WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for September, 1998: Re: Expressing breast milk question

Re: Expressing breast milk question

From: Elizabeth (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:00:16 -0700

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No! It is absolutely not true - your milk will NEVER go bad while it is inside your breast. If this were true, you could not breastfeed your baby in the morning once he slept all night. Remember your milk production works on a supply and demand basis - the more you express, the more you make - it may take a day for your supply to catch up, but it will. If you are supplementing with formula, you are making less milk because you are using less milk and pumping less often will have you make less milk too. As long as you are exprpressing any amount of mik, you will not dry up completely because your body knows you still need at least that much milk to feed your baby.

If you need storage info for the milk once outside the breast, feel free to email me and I will post it. No fear while it is still inside your breast! Hope this helps and let me know if you have any more questions.

--- Best Wishes, Elizabeth,CCE

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:24:40 Yasmine wrote: >I have started supplementing my expressed breast milk with formula. >Since my breasts don't produce an adequate amount of milk every 3 or 4 >hours-- which is how often my two week old generally feeds-- I have to >expresss my milk every 6 to 8 hours to get a sufficient amount of milk >to satiate her (around 3 ounces). When I would express milk every 3 or >4 hours I would only get 1 ounce or so. I thought Ithat i would keep on >using this method until my milk dried up on its own.However, a friend of >mine told me today that she read somewhere that it is unsafe to feed a >baby milk that has been stored in a mother's breast for longer than 5 >hours. Is this true? I am really concerned now as I have been feeding >my baby my expressed milk for a few days now. >

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