Here is an exerpt of text from the NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) maternal and infant nutrition, 2008 - aimed at health care professionals:

• Show all breastfeeding mothers how to hand-express breast milk.

• Advise mothers that expressed milk can be stored for:

up to 5 days in the main part of a fridge, at 4ºC or lower
up to 2 weeks in the freezer compartment of a fridge
up to 6 months in a domestic freezer, at minus 18ºC or lower.

• Advise mothers who wish to store expressed breast milk for less than 5 days that the fridge preserves its properties more effectively than freezing.

• Advise mothers who freeze their expressed breast milk to defrost it in the fridge and not to re-freeze it once thawed. Advise them never to use a microwave oven to warm or defrost breast milk.

And here's a link to the BfN's brilliant Expressing and Storing leaflet




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