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BrendaK
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***planningbug***
BrendaK
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Hi. I've missed you. :-)
I saw that you're planning on freezing in 4oz bags.
Since you also mentioned that Michael is going to be the one feeding her, I'd seriously consider doing some 1oz and 2oz bags as well (or at least 2oz).
Paige would sometimes eat 4oz and be a little bit hungry, but there's no way she could have finished another 4oz. It worked really well for us to have some 1oz and 2oz bags on hand.
If you have to dump extra milk, you'll come to find out that dumping milk down the drain literally feels like someone is stealing the food out of your baby's mouth and will make you cry. We work so hard to get that milk and to see our efforts go to waste can be heartbreaking. It's like liquid gold. Maybe that's just me speaking though. :-)
I think it's harder if you send little ones to daycare because most of them either have to use what you send, or dump it... but if it's Michael feeding her at home, having some smaller amounts on hand will be nice in case Mari needs a little extra - it's on-hand and easy to thaw with little risk of waste.
This post needs one more smiley face. :-)
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Re: ***planningbug***
Why thank you :-)
I have a bunch of 1 and 2 oz bags already frozen, because we only recently started giving her a bottle, and I didn't want to waste any as we were figuring out how much she eats (and I totally hear you on the pain of waste--I nearly had a fit last week when my hand jittered while pouring and I lost a few drops!). Right now, her "snacks" are about 2 oz, and she drains each boob twice at "meals" or eats 3.5-4.5 oz if she gets a bottle for a meal, but I wasn't sure whether that was going to keep going up or stay roughly the same.
She's such a pain about eating, and so DEMANDING when she wants to eat. Diapers, burps, even "hey, I got stuck laying on my arm and this is really uncomfortable" all get work-up-to-it cries before a full fledged fit. But hunger? SCREAMS about 15 seconds after the first time she licks and sticks out her tongue. So I was trying to think of a way that Michael could avoid having to heat up several bottles by figuring out how much she might be taking and then he'd only have to heat it up once. Does that make sense?
Oh! And a question--how did you guys heat up stored milk?
Mother's Day, 2011
I knew you were a smarty pants and probably already doing it. :-)
We thawed in the fridge (took out what we needed the night before), and then warmed it up in a bowl of hot water, under running hot water. I think I read somewhere to use warm water, not hot, but DH was always in a big hurry.