A video giving tips on how to store breastmilk.
Source: KidsHealth
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Voice
[Music]
Breast milk can be stored. Remember to use a sterilised container to put the milk in.
You can store your breast milk in the fridge for up to 48 hours.
Lactation consultant
So Rebecca for storing your breast milk now that, I mean you must be getting some really good volumes, what do you do?
Mum
At the moment I'm storing for 24 hours, uh, the fresh milk, uh, because the wee-er baby, this one, is getting top ups, um, so she breastfeeds and then we give her the expressed top up ...
Lactation consultant
Yes
Mum
... um, just to get, um, her weight gain up. Uh... and I also, um, if I get excess, I freeze, um, the excess supply.
Lactation consultant
We know that if you expressed that now, you could leave it in, at this temperature for four hours before you need to put it in the fridge and then you'd store it at the back of the fridge. Always label of course and date your breast milk which is really important because you need to make sure which was the first expressed.
Mum
[Muffled words of agreement]
Lactation consultant
Yes absolutely, so label and date it, pop it in the back of the fridge where it doesn't change temperatures. You wouldn't put it on the door because then every time you open the door, it changes temperature
Mum
[Muffled words of agreement]
Yep no we have it at the back. Don't we? And we have it in the freezer downstairs rather than the freezer we use.
[Music]
Voice
It's best to store it at the back in the lower half of the fridge, never in the door. This should keep it [sound of fridge door closing] between two to four degrees Celsius.
You can keep breast milk at room temperature, in a cool dark place, for up [sound of tap running] to four hours.
[Sound of tap running continues]
Voice
Your breast milk can be stored for up to three to six months in a freezer. Allow your frozen breast milk to defrost itself in the fridge. When it's thawed, use it straight away.
[Sound of running tap]
Voice
Your baby might like warm milk.
[Sound of running tap]
Voice
Stand the bottle in a container of hot water and let it heat to body temperature before feeding.
Lactation consultant
... and that will sit in there and occasionally just test it. You test it on the forearm here and you shouldn't really feel it. If it's exactly the right temperature, it should be neither hot nor cold.
Voice
Microwaving bottles is not recommended because the uneven heating can burn your baby's mouth and the heat can damage the food value and health protecting qualities of breast milk.
Lactation consultant
Did you feel that or is that about the right temperature?
Mum
I can't feel anything. Is that meant to be normal?
Lactation consultant [Dialogue spoken at same time in parts]
That's ...that will mean it's the right temperature to feed your baby.
Mum [Dialogue spoken at same time in parts]
Right temperature? Oh yeah.
Mum [Dialogue spoken at same time in parts]
All right. Cool.
Lactation consultant [Dialogue spoken at same time in parts]
Perfect. Well done
Voice
Once warmed and before feeding, always swirl the container of milk to mix well and test the temperature by shaking a few drops of milk on the inside of your wrist.
[Music]
Voice
The milk should feel just warm on your skin.
[Music]
Lactation consultant
So we'd store it for four hours at room temperature, two days in the fridge, or four months in the freezer.
Key messages in other languages
Te putu waiลซ (Te Reo Mฤori)
Ka taea te whakaputu waiลซ.
Me mahara ki te whakamahi i tฤtahi ipu horomata hei putu ki roto.
Ka taea te putu i tล waiลซ ki rล pouaka makariri atu ki te 48 haora i te 2 โ 4 pฤmahana C (ko te tikanga ki muri o te wฤhanga o raro o te pouaka makariri, kaua ki te kลซaha).
Ka taea e koe te waiho waiลซ ki te pฤmahana ฤ-whare atu ki te 4 haora.
Ka taea te putu i tล waiลซ atu ki te 3 ki te 6 marama rฤnei i te pouaka tio.
Waiho tล waiลซ tio ki te miraka ki te pouaka makariri rewa ai. Ina rewa ana, me whakamahi tonu.
Tฤrฤ pea ka hiahia tล pฤpi i te waiลซ mahana. Whakatลซhia te pฤtara ki roto i tฤtahi ipu wai wera ka waiho kia rite rฤ anล te mahana ki tล tinana kฤtahi whฤngaihia. (Kฤore e pai te whakamahana pฤtara ki roto i te ngaruiti i te mea kฤore e ลrite te whakamahana ka mutu kei wera te waha o tล pฤpi, ฤ, kei kino te painga o te kai me ngฤ kounga tiaki hauora o te waiลซ.)
Ina mahana ana, ฤ, i mua i te whฤngaitanga me whakapฤซoioi te ipu waiลซ i ngฤ wฤ katoa kia tino ranu pai ai, me te whakamฤtau i te pฤmahana mฤ te rurerure mai i ฤtahi turunga waiลซ ki te taha o tล whatianga. Ko te tikanga ka rongo koe i te mahana o te waiลซ ki tล kiri.
Tokaaga he huhu tatau (Vagahau Niue, Niuean)
Maeke e huhu tatau he toka.
Fakaaoga e kapiniu kua fakameฤ lahi ke tatau ki ai e huhu.
Maeke ke toka e huhu tatau haau he filisa noa ke hoko ke he 48 e tulฤ mo e (2 โ 4) ยฐC Celsius he momoko filisa (tuku ki tua he toloa i lalo he filisa, kae nakai ke he gutuhala).
Maeke ke toka noa he poko mafana e huhu kae nakai molea e 4 e tulฤ.
Maeke e huhu tatau haau ke toka ke he 3 โ 6 e mahina he filisa tuli (freezer).
Toka he filisa noa e huhu tuli ke fakatataka ai. Kaeke kua tataka, kua lata ni he mogo ia ke fakaaoga.
Neke manako e muke haau ke kai he puke huhu mafana. Tuku e lupo he polu vai mafana ti toka ke mafana ai ke he mafana he tino to age ke fagai aki. (Ai lata ke fakaaoga e microwave he neke vela e gutu he muke he magaaho ka kai ai, ti moumou ai he vela lahi ia e tau huhua kai mitaki mo e tau puipuiaga tino he huhu he matua.)
Ka mafana ai, mo e to age ke kai e muke, fakamahani ke lulululu e lupo ke fio mitaki e huhu mo e fuafua ai e mafana he puke huhu ke he aolima haau. Kua lata ke mafana fakatote e huhu ke he lima haau.
Teuina o suฤsusu mai susu o le tina (Gagana Sฤmoa, Samoan)
O suฤsusu mai le tina e mafai ona teuina.
Manatua ia faโaaogฤ meauga faโapitoa (sterilised containers) e tuโu ai suฤsusu.
E mafai ona e teuina lou suฤsusu i totonu o le pusaโaisa mo le 48 itula i le malulu o le 2-4 tikeli C (e masani lava i le pito i tua o le pusaโaisa i le afa i lalo, aua lava ne i tuโuina i le faitotoโa o le pusaโaisa).
E mafai ona e tuโuina suฤsusu i fafo o le pusaโaisa i le mafanafana o le potu mo le 4 itula.
O lou suฤsusu e mafai ona teuina i le pusaโaisa mo le 3-6 masina i totonu o le fulisa.
Ia tuโuina lou suฤsusu mai le fulisa ina ia faโavaiina i totonu o le pusaโaisa. A liusuฤvaia loa, faโaaoga loa.
E fiafia lau pepe i le susu mafanafana. Faโatลซ le fagususu i totonu o se konitaina vaivevela ma faโavevela ia oโo i le mafanafana o lou tino ae le i fafagaina i lau pepe. (O le faโavevelaina o susu i totonu o masini faโavevela meaโai (microwave) e lฤ tatau ona o le lฤ tutusa o le vevela o le susu ma e ono mu ai le gutu o le pepe, ma o le vevela foโi e ono faโatamaโia ai vaega tฤua o meaโai ma le soifua maloloina o le puipuia o vaega lelei ma tฤua o lo o i totonu o suฤsusu).
A mafanafana loa, ma a o le i fafagaina, ia faโamasani ona luluina le fagu susu ina ia faโatutusa lelei le susu ma tofo le mafanafana e ala lea i le luluina o sina susu i luga o le vaega i totonu o lou tapulima. O le susu e tatau ona mafanafana i lau faโalogo.
Ko te teuga o te huฤhuhu mai te huhu (Gagana Tokelau, Tokelauan)
Ko te huฤhuhu mai te huhu e mafai ke teu.
Manatua ke fakaaogฤ he mea e tuku ai nฤ mea (container) kua uma te tฤmate o nฤ hiama ke tuku ki loto te huฤhuhu.
E mafai ke tuku te huฤhuhu mai te huhu o te mฤtua i te aiha ke pฤ ki te 48 itลซlฤ i te 2-4 tikelฤซ C (e mฤhani lava i tua i te afa i lalo o te puha aiha, nahe tukua ki te faitotoka).
E mafai ke tuku e koe te huฤhuhu mai te huhu o te mฤtua i te fua o te vevela o te potu (room temperature) mล te 4 itลซlฤ.
Ko tล huฤhuhu mai te huhu o koe e mafai ke teu mล te 3 ki te 6 mahina i te filisa (freezer).
Tukuvฤ tล huฤhuhu i te aihฤ ke fakaliu (defrost) lava ia i loto i te aiha. Kฤfai kua liu, fakaaogฤ loa lava.
Ko tau pepe atonu e fiafia ki te huฤhuhu mฤfanafana. Fakatลซ te fagu i he mea tuku mea (container) i te vai vevela ma tuku ke pฤ ki te vevela o te tino (body temperature) ka ko hฤki fafaga. (Ko te microvave o te fagu e hฤ lelei auฤ ko te hฤ lฤutahi o te vevela e mafai ke mลซ ai te gutu o te pepe, ma ko te vevela e mafai ke fakakino ai te aogฤ o te meakai ma te tลซlaga puipuia o te ola mฤlลlล o te huฤhuhu mai te huhu).
E mฤfanafana loa lava, ka ko hฤki fafaga, lลซlลซ muamua te fagu huhu i taimi uma ke tau lelei ma hiaki te vevela i te fakamoti o ni moti huฤhuhu ki luga o tล tapulima. Ko te huhu e tatau ke lagona te mฤfanafana i tล paku.
Tauhi fakatolonga โo e huโahuhuยด (Lea Faka-Tonga, Tongan)
โOku lava ke tauhi fakatolonga โa e huโahuhuยด.
Manatuโi ke ngฤueโaki ha hina kuo โosi haka ke tauhi ai โa e huโahuhuยด.
โE lava ke ke tauhi fakatolonga โa ho huโahuhuยด โi he โaisi fakamokomokoยด โo aโu hake ki he houa โe 48 โi he tikilฤซ selisiasi โe 2-4 (โoku faโa tuku eni โi mui โi he konga ki lalo โo e โaisiยด, โo โoua โaupito โe tuku โi he matapaaยด).
โE lava ke tuku โa e huโahuhuยด โi he tuโunga mฤfana pฤ โo e loki โoku mou โi aiยด โo aโu hake ki he houa โe 4.
โE lava ke tauhi fakatolonga โa ho huโahuhuยด โo aโu hake ki he mฤhina โe 3 ki he 6 kapau โoku tuku โi he โaisi fakapolokaยด (freezer).
Tuku ke mole โa e polokaยด โi loto pฤ โi he loto โaisi fakamokomokoยด. Ko โene vaiaยด pฤ pea fakaโaongaโi leva ia.
โE ngali saiโia โa hoโo pฤpeeยด ke mafana โa โene huโakauยด. โAi eni โi ha hina โo fokotuโu โi ha vai vela pea tuku eni ke aโu hake ki he tuโunga mฤfana tatau mo e mฤfana โo e sinoยด pea toki fafanga. (โOku โikai poupouโi atu hono faโo eni โi he maikoloueiviยด koeโuhiยด ko e tลkehekehe โa e fua mฤfanaยด โa ia โe ala vela ai โa e ngutu โo hoโo pฤpeeยด, pea โe hanga โe he vela ko iaยด โo tamateโi โa e ngaahi ivi polotini mo e ngaahi nฤunau faitoโo โi loto โi he huโahuhuยด).
Hili pฤ โa hono fakamafanaยด, pea kimuโa โi he fafangaยด, lulu maโu pฤ โa e hina huโakauยด ke fefiohi lelei pea โahiโahiโi โa hono mafanaยด โaki hano luluโi hifo โo ha ngaahi mataโi tulutฤ ki ho kiaโinimaยด. โOku totonu ke kiโi mฤmฤfana pฤ eni โi he โene tau โi ho kiliยด.
Te akaputuโanga i te ลซ tangata (Mฤori Kuki Airani, Cook Islands)
Ka meitaki te ลซ tangata i te akaputuโia.
Kia maara ia koe e, ei vairanga ลซ kua oti meitaki i te tamaโia ma te kore e tiemu i roto, ka tuku ei koe i te ลซ ki roto i reira.
Ka rauka ia koe i te akaputu i toou ลซ i akataโe koe ki roto i te kaparata aisi (fridge) no tetai 48 ora e kia tano te vaito anu ki te 2 โ 4 tikiri C (ki muri i te ope o te vairanga o raro mai o te fridge, auraka rava e, ki roto i te ngutupa).
Ka rauka ia koe i te akaruke i te ลซ tangata no tetai 4 ora ki roto i tetai ua atu piโa o te ngutuare.
Ka meitaki toou ลซ akataโe kia akarukeโia no tetai 3 ki te 6 marama ki roto i te piโa anu tikai o te fridge (freezer).
E akaruke koe i toou ลซ tei toka anu kia taโe akaou rai i roto i te fridge. Me akamata akaou ana i te taโe, e ta-angaanga viviki koe i te reira, i te reira taime rai.
Penei ka reka taau pepe i te ลซ tei tฤmaanaanaโia. Tukuโia te moina ลซ ki roto i tetai vairanga e vai vera to roto, ka akaruke ei kia taena te turanga vaito maana o te kopapa, i mua ake ka angai ei koe. (Kare te tฤmaana ki roto i te microwave e tau kia raveia no te mea, ka pakapaka te vaโa o taau pepe i te turanga vera tuketuke o te microwave, e ka kino te turanga meitaki e te turanga paruru o te ลซ tangata).
Me maana ana, e i mua ake ka akamata ai koe i te angai, e takaviriviri meitaki koe i te vairanga ลซ kia kairo meitaki tikai, ma te akapapu i te turanga vaito o te vera na roto i te topataโanga i tetai au topatapata ลซ ki roto ake i toou atiโanga o te rima (wrist). Ko te tikaโanga, te maana ra te ลซ i runga i toou pakiri.
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๋ชจ์ ์ ์ฅํ๊ธฐ (ํ ๊ธ, Korean)
๋ชจ์ ๋ ์ ์ฅํด ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ผญ ์๋ ๋ ์ฉ๊ธฐ์ ๋ชจ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ด์๋์ญ์์ค.
๋ชจ์ ๋ ์ญ์จ 2~4๋์ ๋์ฅ๊ณ ์์ 48 ์๊ฐ ๋ณด๊ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํฉ๋๋ค(๋์ฅ๊ณ ํ๋จ ์์ชฝ์ ๋ณด๊ด. ๋ฌธ ์นธ์ ์ ๋ ๊ธ์ง).
์ค์จ ์ํ์์๋ ์ต๊ณ 4์๊ฐ๊น์ง ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๋๋๊ณ ์๋ ์ต๊ณ 3~6๊ฐ์๊ฐ ๋ณด๊ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
๋๋์ํจ ๋ชจ์ ๋ ๋์ฅ๊ณ ์ ๋ฃ์ด ์ค์ค๋ก ํด๋๋๊ฒ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ น์ผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฌ์ฉํ์ญ์์ค.
์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ชจ์ ๋ฅผ ์ข์ํ ์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด ๋ฌผ์ ๋ด์ ์ฉ๊ธฐ ์์ ์ ๋ณ์ ์ธ์๋๊ณ ์ฒด์จ๊ณผ ๋น์ทํ ์จ๋๊ฐ ๋ ๋๊น์ง ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค๊ฐ ์๊ธฐ์๊ฒ ๋จน์ ๋๋ค. (๋ชจ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ธ ๋ ์ ์๋ ์ธ์ง๋ฅผ ์ด์ฉํ์ง ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข์. ๊ท ์ผํ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ง ์์ ์๊ธฐ ์ ์ด ๋ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ด ๊ณผ์ ์ ๋ชจ์ ์ ์์์์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ํจ๋ฅ ์ฑ๋ถ์ด ํ๊ดด๋ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ)
๋ชจ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์์ง๋ฉด ํญ์ ๊ทธ ์ฉ๊ธฐ ๋ณ์ ๋น๋น ๋๋ ค ์ ์์ ๋ค ์๋ชฉ ์์ชฝ์ ๋ช ๋ฐฉ์ธ์ ๋จ์ดํธ๋ ค ์จ๋๊ฐ ์ ๋นํ์ง ํ์ธํ๊ณ ๋จน์ ๋๋ค. ์๋ชฉ ํผ๋ถ์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋๋์ด ์ค๋ ์ ๋์ ์จ๋์ฌ์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
Key messages
Breastmilk can be stored.
Remember to use a sterilised container to put the milk in.
You can store your breastmilk in the fridge for up to 48 hours at 2 to 4 degrees Celsius (usually at the back in the lower half of the fridge, never in the door).
You can keep breastmilk at room temperature for up to 4 hours.
Your breastmilk can be stored for up to 3 to 6 months in a freezer.
Allow your frozen breastmilk to defrost itself in the fridge. When it is thawed, use it straightaway.
Your baby might like warm milk. Stand the bottle in a container of hot water and let it heat to body temperature before feeding. (Microwaving bottles is not recommended because the uneven heating can burn your baby's mouth, and the heat can damage the food value and health protecting qualities of breastmilk.)
Once warmed, and before feeding always swirl the container of milk to mix well and test the temperature by shaking a few drops of milk on the inside of your wrist. The milk should feel just warm on your skin.
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