Do you need to give expressed milk at the same time it is expressed

[hazchem]

I've just had a meme pop up on facebook saying you have to give morning expressed milk to a baby in the morning because it's like having a cup of coffee.

I've had a good search and can't find anything on KellyMom or ABA or a number of other breastfeeding websites to support this.

Is it true?

Just to not drip feed I'm not pumping it's just a curiosity thing

Sorry but never heard this before and i exclusively express for my lo. Mine goes into the fridge until it is is made up into the bottles of the right amount. Breastmilk will keep in the fridge for 6 days x

I had heard you could mix batch, for want of a better term, milk so I did think it was weird.

I think there's a theory that the composition is different depending when you pump? But I don't think the coffee analogy is the best one.

Thanks :)

There are hormones in night milk that make them sleepy apparently, although they didn't work on DS!

My understanding is day milk will lack these, rather than be like a caffeine hit. They have their first nap with an hour or so of waking so can't be that wired.

wtf, no. How to make expressing milk even more complicated! Yes, there are probably hormonal differences, but ds has "evening expressed" milk at the CM & barely sleeps there (he's a nosey bugger & can't bear to miss what the other kids are doing).

He'll nap for 2-3 hours during the day for me... (loose gina ford routine ducks to avoid fall-out)

I believe milk has different qualities at different types of day. My lactation consultant told me that milk in the evening tends to be richer and fattier than morning milk (idea I think is that it lasts longer through the night). However I don't think that means you have to label your morning milk and only give it in the morning!

How utterly ridiculous to complicate people's lives like this.

Cup of coffee???

Yes, milk does change, a bit, but not just with the hours/time of day, but with the age of the baby, the immune needs of the baby, the flavours of the mother's diet, the amount of milk in the breast (emptier breasts = creamier milk)....but not enough to warrant a moment of stress or concern about when to give it to the baby.

I got told this and for my children it rang true, if i gave them night time expressed milk in the day it made them sleepy, I exclusively pumped for 5.5 months

Not convincing, sorry, Mother. Could easily be coincidence.