Breast Milk Blunder

CherSomething · July 2014

I leave the house for one hour and this is what happens:

Last night, my boyfriend tried giving baby a bottle of refrigerated breast milk. He heated it up and tried feeding her. She wasn't interested. Short time later, I had her and since he had heated it up, I tried giving it to her. She didn't want it, she wanted the breast, so that's what I gave her, and placed the bottle by the rocking chair we were in. Forgot about it since I breastfed her and didn't bring it to the kitchen and dump it out. We didn't return to the chair at all the next day (today). Not something I would normally do (leave food out).

So I leave this afternoon for an errand and boyfriend calls me, but I missed the call. I come home and he tells me what he called for--He wanted to know if that bottle of milk by the rocking chair was ok to give the baby. He figured it was from today (still not ok, man!) since like I said--I don't normally leave things like that out.

He did. He gave her the old milk from last night. I'm freaking out. We called the pediatrician but summer hours--she's not in on Tuesdays and we're not paging her for this.

We're going to have a sick baby, aren't we?

ETA: I googled for the answer, too, and apparently no one else has done this before. Where's our "Parents of the Year" award?

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tbmadeamistake · July 2014

You should be fine. Generally, if the milk has spoiled, baby won't eat it. Keep an eye on her, but she should be OK.

ElTrain5 · July 2014

I would imagine it's like anything else you take out of the fridge, it's got rules about when to consume it because it "could" have dangerous bacteria that could reproduce and cause problems. But that doesn't mean it "will" have anything harmful in it. I would try not to worry. *this is just my best guess.

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