Breast milk?

Question

Okay so I have a question I’m on a little vacation in Florida right now and currently breast feeding my 3 month old I had brought my breast pump along with and have been pumping in the middle of the night as she is sleeping through the night and I’ve been freezing it so my question is will the breast milk be okay to put in a cooler with a ice pack for when going to the airport back home and put it in the freezer once I land? I have over 20 ounces I don’t want it to go to waste! I’d like to store them in the freezer once I get back home. Would it be okay to do since it’d be in a cooler and then refreeze?

Answer

I brought frozen milk back from Florida. I had over 60 oz. I had several freezer packs in the yeti cooler. I also brought empty ziplock bags and filled them with ice from the restaurants (or the flight attendants on the plane) after security and added them to the cooler. They were still completely frozen when I got home so I tossed them in the freezer again. If they would have thawed I probably would have just used them within 24 hours or saved them for a milk bath. Good luck!

Answer

I had this problem, too. There's a lot of mixed information. Some say that if it's still partially frozen that its okay to refreeze but some say once it has started to thaw  that you have 24-48 hours in the fridge before you need to toss it. When I got home I ended up not refreezing mine and basically gave my son a bottle of the "vacation breast milk" from the fridge while I pumped and then I just froze that at home. That way nothing went to waste, I still had a frozen stash and I didn't have to question the re-frozen milk. I hope that made some sort of sense...

Breast milk?

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