How exactly do you frezeze and store your milk?

[billyog]

I've made a big mistake, it would seem. I've got loads of milk in the frezzer that I froze initally in a bog standard ice cube tray and then transfered into a frezzer bag, bought from tescos for frozen food. I red somewhere that the chemicals in plastic bags can leach onto the milk and have had this confrimed on la leache website. I do remember now buying special frezzer bags from mothercare with my first dc, but can i use a bog standard ice cube tray or do I need a special one of these too? What do you guys do? I'm so sad that I have to throw away all this milk

hiya, I am sure the milk you have stored will be fine, honestly... don't owrry abouit it.

I used to use the storage bags from boots/mothercare. if you have a medela pump their bags will tie directly onto the pump and you can just pump straight into it.
or you can pump into a bottle and then decant into the bags and freeze.

no need for ice cube tray

billyog, I think the LLL recommendation means if you pump straight into the bag, not if you put frozen cubes of milk into a bag. I can't see how chemicals can leach into something solid like ice.

How old is your LO? I think the ice cube tray technically should be sterilised, but freezing ought to have killed off any bacteria anyway - if you are worried, just make sure you use any milk immediately after you defrost it - don't defrost it slowly or leave it in the fridge for a few days. As thisisyesterday said, you don't really need to use ice cube trays anyway.