frozen milk question

trixiesmom8

I have frozen milk from Dec at my parents in their deep freezer. I know I have read its good from 6m to a year frozen that way. But is it still good to use? My lo will be 11 months on the 8th of Oct. I will be bringing it home into my normal freezer and using it slowly as I'm trying to cut out nursing sessions. I have milk from July/august that will be going in the deep freezer until I need it. I used up all of march, april, may, and junes because I didn't pump very often only 2x a week then. So is it safe to use and also safe to freeze in a regular freezer after being in a deep freezer for about 9 months or so?

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trixiesmom8

I never really thought of that. I hope not cause that's a lot of milk wasted:-( I know she usually doesn't drink like the last half oz when they give her a bottle and idk why, she's done it at home before too with thawed out milk. @rileyandme

captivated

I wouldn't use it past six months in a deep freezer. Like @rileyandme said, the taste changes and there's a good chance your LO wouldn't take to it anyways.

caroline8_p

It really doesnt hurt to try, smell it first to make sure its not spoiled. And if he doesnt take it, you still did momtastic! Look into donating the rest to a child thats the age of the milk.. make sense? Lol

trixiesmom8

Even tho its able to be used for 12? @captivated
@caroline8_p I think I will otherwise I will have wasted tons of milk and hopefully it will be ok to use. If not, oh well, at least I'm not out any money. I wouldn't even know who to call for that sort of thing?

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LeviLuv8

I just thought deep freeze is 6m regular freezer 3 months. But I also thought I heard your supposeto put it in deep freeze right away for it to stay good for 6m. I don't know for fact tho. I just use my freezer and have stuff from a month ago.

caroline8_p

Hmm, call local donation banks.. look for a human milk for human babies around, eats on feets, milksharing, etc.

trixiesmom8

@homebirthadvocate thanks I will!
@leviluv8 hmm..I've never heard of that before? Hopefully that's not the case.
@caroline8_p thanks I will. My step mom is a social worker so ill ask her if it doesn't work out for us.

captivated

I never heard twelve months. According to medela and la leche league, three months regular freezer and six in a deep?

caroline8_p

Here are some time specifics.

http://breastfeeding.hypermart.net/storagehandling.html

trixiesmom8

@captivated I've never heard that!
@caroline8_p thanks!

captivated

Oh. Well I was wrong! You learn something new everyday!! I'm kind of ridiculous when it comes to old things lol! I won't even eat hot dogs if they are in the fridge more than three days.

trixiesmom8

@captivated lol its ok. Yea I am too. But since that milk was at my parents, cause I thought they would use it sooner than us, so I couldn't use it otherwise it would already be gone lol.

trixiesmom8

@captivated @homebirthadvocate @caroline8_p @leviluv8 @rileyandme so I went to swap my freezer stash and I only have like 4/5 bags left from Dec. I guess they had been using way more than I thought. So if she doesn't like it at least we won't be wasting a ton, there is probly about 20-30oz total. So after the Dec stash is gone i have a few from march and April(which I didn't know about) then we are all in July-sept. Which is good since their deep freezer just gave out this week.

caroline8_p

Yay! Much less of a worry.

trixiesmom8

Yes it is. I was kind of bummed to know that's all that was left, but relieved so I wasn't wasting it either.

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