Expressing

[LotsaTuddles]

I currently combination feed DS. He has a bottle of formula in the morning and another before bed.

I've just bought a breast pump. I know that breast milk can be kept for a few days in the fridge.

If I express say an ounce then a couple if hours later, another ounce, can I put both ounces in the same bottle to feed him?

I asked this question to my local bf support worker.

Apparantly you can add different lots of milk together to make up a feed but not to store it. I was told it would keep five days in the main part of the fridge. HTH

Best not to mix to store but you can to feed. So get a set of bottles and store them left to right, with the newest one on the left, always taking from he right, for example. If you're likely to be at risk of keeping some too long, use stickers to label with date and time.

Thanks.

That's what I meant, like if say he was sleeping and I felt a bit full and expressed a bit and did the same an hour later and again to make up his night time bottle?

I didn't mean to add to one bottle to store, just to give him later in the day