storing one's breast milk?

[OnlyWantsOne]

Second child due in 9 weeks - planning on BF just like with DD, but would like to store some milk so DP can feed him / her

I pump and store milk while I'm at work, which my DS has at his nursery. Here's what I can remember, I'm sure you can find more details online:
Freshly expressed milk will keep in the fridge for 5-7 days (keep it at the back not in the door where the temperature will fluctuate the most).

Expressed and frozen milk will keep for 3 months in a top-of-the-fridge freezer, or 6 months in a deep-freeze chest which is never opened.
Once you've defrosted milk, use it within 24 hours. If there's something left at the end of a bottle and you want to use it again, use it for the next feed (eg within 4-5 hours) or chuck it.

Because breastmilk is alive, you don't have to be quite so worried about bacteria breeding in it as you do with formula, but of course you want everything to be clean and keep a sensible eye on how long that bottle's been on the kitchen top, etc.
Freezing reduces some of the nutritional awesomeness of breastmilk, so if you can pump and keep in the fridge, all the better - but frozen BM has still got all the great things that formula doesn't have - so absolutely worth storing your milk.

whats the best way of storing it? bags? bottles?

Whichever works best for you - bags can leak, bottles take up more space... I pump into a bottle then tip it into a bag for long term storage. And I keep the bags in an old ice-cream tub :)

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