cocraze
Active Member
Hi all,
I'm not sure whether I was careless during the expressing and storage process, but the frozen EBM that I had stored in the freezer changes smell.
When I first take the frozen pack out, I place it in a cup of cool water to defrost from frozen to chilled temperature. When its melted and fully liquid, I pour into milk bottle. At this stage, I taste and smell the milk, it smells alright, just like the smell of expressed milk before freezing. But after I warm the milk by putting it in a mug of hot water, it smells sours and tastes weird.
Does it mean the milk was already sour to begin with? Cos I recall sometimes I took quite long to express milk. At my best episodes, I could express about 180ml in 30 mins. Sometimes, it took longer. I also don't know whether it was because I mixed milk from two different sessions into one milk storage bag. I did make sure that the milk were chilled to the same temperature in the fridge before I mixed them and immediately poured into milk bag and freeze. However, I did not keep them in ziplock bag immediately as I had to wait until it freezed into shape before I kept them in a huge ziplock bag. The freezer usually only stores ice cream, ice cubes and 1-2 packs of butter. No other raw food during most of the 2 months that it was frozen.
I very heart pain cos I'd not fed the frozen EBM to my girl in the past two months cos she was colicky and family members keep bugging me whether ok for her to drink frozen milk (ask "frozen milk wont cause wind meh", or say "her stomach not feeling well, better give her FM", or say "make FM faster, don't let her cry so long, so much"). Just when she seems better now, the milk seems to have problem...
I can't decide whether to throw all the 10+ packs away at one go (heartpain once and for all) or throw away progressively (i.e. open one pack, defrost and warm, see whether sour then throw away) cos the latter make me heartpain many many times....
I admit Im stubborn cos I only managed to bf for a month, so I REALLY REALLY hoped that she could take more of the EBM that I had saved (many packs are from overnight sessions when I specially woke up to express while she was fed FM by my CL). So maybe my thinking is more irrational in this sense. But I also know that I should be more cautious and avoid feeding her anything questionable. Sigh..What to do????
ps: Ive stopped bf-ing or expressing for over 2 months liao, so girl has been on FM since.
I'm not sure whether I was careless during the expressing and storage process, but the frozen EBM that I had stored in the freezer changes smell.
When I first take the frozen pack out, I place it in a cup of cool water to defrost from frozen to chilled temperature. When its melted and fully liquid, I pour into milk bottle. At this stage, I taste and smell the milk, it smells alright, just like the smell of expressed milk before freezing. But after I warm the milk by putting it in a mug of hot water, it smells sours and tastes weird.
Does it mean the milk was already sour to begin with? Cos I recall sometimes I took quite long to express milk. At my best episodes, I could express about 180ml in 30 mins. Sometimes, it took longer. I also don't know whether it was because I mixed milk from two different sessions into one milk storage bag. I did make sure that the milk were chilled to the same temperature in the fridge before I mixed them and immediately poured into milk bag and freeze. However, I did not keep them in ziplock bag immediately as I had to wait until it freezed into shape before I kept them in a huge ziplock bag. The freezer usually only stores ice cream, ice cubes and 1-2 packs of butter. No other raw food during most of the 2 months that it was frozen.
I very heart pain cos I'd not fed the frozen EBM to my girl in the past two months cos she was colicky and family members keep bugging me whether ok for her to drink frozen milk (ask "frozen milk wont cause wind meh", or say "her stomach not feeling well, better give her FM", or say "make FM faster, don't let her cry so long, so much"). Just when she seems better now, the milk seems to have problem...
I can't decide whether to throw all the 10+ packs away at one go (heartpain once and for all) or throw away progressively (i.e. open one pack, defrost and warm, see whether sour then throw away) cos the latter make me heartpain many many times....
I admit Im stubborn cos I only managed to bf for a month, so I REALLY REALLY hoped that she could take more of the EBM that I had saved (many packs are from overnight sessions when I specially woke up to express while she was fed FM by my CL). So maybe my thinking is more irrational in this sense. But I also know that I should be more cautious and avoid feeding her anything questionable. Sigh..What to do????
ps: Ive stopped bf-ing or expressing for over 2 months liao, so girl has been on FM since.
