feeding LO pumped milk
pawcall
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I will be returning to work fulltime with my son is 6 weeks old. I really REALLY want to keep him on breastmilk only, so i'm going to have to be a crazy pumping fool at work all day.
My company seems to be supportive of this (I feel pretty lucky) so I'm trying to think through logistics. My assumption is that I will get a mini fridge for my office and put the pumped milk from the day in there. I'll bring it home at night, leaving the next day's milk in the fridge and freezing any extra that I'm able to produce.
Here's my question - do I actually need a bottle warmer so that my husband can feed our son my refrigerated breastmilk? I've always heard that bottle warmers were a complete waste, but what's the alternative? Is it okay to feed the baby cold milk? Or is it good enough to thaw frozen milk overnight in the fridge, and warm up the refrigerated milk in a cup of hot water?
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
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Re: feeding LO pumped milk
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
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~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
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Yes. And FWIW, our son took cold bottles straight from the fridge alongside room temp ones.
no you don't have to warm bottles but babies do like their milk warm i freeze my milk in lansinol breast milk bags i lay them flat in the break room freezer and take them home in a stack so that they keep each other cool my husband(ish) tosses one in the bathroom sink full of warm/hot water it takes maybe two minuets or less for the milk to become warm he throws it in a tommy tippy bottle and feeds her throughout the night (i work night shift) breastmilk lasts
10 hours at room temp
8 days in the fridge
2 weeks in a mini fridge freezer
3-4 months in a freezer attached to your refrigerator and
6months+ in a deep freezer
i see that your still pregnant i would recommend getting a good double electric pump (mine is the Madela PISA backpack i have used it for both my children) pump pump pump while on maternity leave fill your freezer pump after nursing at least 4 times a day and when you first wake in the morning separate the milk into bags of 1 2 and 3 ounces during the first month your body will give you as much as you ask of it until you stop asking and then it wont ever over produce like that again
Goodluck
~Kaitlyn
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
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I don't put my milk in a fridge.. I just use the ice pack that comes with my Medela freestyle. All your logistics sounds great... no problem there.
You don't actually NEED a bottle warmer. I have one and happy to use it. I felt that I was wasting too much water waiting for it to get hot enough to put the milk in a bowl of hot water to warm up. The warmer is quick and easy for us. With that said we don't even warm the milk to very warm. Just enough to take most of the chill off and make it room temperature pretty much (used to be warmer when he was younger but I figure I won't be warming his milk when he is 1 yrs old so we are starting the process of cooler milk now).
DS would take it straight from the fridge if we gave it to him that way... but the fat in the milk seperates and looks kinda funny. When you warm it up (even just a little) the fats mix/ blend back together.
As an alternative -- When we are at a friends house I ether quickly boil some water or warm a bowl of water in the microwave. Then once it's hot I use that to warm the milk. I find it takes a little longer so I just use the warmer that was gifted to me.