Breast Feeding for Infants for Mothers Who Can Not Breastfeed.

Breast milk is a nutrient that is perfect for baby's mental development and growth. Give breast milk to a baby means to meet the nutritional needs of infants so that health and intelligence of babies would be assured. However, how if you are a career woman or female workers who have to leave your baby? Or is there something that forces it to you so that you can not breastfeed your baby directly. Don't worry. Your breast milk dairy and you can save it, whether in the refrigerator or freezer, to then later be given by your baby sitter while you were in office.

There are a few things to know when the store expressed milk.

1. Container to accommodate breastfeeding should be made ​​of material that is easily sterilized, such as bottle lids tightly made ​​of plastic or heat resistant glass. Usually the best option is to freeze the milk in a bottle made ​​of glass because the components of milk in the glass more durable and protected. The second option is a clear hard plastic. Most women prefer the plastic bottles as well as with the hospital or birthing center, because the plastic is not easily broken. A place to store breast milk bottle cap should have a tightly. Make sure the reservoirs and storage have been sterile and not contaminated.
2. We recommend using a volume container in accordance with the needs of the baby for a drink, For infants less than 6 weeks, breast milk should be stored in the bottle as much as 29.5 to 59 mL, so the time needed to warm up not too long and not a lot of wasted milk. For larger infants, the amount saved every bottle of milk which can be adjusted by the amount of milk usually drunk. But it would be better to keep the milk in smaller quantities, if at any time your baby wants more milk or to distraction.
3. If breast milk expressed and given less than 4 hours, then do not need to be stored in the refrigerator, unless more than 4 hours, then refrigerate breast milk in the refrigerator or freeze in freezer as soon as possible. Breast milk in the refrigerator with a temperature of 0 to 3.9 ° C can be stored for 8 days. When expressed milk will be used within 1 week or more, then the expressed milk must be cooled in a refrigerator for 30 minutes, then frozen at a temperature of -18 degrees Celsius or lower. Which have been frozen milk can be stored between 3-6 months. Instead, keep milk in the refrigerator the middle, or in the deepest part of the freezer, because these locations have cooler temperatures and constant. Do not store milk in a rack attached to the door of the refrigerator because the temperature in this place is easy to change when the door opened and closed.
4. Put a label on each package stating the date milking breast milk and use the oldest stock first. If your baby is hospitalized, make sure that the label also listed the name of you or your baby clearly, so that breast milk has not been entered.
5. Never fill a container full of milk containers, because the milk will expand when frozen. Leave about ¼ of section blank.

There are some things you need to consider in storing expressed milk:

• That has been warmed milk should not be cooled again to be given to infants at the time of the next drink.
• Freezing a long time (more than 6 months) can alter the chemical composition of breast milk, such as decomposition of some compounds occur in fat and the loss of several compounds that protect against harmful organisms. Risk of contamination is high, if a sudden power outage so that fresh milk and frozen again.