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Welcome. Milkshare is a parent-to-parent connection tool for those seeking milk and donating milk. For more information, visit www.milkshare.com. We hope that all of your needs will be met here!

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We have a few firm guidelines here at MilkShare, so please take note:

1. Absolutely NO selling of breastmilk or adult fettish requests permitted- report violations using the link at the bottom of page.
2. Donors should be refunded the cost of basic supplies. Recipients should pay for shipping costs in advance.
Please make these arrangements in advance and clearly communicate the expectations of both parties.
3. Most important: share milk responsibly and take steps to protect recipient children from diseases that are transmittable
through breastmilk. Helpful information is available on our website.


Age of Milk

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Age of Milk

Post by zf123011 on Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:10 am

I am storing frozen milk for my son and am finding I am starting to get a large stockpile. I am hoping to save enough milk to feed him in case I can't continue to nurse, but I don't want any milk to go to waste. How long do I have before I need to make sure the milk gets to a good home? I keep hearing vastly different numbers - from 3 months to 1 year - as to how long the frozen milk is still good. I store the milk in the garage fridge. It has a separate door for the freezer and since there is only milk in there, it only gets opened when I add another "bag" of milk (10 5oz freezer bags put together in a ziplock baggie for stackability).

On another issue - my son has a sensitive tummy. Whenever I eat something that disagrees with him - such as broccoli or cauliflower - I don't feed him the milk I next pump to try to avoid him getting an upset stomach. Would this be something I could save for someone else's baby instead of wasting it? It just hurts me to lose a whole pumping of milk!

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Post by crystal87 on Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:10 pm

3-4 months is how long BM will stay fresh in a regular freezer. Granted, your freezer is on the highest freezing level. Hope this helps!

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Post by adbaker0818 on Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:58 pm

I'm a donor milk recipient, and I absolutely would take milk that you were throwing out just because you've eaten cauliflower. Smile My baby doesn't seem to have any food aversions or anything. I'm sure you would find someone in your area that would take it!

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Post by adbaker0818 on Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:04 pm

Oh, here's a link to the official guidelines:

http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/recommendations/handling_breastmilk.htm

So ostensibly your milk is the "best" within 3 months, but ok up to 6 months.

Unofficially, and every one should do what's the best for their own baby-family-situation, as long as it smells and tastes ok, it's probably fine. I just had some donor milk that was in the 12-13 month range kept in the bottom of a deep freezer and it was fine for us.

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Re: Age of Milk

Post by 4EllaRP on Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:27 am

If you have any extra to donate please let me know as well. I sent you a PM. thank you!

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Re: Age of Milk

Post by taz1669 on Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:00 am

if you want milk that stores longer check out milk in the mail dot com

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