The Importance of Giving Labels Breast Milk on Dairy milk containers
Mom need discipline in store dairy milk (Asip) in a safe container in the refrigerator or freezer. One of them by always giving the label on the bottle or other container Asip. If forgotten, Asip which could have been saved a long time is wasted because the already stale.
Write the day and date milked or pumped breast milk on the label affixed on the container Asip. This mode allows the mother to choose and sort stocks Asip stored in the refrigerator or freezer. Especially if you keep fresh milk in the freezer is safe to use up to one year. If you do not write the day and date when flushed milk, you easily forget it?
Asip label on the container is only one way to save the mother’s milk. Some other things you need to consider, such as:
- Before you put into the freezer, should Asip first cooled in the refrigerator. So do not directly save Asip in the freezer to avoid drastic temperature changes.
- We recommend that you save as much as 60 Asip -120 ml per bottle or other container such as plastic bags Asip special. Restrictions of this measure is adjusted to the needs of breastfeeding infants. Included also to avoid wastage milk, because not consumed by the baby out.
- If enable, use Asip which is still stored in the refrigerator rather than frozen Asip already in the freezer. Asip in the freezer is more durable and can be a stock of breast milk a few months into the future. In addition, use of freezer Asip takes more time. Because you need to move Asip from freezer to refrigerator, to melt for 12 hours. The rule, avoid too drastic changes in temperature to Asip quality is maintained.
- Asip of the few times a dairy or a pump may be stored in a container. This mode makes it easy for you who do not have much breast milk storage containers. But you should consider again Asip storage method.
In addition to the above ways, also make sure you always wash your hands before flushing or pumping breast milk. Hygiene and equipment should be maintained so that the quality of your breast milk is the best store without incurring germs.
To ensure that you keep awake Asip quality, wash Asip storage containers and breast pump equipment with hot water and soap. Observe correct washing instructions on the package of the product. Asip pump or container does not need to be sterilized are exaggerated. Sufficiently doused again with boiled water.
Source: Nursing Mothers Association of Indonesia (AIMI)