What do you do to cycle in frozen milk?

Question

So, before I went back to work, I did my best to build a freezer stash of pumped milk, expecting potentially to have supply issues and needing to use it.. 
I have been back at work now for a few weeks, and I seem to be able to keep up with my son’s daily needs, plus a little extra that gets frozen if he doesn’t take it. (Yay!!)
The oldest frozen milk I have is from November, so soon I will be at that three month mark... some charts I see say you can freeze 3 months, and some say 6... anyway... the milk is stored in a stand up freezer. 
I am thinking if I don’t want to waste it I should start to rotate it into my son’s daily bottles, right? What do you all do? Should I just thaw and serve a ‘from frozen’ bottle here and there and freeze an equal amount from what I pumped fresh? I know there could be times in the future when I need to be away or my supply drops and I should keep a frozen milk supply to fall back on.

Answer

A lot of people will freeze the milk they pumped on friday and then send the oldest milk they have to daycare that monday so they are continually rotating the frozen milk. And then send fresh milk the rest of the week

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I came to a similar dilemma recently. I have a small stash, but I don't trust my freezer to keep it for 6 months. I'm a little more than enougher, so I'm still adding to it just a little at a time. Since my lo sleeps through the night and I dropped my motn pump, what I've started doing is pulling one bag (they are kiinde bags, so I can feed directly from them) from the freezer after her last feeding, pop it in an insulated cooler, and allow it to thaw that way overnight on my nightstand (it is still quite cold in the morning and I still have to run some warm water over it before serving). My last pump of the night goes in the freezer and lo gets fresh the rest of the day. I also put half of my morning pump in the freezer since it yields double what she eats.Between that system and having my pumping parts on my nightstand as well, I hardly have to get out of bed for our first feeding and pumping session.

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Freeze what you pump that day, unless you or baby are sick. Then send the oldest milk the next day. According to le Leche league you can keep it in a regular freezer in the back for 6 months. It can stay longer than the recommended time, it just loses some of the antibodies.

What do you do to cycle in frozen milk?

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