EBM questions

I got some of those trays that ya freeze their food in (which have come in super handy now ) and froze it in that, they are 25ml cubes (ovals really) and would just get out and defrost what i thought he would drink at a feed, I defrosted it in a bottle in the fridge and heated it in a glass jug of boiled water hope this helps

I freeze in glad bags, when he was really little though I used the sterile medela ones.

Depends what I express out but I don't put more than 150ml in one bag as I hate to waste it. I have some smaller lots in ice cube trays so that if he drains the 150ml Dh can just defrost a cube or two. I think each cube holds about 30-40ml

Thaw it by putting it in the fridge or if needed in a hurry then stand in warm water, stand it in warm water to heat as well, but I think he has normally transferred it to a bottle by then (I never do the EBM feeds).

Definitely don't microwave EBM as it kills off good stuff in it.....that was very scientific of me wasn't it..lol

Can someone show me a link to these ice cube trays?? I am planning on expressing as well as bfing, and this sounds like what I need to do...thank you!!

1. What do you freeze your EBM in? Swisspers breast milk storage bags that you can buy from Countdown. A little pricey at around $11 for 20 but convenient.

2. What quantity do you freeze in one lot? Very early on, I was putting away 70ml lots. I figured that Madison would need at least 70ml at one feed and if she wanted more, I wasn't wasting too much if she didn't drink another full 70ml. Later on, I was putting 120ml away and she wasn't drinking all of that in one go. We were mostly using the expressed stuff to top her up with on those marathon feeding sessions where she just never seemed to be satisfied! We've run out of our freezer stash and I don't express any more.

3. How do you thaw it out? We thawed it in an inch of water in the sink. It doesn't take long to thaw so we'd thaw just one bag at a time.

4. How do you heat it up? In a jug of hot water.

These are what I use, when he was newborn before freezing the EBM i would sterilise them 1st aswell

http://www.kiwibaby.co.nz/afawcs0122065/SUBID=11/ID=591/SID=139503299/productdetails.html

clever! we ended up buying more cubes as we had more baby food than trays, I never thought to take them out and put them into something else!

Mine is sitting unused at the moment and might have to become soup cos my little guy has decided spoons aren't his thing, so we are doing all finger foods instead. Is so bizaar that he will open his mouth and quite happily try to eat anything but put it on a spoon and nope, even if it's the same food

I pretty much second most things said here, i too didi the ice cube thing, ours held 10 mls so was good, i'd just take it out on the morning i needed it, chuck as many cubes in as i needed (ie, 50mls, = 5 cubes) into the actual sterilised bottle and pop it in the fridge to defrost.     

The main thing to remember is you should not be adding warm milk to already cold milk,... ie pop it in ice cube trays as you go, don't chuck it all into one container adding throughout the day... it's effectively heating and cooling the milk all the time as expressed milk is body temp which can be kinda warmish.

we always did the bags thing, i'd do a freezer bag for 1 weeks worth of milk cubes, then start a new one, each one dated so i knew which ones to use first.   i also didi that with the baby food, had separate cubes of each vege and some of cooked pureed meat and i could just pop her dinner together by choosing which cubes i wanted, placing them in her bowl and standing the bowl in boiling water in the sink for a few mins. i did then be a bit naughty and nuke it in the microwave... but never nuked breastmilk ever.