Re-heating breast milk, can I do this?

[suzym1984]

HI!

Last night I left my DH to do the last feed with a bottle of expressed milk. DS had other ideas however, and would not wake up! DH had already heated the milk, he then put it back in the fridge when it became obvious that ds would not take the milk.

Should I throw the milk away this morning? or can it be used somehow?

hate the thought of throwing away 5oz of my precious milk!!

Thanks

It is so upsetting to have to throw away the most precious liquid there is but at the same time it's not worth doing anything that could potentially upset your little one's stomach.

I'm sorry to say it, but I think you have to throw it away. :(

It's prob ok, but not worth risking it. It prob not 'gone bad' and heating affects nutrients, without actually rendering it unusuable.

Breastmilk is not all that precious, you know :) I mean, it's brilliant stuff and all that, but it's hardly in short supply :)

It's no more 'precious' than any other body fluid that is continually removed and remade.

What is precious is mum's time spent expressing it.

Next time, prob not worth heating - babies often take milk straight from the fridge.

Id bin it

really not worth baby being sick and ill.

agree dont heat unless baby is awake / trying to feed and seems bothred by the chill factor!

No, you shouldn't use it.

Agree with tiktok...we don't either heating expressed milk, my dd takes it straight from the fridge.

Bother, sorry!