How do you freeze breastmilk?

i froze milk....just put it in the freezer and took it out that morning, Seemed to work all right apart from the milk and cream??? separates and looks icky. shajke it up and down and it's okay though

i thought of that but really need to have whole bottles, frozen, ready to go. i have no idea.   Tried Ayjaagain with a bottle this afternoon, have been trying it intermitently over last few weeks, and still, she will not take it. i feel like i am wasting all the stores of expressed milk i have just trying to get her take a bottle. mum said "oh just put her on formula" nup that is not what i want to do. ha, and even if i did there's no option, i still have to get her to take the bottle... so i dont see the difference in whether it has formula or expressed milk in it, as of monday she will have her last breastfeed at lunch and not have another till 6.30 when mike brings her up for me to feed during tea break. she will need 1 or 2 feeds during that time and that's that. argh am getting so frustrated.

I've heard that ofter it is easier to get them to take the bottle from someone else

Hi guys, I haven't tried it myself yet but one of the girls in my postnatal group freezes breast milk in the ice cube bags and says it is great. She works during the day and her hubby is at home, he just takes as many cubes as he needs and it works well.

I have also heard that the NUK bottles/teats seem to be he best ones for bub's to like?? Something to do with the shape of the teat... I don't know if that's relevant to you.

I want to start trying to express etc. soon as these 2/3 hourly night time feeds are really starting to do my head in!

Maya would only take the Avent ones (same size/shape as the Nuk ones). Fussy witch.

But I did what Anna did, froze the milk in the bottles so they were ready to go. And when I ran out of bottles I used those baby Gladware containers coz they stack nicely in the freezer and are cheap enough that if some go missing it doesn't break the bank.

We used plastic bottles and they seemed to be okay - not that fussy guts would ever take the bottle then! But I don't imagne the glass ones would freeze too well.

we are using the flat pur teats as those are the ones we used for paris (the same sort i mean... we have bought new ones of course!!) have an avent bottle and teats up in the cupboard, neither of my girls liked it. PAris was so much easier cos i started her at 3 weeks as i had some classes at ucol to go to, so she had bottles if she woke while mum was babysitting. would love to be able to express at the same time as feeding but ayja is a bit of a monkey if anything distracts her, am usually all right as long as i let down... get 150mls in about 5 mins... but that's easier said than done sometimes... have just frozen it in ice cube trays... i know each ice cube is 10mls.. so that's handy.

still went and got some formula, just in case i don't get up enough stores, although i have now found out that i will only be on night shift for about 5 nights, the second week is theory work so that's all good, we should be back to normal! so logically... that's only 5 - 10 bottles all up at the most. YAY!

lol, nah, it's all good, Ayja is sick at the mo, so doesn't really finish feeds or have both sides, so have been taking the opportunity to express it, lol, argh, decided to do that this morning, and wasn't till half way through that i looked and there wasn't much and i thought.. "hhm, that's weird" but nope couldn't see any leakages anywhere, till i moved, and found that it had leaked out a little crack where i hadn't put the bottle on properly, and all down the side of my pants and top and the couch was saturated. i now know where they got that saying about crying over spilt milk... I was so angry! but have no doubt we'll get there, still just have to get her to actually drink from bottle now.

My midwife told me no bottles till after 6 weeks so they don't get nipple teat confusion. Silly me listened to her and tried to introduce the bottle at 9 weeks, and ended up fighting a losing battle for the next 6 mths to get Maya to take it. Next time round I am definitely starting at about 3 weeks.

YAY! mike tired Ayja with the bottle yesterday and she took it for him straight away. that is so good.

on the other hand, she has been so sick all week, since last tuesday and was nearly admitted to hospital twice over the weekend because she has a really bad chest infection. so, dear daddy is taking the afternoon off work while i go up to the hospital for my placement, cos there's no way i am sending the babe to daycare. HAve a feeling my mum will be called in tomorrow arvo cos i think it'll be a few days before Ayja is better, and paris woke this morn with a cold. hhhmm it's always when i am on placement that the kids get sick. you know, sometimes i think that Murphy must really have it in for me.