To ask what to do with old breast milk?!

[Napqueen1234]

When I say old...DD is 8 months old and full into weaning and doing well. I actually stopped breastfeeding at around 4 months due to various issues and I’ve just found my massive store of frozen breast milk (I didn’t use it as it’s in my freezer and we isolated with DHs sister and family and that’s when I stopped bf.

Do I chuck it? It seems a shame as it was so hard to bf and express and even looking at it I remember the hours pumping! Do I cook with it? Make porridge etc? Although I usually cook for my two other small kids and DD so I’d have to cook separately? I just don’t want to waste it really but I may have to.

Thanks!

Yes cook with it. Or milk baths, it’s very good for their skin.

You can keep breast milk frozen for up to 6 months before they suggest you need to bin it, so use it now! Yes, you can cook with it, or just give it straight in a bottle once defrosted.

Yes cook with it! It won’t do your older Dc any harm if they have it too.

Ok thanks all :) I will use it!!!

I kept little baggies of it for about 10 years. I cried as I took them to the compost bin.

You can cook with it. Or you could offer it to someone with a breastfed baby to keep as a stash as to someone who is EBF donated BM is better than formula if they need milk in an emergency. I took my friends BM stash that she’d built up as her son developed such severe allergies that he couldn’t have the expressed milk as she’d been eating dairy/nuts etc. I used it in food as my son didn’t take a bottle though- but it was a lovely thing for her to offer me.

Or she could have it still- as milk to drink.