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How long can breastmilk be stored?

Donna Bruschi, IBCLC provides the answer

Countertop or table at room temperature (up to 77°F): 6–8 hours

Refrigerator (39°F): 5 days

Freezer compartment of refrigerator with separate doors (0°F): 3–6 months

Chest or upright deep freezer (-4°F): 6–12 months

Donna Bruschi, IBCLC
New Baby, New Paltz
15 Plattekill Avenue
New Paltz
845-750-4402
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May 24, 2012 \| 1:19 AM

i would just like to quote a section from a great book celald survival of the sickest by Dr Sharon Moalem. This is in the light of the huge booby trap of iron in baby formula (particularly the follow on stuff) remember: breast milk is low in iron for a reason, that has evolved for hundreds of thousands of years; formula companies have only been researching for 40-50 years, nature has been researching for millions of years. iron is good, iron is good, iron is good.Well you know that,like just about every other good thing under the sun, when it comes to iron, its moderation, moderation, moderation. but until recently, current medical opinion didn't recognize that. Iron was thought to be good, so the more iron the better.A doctor named John Murray was working with his wife in a Somali refugee camp when he noticed that many of the nomads despite pervasive amaemia and repeated exosure to a range of virulent pathogens incuding maleria, TB and Brucellosis, were free of visible infection. he responded to this anomoly by deciding to treat only part of the population with iron at first. sure enough, he treated some of the nomads by giving them iron supplements and suddenly the infections gained the upper hand. the rate of infection in nomads receiving the extra iron skyrocketed. the somali nomads weren't withstanding these infections despite their anaemia, but because of their anaemia.35 years ago, doctors in New Zealand routinely injected Maori babies with iron supplements. they assumed that the Maori (indigenous peoples of New Z) had a poor diet lacking iron and that their babies would be anaemic as a result. the Maori babies injected with iron were 7x as likely to suffer from potentially deadly infections including septicemias and meningitus. Like all of us, babies have isolated strains of potentially harmful bacteria in their systems, but those strains are normally kept under control by their bodies. when doctors gave these babies iron boosters , they were giving booster fuel to the bacteria with tragic consequences.Its not just iron dosing through injection that can cause this blossoming of infection; iron supplemented foods can be food for bacteria too. Many infants can have botulism spores in their intestines (often found in honey, whcih is why this food should be avoided before a year old). If the spores germinate, the results can be fatal. A study of 69 cases of infant botulism in California showed one key difference between fatal and non fatal cases of botulism in babies. Babies who were fed with iron-supplemented formula instead of breast fed were much younger when they began to get sick and more vulnerable as a result. Of the ten who died, all had been fed iron-enhanced formula. so next time someone tried to force a mum to give iron enriched formula because the baby might get anaemic or more baby formula funded research like this one whines on about iron levels in babies, remember if it was desirable for survival to have iron in mothers milk nature would have put it there!

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