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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).

@Mrsbells: most people refrigerate their milk and feed their babies refrigerated milk (warmed of course).