27/09/2021
Tips To Prevent Expressed/Pumped Breast Milk From Spoiling
🍼 Wash your hands and breasts with clean water and soap before pumping or expressing breast milk.
🍼 Adequately clean and sanitize your breast pump and accessories, including the storage containers after every use. Get JOLA BreastMilk Storage Cups for quality experience.
🍼 Discard the breast pump and its accessories if you notice a mold in their tubing or the equipment looks worn out. Better still, get JOLA breast pump for quality experience.
🍼 Tightly close the storage bottle or container’s lid so that the milk is safe from chemical oxidation and absorption of odor from other veggies and fruit.
🍼 Thaw breast milk in order of storage, meaning thaw oldest breast milk first. Don’t refreeze thawed breast milk.
🍼 Check stored breast milk for spoilage before feeding it to the baby. You may do so by checking the taste, color, and consistency of the breast milk.
🍼 Don’t freeze the refrigerated milk to extend its storage time. You should keep the milk in the refrigerator immediately after pumping. The milk can stay in the refrigerator at 40°F (4°C) for four to six days. However, do not move the bottle to the freezer after six days to extend its storage life. When frozen immediately after pumping, the milk should preferably be consumed within two weeks.
🍼 Never store breast milk in the door of the refrigerator. Place the milk container at the back of the refrigerator where the temperature is coldest and stable since it is unaffected by the door’s opening and closing.
🍼 Place the storage container in an insulated cooler bag or cool towel for a few minutes if you cannot immediately place it in the refrigerator. Freshly expressed or pumped breast milk can stay consumable at 60 to 85°F (16 to 29°C) for up to four hours. Remember, the longer the milk stays outside, the higher the chances of it going rancid.
🍼 Keep the breast milk away from direct sunlight, heat, and air until you store it in the refrigerator or freezer.
🍼 Avoid untreated tap water use for cleaning of breast milk storage accessories to prevent milk’s chemical oxidation during storage. You may also restrict supplements rich in unsaturated fats, such as fish oil tablets, if your breast milk is sensitive to oxidation and goes rancid easily.
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