https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:38:32 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/refusing-pumped-milk-will-nurse-amp-drink-formula%e2%80%a6#post-97895 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:35:04 +0000 Mrs. Bee 97895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsbells: most people refrigerate their milk and feed their babies refrigerated milk (warmed of course). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/refusing-pumped-milk-will-nurse-amp-drink-formula%e2%80%a6#post-97865 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:31:27 +0000 Mrsbells 97865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: so don't most people immediately freeze their milk? Or do some people store it in the fridge first? [sorry to thread jack] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/refusing-pumped-milk-will-nurse-amp-drink-formula%e2%80%a6#post-97825 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:10:31 +0000 theknest 97825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsbee - yes he has. Its really bizarre. We thought he might be teething or had an ear infection because he wasn't drinking his bottles very good at daycare - then we tried formula and he chugged it down. </p> <p>@msmini - no I haven't done a whole lot of comparison smelling (that's quite the phrase) we will try that tonight...</p> <p>I'm going to try some older thawed milk tonight and see if he'll drink that, as well. Crazy little boy. I appreciate the help. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/refusing-pumped-milk-will-nurse-amp-drink-formula%e2%80%a6#post-97815 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:37:25 +0000 Mrs. Bee 97815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i just learned this from a comment on a recent post, but if you immediately freeze milk after you pump it you can avoid the lipase effect. but your lo has been drinking pumped breastmilk all this time ok? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/refusing-pumped-milk-will-nurse-amp-drink-formula%e2%80%a6#post-97810 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:16:09 +0000 MsMini 97810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you smelled the breast milk to see if it smells different once you store it vs when you pump it? Also give it a smell after you mix it with formula. The excess lipase can come into effect just from fridge storage, my good friend's milk would go off within hours of her pumping it, unless she immediately scalded it before storage. I have also encountered through NICU milk that goes off when you add formula to it, something about the interaction between the milk and formula causes it to go off and smell soapy. We never ended up figuring out why this Mom's milk went so off when we added formula to it (we needed to add calories for her baby so we were adding formula powder to the milk). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/refusing-pumped-milk-will-nurse-amp-drink-formula%e2%80%a6#post-97807 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:06:47 +0000 theknest 97807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 6 month old has recently decided to not drink expressed breast milk from the bottle, only formula. He will however nurse okay in the evenings. I work, so exclusively breastfeeding is not an option. I’m not sure what to do. </p> <p>Just some info, the milk he’s refusing hasn’t been stored in the freezer so I don’t think it’s a lipase issue...? It is safely stored/refrigerated. We’ve been giving him one bottle of formula/day for the past couple of months b/c I couldn’t keep up with his demand. We’ve tried 50/50 breast milk/formula but he isn’t a fan of that combination…so I guess we will try 20/80…</p> <p>Any tips/suggestions? </p>