I am cycling through some older frozen breastmilk. I'm wondering if once I thaw it I can combine it with recently pumped refrigerated breastmilk. Ie, if I defrost 3 oz of frozen milk, can I combine 1 oz of it with 2 oz of refrigerated milk?
I want to make sure that LO is getting enough hindmilk and more recent milk with the nutritional value that he currently needs.
grapefruit / 4554 posts
I have been doing that- mixing thawed and refrigerated milk to make a full bottle and LO doesn't seem to mind. I'm interested to hear about others response as well.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
I've been doing that. Typically Friday's milk gets frozen then defrosted Sunday evening for Monday. And if for some reason I pumped over the weekend my mom just mixes any leftover frozen with the new stuff. As long as they're at the same temp I think you're fine.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@regberadaisy: That's what I was thinking - same temp = OK.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
that's exactly what i do to cycle through my frozen milk but to make sure olive is getting nutritionally appropriate current milk.
coconut / 8299 posts
I also used the same temp rule. If I had a bottle in the fridge, I would defrost the frozen milk in the fridge until they're both fridge-temp. And then mix!
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
Yup and I always use the shortest use date, so typically within 24 hours of defrosting even if the freshly pumped milk would be good for a week in the fridge.
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