| I do exclusive EBM to with my second at 5mths now. he's taking 6oz per feed, going 4 hrs each time. he basically finishes what i pump so we don't have excess to freeze.
For my first child, i had a lot of excess BM and had two freezer full, but then we tried giving her the frozen BM, it clearly tasted different, she didn't like it and also i think caught a stomach bug. so we dared not gave her the frozen stuff again. huge heartache having to dump two freezers full of EBM.
i don't mean to scare you, but my point is if you do freeze. best to try the frozen milk earlier before freezing large amounts for weeks and months and then find out it doesn't work. i find that coz there are so much more steps to freezing, trasferring from bottle to bags, freezing, defrosting etc.. the possiblity of contamination increases. i just had a bad experience maybe others with more positive experience with freezing can chime in, i never got the freezing part down. good luck! |