Is it true that you can no longer feed breast milk..................

[Chopchopmissy]

as there is some enzyme that makes it go off when you are defrosting it? Just wanting to know out of curiosity as I was told this by a beast feeding mum yesterday and have never heard of it

TIA

Ok that should have read freeze and now the whole thing looks ridiculous - Sorry - really should check my spelling

LOL at the 'beast feeding mum' too

Sorry, don't have an answer.

great typos!

Never heard of that theory though.

lol at typo!

I have heard that some women have higher levels of a particular enzyme which makes the milk go a bit curdled when defrosted, but it's not a 'happens to everyone' thing, so most people can still freeze it no problem.

I have never heard about that. all i know is that it may change the consistency, but you should stir (not shake) and it will be fine.

This is from the latest NICE guidelines...

Advice on how to store breast milk:

? up to 5 days in the main part of the fridge at 4°C or lower (this preserves its properties better than freezing)
? up to 2 weeks in the freezer compartment of
a fridge ? up to 6 months in a domestic freezer at ?18°C or lower.

Frozen milk should be defrosted in the fridge and not refrozen once thawed; it should not be defrosted or warmed in a microwave oven

women whose milk seems to 'go off' can scald it before freezing, i think, which deactivates the enzyme. here is a discussion on it.

I've always wondered about this, as dd once freaked when given a bottle of defrosted ebm, when she'd previously been guzzling the refrigerated stuff happily. (that was ages ago and she now won't touch a bottle, that is a different story...

Anyway i was wondering, how would you know if your milk did have this enzyme?

Caz, apparently the milk tastes foul when defrosted, you couldn't make any mistake about it. It is actually safe to give the baby but some babies reject it.