  When he finishes the bm bottle - I pop the formula bottle in his mouth (if he wants more food) without missing a beat.  But if he were to not finish the bm bottle - I could save what's left and give it to him at the next feeding.
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  • DavezWifeDavezWife member

    To each their own, but I mixed, heated (in the microwave! gasp!) , chilled and reheated. She lived.  Of course I never really made it that warm, just 15 secs to take the chill off, but I was NOT wasting that liquid gold.

    I read the enzymes from the spit will start to break things down, but I think that might have been a nest myth or something?? I dunno. But that's what I did.

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  • ESTH2000ESTH2000 member
    thanks ladies!
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