Storing Pump in Fridge at Work?

Toni79 · October 2012

Ok . . . I read somewhere that if you are pumping at work, you can store your pump in the fridge betweem pump sessions and then wash it when you get home. It even said to leave the bottles attached to the flanges. But then you'd be pumping warm milk into cold milk. And I thought the rule was add warm-to-warm and cold-to-cold?

So what are you actually storing in the fridge at work between sessions? And how are you storing it? Do you have to wash or rinse it between sessions?

I'm assuming the two flanges with the valves and diaphrams attached? Then combine bottles when you get home, etc?

singingirl96 · October 2012

I take one set of flanges and 4 bottles to work every day.

Flanges - I rinse them in between uses, dry them with paper towel and set them on my desk in a ziplock bag. The fridge tends to get packed and I rather not have cold flanges on my tatas.

Bottles - I start out with two. After I'm done, I combine both milks in one bottle and rinse out the other bottle. Next time I pump, I use the bottle I rinsed last time and a clean one. After I'm done, I combine them into one bottle and rinse the other... etc... you get the idea. Because I bring 4 bottles, I get to pump 3 times. I would need 5 bottles for 4 times... etc.

Filled Bottles - I keep them in the cooler that came with my pump on my desk. It has 3 ice packs in it, and I put them in the freezer overnight everynight.

So, I don't use the office fridge at all. I prefer it that way.

This same cooler is how I transport the bottles from my house to DC every morning.

Krystal6826 · October 2012

I start off the day with all clean parts, pump into two bottles. Combine those 2 bottles and put a lid on it. This bottle stays just like this until I get home. I connect the one "dirty" bottle and one more clean bottle to the pump parts and store everything in a cooler with an ice pack. For the next pumping session, I pump into one previous used (without milk currently) bottle and one clean bottle. Everything gets washed at night.

blu-eyedwife · October 2012

theresat858:

I combine my milk from my first session into one bottle. (I never pump more than 5oz at once, usually 3-4.) Then I store that bottle connected to a flange, and the other flange, in my cooler bag (no rinsing), and I put the full bottle in the cooler too.

The next session, I use the bottle from the first session and a fresh bottle. Repeat above.

If I pump a third time (depending how late I'm at work), I combine the first two bottles (both at cooler temp now) into a 8oz bottle and reuse those bottles to pump into.

I do something similar, but I also combine the milk from my second pump session into one bottle.

No rinsing between, I just connect a clean bottle to one of the used flanges after combining and both flanges, connected to bottles go into a ziplock in the fridge. The bottle of milk goes in the cooler in the fridge.

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