Home Forums Induced Lactation aka Adoptive Breastfeeding Medical Interventions to Induce Lactation/Increase Milk Supply A thought about saving milk

I hate to be a pain but you ladies have been so AWESOME with responses and help. I have started saving my milk as I have been getting about an ounce a day. After two days I will bag the two ounces and freeze it. I have been pumping into the bottles and then emptying both bottles into the one in the refrigerator. Is it possible/ok to pump into the bottles, then cap and refrigerate them and the take them from the refrigerator and keep pumping into them instead of emptying into one? It seems as though I lose some milk when transfering because it sticks to the bottle or whatever. You just can't get every drop and I HATE losing ANY!

I would store in one bottle and pump into others, just because I would want the previously pumped milk to stay cold in the fridge. You can store the bottles you are pumping into in the fridge and not rinse them every time (like at the end of 1 or 2 days).

Jennifer

I know that technically this probably isn't the right thing to do but I do what you do....pump into the bottles, put them in the fridge, and then pump back into the same bottles. I figure the amount of milk I am getting is so small (only 1 1/2 oz per day right now) that it will cool very quickly in the refrigerator that bacteria won't have time to grow. I also figure if it's ok to leave fresh milk out for 10 hours it shouldn't be a big deal, as long as you're only pumping into the same bottles for a single day. I just make sure I put it back in right after pumping.

If you have the Medela breast pump, they sell storage bags that you pump right into! The bags come with an attachment that you attach the bag right to your breast pump.