expressing for a 7 week old baby - advice please

[friendly]

I am going to be leaving my 7week old with dh tomorrow. I will feed him before I go so he probably won't need a feed but I am going to leave a bottle just in case (only out for a couple of hours max). He's never had a bottle before and I have no idea, despite him being my 6th, how much I should leave for him. Any advice would be welcome, thank you.

[ThePinkOne]

You might find you're restricted by how much you can express! It can take practice to get huge amounts. That said I would think a couple of oz (sorry don't do ml!) would do just until you get back.
Although this is from someone whose DS won't take a bottle at all

[friendly]

Thank you pink one. I left about 3 oz and then was only a couple of hours and it wasn't needed. Now my question is how long can I keep it in the fridge. Probably chuck it tomorrow if not used?

[ThePinkOne]

See if you can search the archives on here but I think it's way longer than you'd think - like a week

I guess you could taste it and see? Or you could freeze it as long as it's been in the fridge since you expressed it and it lasts for about 3 months in the freezer.

[dingdong05]

This information is definately in cyber space somewhere, can't remember it off the top of my head. Formula has to be chucked after 24 hours, I think, but i'm sure breast milk lasts longer, and freezes well.
I had bags of the stuff at one point

[whingingDailyHateMail]

I think its 5 days in fridge, it will be on kellymom I'm sure.

Aha - here it is

8 days it says. Think the UK guidelines are shorter for some reason but I tend to believe kellymom on most things