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Not to heat DS's milk?

35 replies

Gwenci · 26/06/2015 14:45

DS is 11 weeks old and is EBF. One of his afternoon feeds is a bottle of expressed milk, just to make sure he'll take a bottle if he ever has to. (You never know, I might get the chance to brush my hair and slip my dancing shoes on. We live in hope!)

Anyway, he was bawling away just now, demanding his milk and I was cursing having to wait for the expressed milk to warm (it was straight out of the fridge). So thought I'd stick the teat in his mouth, assuming he'd pull a face, reject it and then I'd carry on heating it.

Turns out the greedy little munchkin doesn't care if it's warm or cold. He guzzled it all straight from the fridge, no warming.

Is this ok? I've read other forums where horrified mums have shrieked 'it'll give them a CHILL!!!' Or at the very least tummy ache. Is this true? Or can I carry on giving him fridgey milk?!

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LissieD · 27/06/2015 10:03

I thought one aspect of bf was it helped regulate the baby's body temperature. But maybe that's just for teeny tiny ones. And it's not like the weather is cold right now.

shrunkenhead · 27/06/2015 11:41

My dd always had af it as it came..... I never bothered heating defrosted breastmilk though. Think it makes for a far less fussy baby!

ShellyBobbs · 27/06/2015 14:02

Does anyone know if warming breastmilk affects the nutrients? I can't find anything factual online.

morelikeguidelines · 27/06/2015 14:57

Neither of mine ever minded cold milk.

Frusso · 27/06/2015 15:02

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TerryTheGreenHorse · 27/06/2015 15:07

I never did, room temp easy life. Cows milk was always from the fridge when they had that.

lightgreenglass · 27/06/2015 15:19

DS1 never had his milk warmed in the 10.5 months I gave him EBM, now he's on cows milk it's straight from the fridge. DS2 has his warned as that's what they did in the special care unit but I am going to phase it out as waiting for it to warm in the night is a pain in the backside.

Gwenci · 27/06/2015 15:58

Thanks everyone! DS has just had his second cold bottle and is happy as Larry. I'll definitely be going with it! (Had to show DH this thread when he questioned me on the lack of bottle heating. He's bowed to the superior knowledge of mumsnet!)

He's actually my second DC but with his older sister, what with her being a PFB and all, it never would've occurred to me not to heat her bottle!

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DisappointedOne · 27/06/2015 19:18

Warming and swirling doesn't. Boiling and shaking does.

DisappointedOne · 27/06/2015 19:19

Sorry, that was in response to

Does anyone know if warming breastmilk affects the nutrients? I can't find anything factual online.

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