breast milk to spare

[esthermate]

Hi all, thought I would get your thoughts on this as you seem to be a bunch ofreally helpful mothers!

As my baby has never latched on, I made the decision to express my breastmilk for every feed. This was not an easy choice but I wanted her to have the best milk and so far it has ok- Time consuming but worth it.

It turns out I am a good milker as I am producing way too much milk when I express. I did start to freeze the excess but now my freezer is full, so I am now at the stage of throwing it away.

This seems a real waste. I looked into donating it to a milk bank, but as I live in Wales there are no milk banks here (which is dissapointing!).

It seems a real waste to just throw it away so I wondered if anyone had any advice on how I could put it to better use!

cant help but good on you for the thought. sad that theres no milk banks in wales, not like theres no children who could benefit. good luck

Where are you? Countess of Chester (Chester) collect from North Wales.

Good for you for expressing. It's hard work.
One MNer made soap out of her spare milk!

soap= now thats interesting. Perhaps I could give it to my cat instead.

I live in south wales

That's such a shame about the milk banks- I can't believe there are none in Wales! Are you chucking the freshly expressed stuff or the oldest frozen milk each time?

I'm currently chucking out the fresh stuff but will have to also start chucking out the frozen stuff too.

Once you start weaning you can use it in your lo's food.

I'm in south wales too and was disappointed that I couldn't donate my spare ebm.

Could you not gradually start expressing less often/less long periods of time and thereby decrease your supply until it kind of matches your LO's demand?

at your problem, though..