Patient's question:
Due to engorgement and the baby not eating much, I expressed the milk. Can breast milk expressed on the same day be stored together?Doctor's answer:
Different times of expressed breast milk can be combined. If you have expressed a large amount of breast milk, you can mix the milk that was expressed around the same time. The most common practice is to add the milk expressed on Tuesday to the milk expressed on Monday. If the first expressed milk has already been frozen, it is essential to cool the later expressed milk before adding it to the first expressed milk. In other words, if you express 30 milliliters of breast milk, you should let it cool first before adding it to the frozen breast milk.