August 1-7 every year for the World Breastfeeding Week, this year is the 24th World Breastfeeding Week, the theme is “working mothers, ‘feed’ love persistence”, the purpose is to emphasize multi-sector, multi-level, multi-channel to promote lactating female workers adhere to breastfeeding. So today we’ll talk about how to store breast milk scientifically after work to better realize breastfeeding! For infants, breastmilk is the safest and most nutritious natural food, the World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a baby’s life, and continued breastfeeding from six months to two years of age or longer while supplementing with other foods. However, for most mothers, with the end of maternity leave, they must return to work, can not stay at home every day to take care of the baby, breastfeeding the baby, and even more unlikely to take the baby to work every day, so some mothers use the work breaks to suck out the breastmilk and stored, midday, evening, back home to the baby as the afternoon or the next day’s “rations! “So some mothers use their work breaks to suck out breast milk and store it, carrying it home at noon and in the evening for the baby’s afternoon or next day’s “ration”. Every day, there are new mothers joining the breastfeeding army and starting the hard journey of breastfeeding. In the process of breastfeeding, they are not afraid of hardship, but the most fearful thing is that the breastmilk that they have worked so hard to pump out will be spoiled due to improper storage. So what are the rules for storing, thawing and heating breastmilk? How to store breastmilk safely and scientifically? You can do this: Store breastmilk expressed by breast pump or by hand in sterilized bottles or special milk storage bags, then seal them immediately and mark the date and time of milk collection on the bottles, so that when you reheat it for your baby to eat, you can do it in a way that “what you sucked out first, you eat first”. At room temperature (27 ℃ -32 ℃), breast milk can be stored for 4 hours; at room temperature (16 ℃ -26 ℃), breast milk can be stored for 4-8 hours (optimal: 3-4 hours); in the refrigerator at 0 ℃ -4 ℃ below the refrigerator, (fresh milk) can be stored for 72 hours; thawed milk can be stored for 24 hours; in the -18 ℃ freezer frozen, can be stored for 6 months. The higher the temperature of your environment, the shorter the time you can store your breastmilk. Now that the temperature is getting higher day by day, breastfeeding moms would better put the breastmilk they pumped out into the refrigerator in time to freeze it. If you don’t have a refrigerator at your workplace, you can buy a portable ice pack with heat preservation and refrigeration function to store breastmilk temporarily, and then put it into the refrigerator to refrigerate or freeze it immediately after you get home. In addition, frozen breastmilk must be thawed and heated properly before giving it to your baby. After taking the whole bottle or bag of frozen breastmilk out of the freezer (usually around -18℃ to -20℃), you can place it in the freezer (usually around 4℃) first, thaw it out, and then slowly heat it up to the right temperature by using a breastmilk warmer. The use of microwave oven is not recommended for the heating process, as the heat is not uniform, and the high temperature of localized milk may scald the child, while the other part of the milk may still be cold. In addition, microwave heating will destroy the nutrients of breastmilk. Of course, you can also put the whole bottle or bag of refrigerated breastmilk in 40 ℃ – 50 ℃ of hot water and let it warm up naturally to about 37 ℃, because the human body’s temperature is so, the baby directly sucking breastmilk is also this temperature. It should be reminded that heated breastmilk should be discarded immediately if it is not finished, so as not to affect the quality of breastmilk by secondary storage. In the process of breastfeeding, many mothers are most distressed that breast milk day by day less and less until there is no. In fact, and the opening of the milk to let the baby suckle diligently, backbreastfeeding mothers to maintain the amount of breastmilk, the best way is to work diligently with a breast pump or hand milking, after work and at home on weekends to let the baby eat more milk. The reason why many breastfeeding mothers have less and less breastmilk is that they are busy at work or lazy, which leads to less and less breastfeeding and milking every day. So here is the suggestion, work back breastfeeding, it is best to milk every three or four hours, feel the milk rise should also be timely milk. In addition, the night should also insist on milking once, because the night prolactin secretion is more, and the baby milk interval is longer, and even some babies do not need to eat the milk all night, timely milking empty breasts, not only can give the baby more storage some breast milk, but also help to stimulate the breast lactation, to maintain the amount of milk. I hope that today’s explanation can be helpful to moms who still insist on breastfeeding after work.