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Where can I store breast milk?
Breast milk can be kept in the refrigerator only.

How long and at what temperature can I store breast milk?

• Storage time at room temperature is 8-12 h.
• Storage time in the refrigerator is 8-10 days.
• Storage time in a freezer compartment is up to 6 months.

Store milk in the freezer – is it harmful?
There is no definite opinion on the problem among pediatricians and breastfeeding professionals. Anyways, frozen breast milk is still better than a formula. But you’d better freeze breast milk only as a last resort.

How to store breast milk, if there is no refrigerator?
Use special refrigerator bags with freezers or ordinary thermoses. When you store breast milk in a thermos, fill it with ice, then pour the ice out and pour the pumped milk in. It is desirable to prepare the ice beforehand out of the boiled or distilled water.

How much breast milk can I freeze?
You’d better store the breast milk in small portions (100-120 ml) so as not to waste any.

In its value the breastmilk can be compared only with gold and perhaps even the gold is not as valuable as mother’s breastmilk. That is why it is no wonder that women feel so tender feelings to it.

For example, I know about a lady who has found lots of bottles with unused breastmilk in her frieze. They have been storing there for more than a year and a lady felt very sorry to throw them away. She could not do it for a rather long period but still the time has come.

Of course, how can a lady feel easy to throw a product away which is so important for children’s life, which is so demanded by lots of mothers who are lack of it? Moreover, these bottles are the part of a mother, as the breastmilk was created by lady’s organism and it is so much associated with the time of her baby being an infant. Even if a baby is already two years old, he is still older now than he has been before.