Hellobee Boards

Thank you for reminding me to do this! I'm curious to see what others are choosing to do. I had the same issue with old, frozen milk for my first girl.

I didn’t have much of a stash before going back to work. Maybe 30 oz? I would do what @lilyofthewest: did and freeze Friday’s milk. Although he went through a bottle refusal stage so I was able to freeze a little but more during that time. If I noticed some milk was nearing 1 month old I would use frozen milk for a few days and just freeze what I pumped.

I made sure to use the last out. I pumped more then my kids drank in a day so I needed to stay on top of rotating a very large freezer stash. I would freeze milk flat and then up it into two plastic trays that fit the milk storage bags standing up. One side would be fresh milk and the other would be the older milk. I also found it easy to store groupings of the bags in freezer bags because I had more than would fit in my containers. I would store 4oz per bag because I found it much easier to deal with thawing single servings and LO2 liked 4oz at a time (LO1 drank more).

I had a much larger freezer stash with my first than I do now with my second. I am basically doing the same thing though, each day I thaw out milk and the bottles are both fresh and thawed (all refrigerated and cold before mixing). I found this worked for us since I hope to use my stash for the weaning phase and keep the baby on breast milk longer without pumping. The milk is usually always less than 6 weeks old in the freezer.