Bottle warmer for scalding high lipase breastmilk?

[gmaurice]

Hi -

I'm exclusively breastfeeding but trying to pump one bottle a day for Dad to help out. Unfortunately I just discovered reason baby has been refusing said bottle is that my breast milk is high lipase and unless I scald it immediately it tastes foul the next day.

I'm finding standing over the hob with a thermometer to get it to exact right temperature a bit tricky to juggle by myself with an impatient baby needing me too.

I believe it is possible to do this with a bottle warmer instead - can anyone recommend one that will heat to 80-82C (rather than the usual 37C)?

And if anyone also has any other tips to make process easier, would love to hear (e.g. a simpler way to cool than setting up an ice bath).

Thanks!

I have wondered about the warmer/steriliser in ones but found that boiling a glass bottle to sterilise it and then pouring my milk in it and swirling it around till it cools a bit worked fine. If I was going for more accuracy (storing for longer) then I put a bottle of milk in a pan of water and swirled with a prob in the milk.

putting milk in the pan directly was way too easy to screw up.

I used to do it in the microwave. It's not the recommended method but it worked for me. If I waited til I got home from work to scald the milk I'd expressed during the working day it was too late, and perhaps unsurprisingly I didn’t have a hob in my office! But I did have access to a microwave so that was my only option really. I figured out that microwaving for 10-15 seconds, giving it a swirl and repeating until bubbles were just starting to form on the surface of the milk did the trick. You have to be careful not to overdo it and actually boil it, hence the need for repeated checks so it's a bit tedious but seems to work. I'd then just cool the bottle in a sink of cold water and put it in the back of the fridge in a mini cool bag. I did this for several years with no adverse effects as far as I could tell.