Once you collect your breast milk in the storage container put a top or cap not a feeding nipple onto the breast milk storage bottle or seal the.
Thawed breast milk left at room temperature.
Luckily breast milk is a live food that can withstand being left out for a relatively long amount of time.
If thawed milk is put in the refrigerator use within 24 hours.
Freshly pumped breast milk can be stored at room temperature no warmer than 77 f ideally for up to four hours if it s not in direct sunlight or close to other sources of heat.
Never re freeze breast milk once thawed.
Freshly expressed breast milk can be kept at room temperature for up to six hours.
Place it in the refrigerator or an insulated cooler with ice packs immediately.
Safety of breast milk left out will vary greatly depending on the overall bacteria levels in the environment.
How to warm your stored breast milk 2 3.
You should not thaw frozen breast milk at room temperature.
Breast milk is good at room temperature up to 77 f or 25 c for.
If breast milk is left.
For quicker thawing hold container under running water start cool and gradually increase temperature.
Thawed previously frozen breast milk can only stay at room temperature for one to two hours.
Healthy full term babies can drink breast milk at room temperature or warmed to body temperature.
Some have a preference others don t seem to mind.
Thaw slowly in the refrigerator this takes about 12 hours try putting it in the fridge the night before you need it.
If the room temperature is greater than 77 degrees f 25 degrees c do not let your breast milk sit out at all.
Avoid letting milk sit out at room temperature to thaw.
Do not use the microwave or place your breast milk in a pot of boiling water on the stove.
Fresh milk freshly expressed milk can be stored at room temperature for 6 8 hours.
Use breast milk within 24 hours of thawing in the refrigerator this means from the time it is no longer frozen or completely thawed not from the time when you took it out of the freezer.
Once breast milk is brought to room temperature or warmed after storing in the refrigerator or freezer it should be used within 2 hours.
Thawed breast milk left at room temperature should be fed to your baby within two hours or thrown away.
Freshly expressed breast milk can be stored in an insulated cooler with ice packs for up to one day.
