Working Moms
Do you rotate your freezer stash?
I have a decent freezer stash of bmilk from my maternity leave, but am pumping enough at work now for DS at daycare. Shoudl i be putting some of my fresh milk in the freezer and thawing out some of the freezer stash periodically? What do you do?
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Re: Do you rotate your freezer stash?
I freeze everything I pump on Friday, pump just in the mornings over the weekend, then bring 2 fresh and 2 thawed bottles to daycare on Monday. She usually takes 3 bottles and I keep an extra, but if she only takes 2, I can use both of the fresh ones the next day. I only started thawing recently, as the freezer bags got closer to 3 months old.
I only rotated out when freezer stash approached the 3 month mark. I would just send one or two bottles with frozen, so DD would have at least one fresh bottle a day. When the stash wasn't that old I sent all fresh.
But I was traveling every month or two for work, so my freezer stash was mostly used while I was out of town.
Whatever I pump on Fri, Sat and Sun gets frozen. On Mondays, I thaw the oldest milk from the stash and send that with DD to daycare. It seems to be working.
Yes!
I had 200oz when I went back to work. I started rotating it out when it was approaching 3 months. I also am adding a little each week to it (I'm close to 250oz now).
My rotation is going to be pretty constant since I have so many ounces and I'm continually replenishing it. DD only gets 2-3 bottles at daycare so not much. With rotating out my freezer stash I have to do about 1 or 2 bottles of frozen. I usually have to add a little fresh in to get to the exact amount she needs, but she's been getting 1-2 bottles of frozen milk a day at daycare for the last month or so. Its the only way I can keep up with not letting my freezer stash expire!