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I only did sniff tests!

I mostly smell, but I've dunked my (clean) finger in occasionally to taste.

@coacheswife123: You can mix frozen milk and fresh milk but the fresh milk has to be cooled in the fridge first.

ETA: Print this out and post on your fridge! http://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/milkstorage/milkstorage/

Make sure to taste it. When mine went off in the freezer (excess lipase) it smelled fine but tasted nasty and S wouldn't drink it. I ended up having to dump the bulk of my stash down the drain

@MsMini: how did you know you had extra lipase?

@littlebug: I'm not exactly sure! Everything I read says not to do it, but doesn't say why.

Not sure if it was mentioned in the KellyMom link, but our pedi recommends that you cool freshly expressed milk in the fridge, move to the regular freezer and once frozen move to deep freezer (0 to -4 deg) instead of directly to deep freezer after cooling. Her thoughts were that a deep freezer freezes quickly and may prevent the core of the milk container from freezing properly.

@mrsmenow: This Kellymom link explains it all! http://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/milkstorage/lipase-expressedmilk/

I don't taste. If the kid will drink it, I'm sure it's fine

I had excess lipase but LO didn't seem to mind so I fed it to her anyway. I did a bunch of reading online when I started EPing and had heard of babies rejecting thawed milk so early on I froze a bag and then thawed it and it smelled soapy but LO drank it so I proceeded to freeze away. I used the Lansinoh bags and thawed them by running them under warm water, and also mixed with fresh milk. I never tasted my thawed milk.