Can breast milk storage bags be heated directly

Breast milk is refrigerated and warmed.

How long can a breast milk storage bag sit at room temperature?

Many women who are breastfeeding will have the phenomenon of engorgement, at this time, the mother will express the milk first, put it in a storage bag, and then feed it to the baby when the child is hungry. Many mothers who go to work will also use breast milk storage bags to store "rations" for their babies. So, how long does a breast milk storage bag last at room temperature?

After the mother squeezes the breast milk into the storage bag, if the colostrum of the eggplant is expressed within 6 days after giving birth, it can be stored at room temperature of 27-32 degrees for 12 hours, and it may spoil after more than 12 hours. If it is mature milk, it can be stored for 24 hours at room temperature 15 degrees. When the room temperature is 19-22 degrees, it can be stored for 10 hours, and if the room temperature is around 25, it can only be stored for 6 hours.

Nowadays, many mothers will put the breast milk in the storage bag into the refrigerator for preservation, so that the preservation time is relatively long. The refrigerator can be stored for 8 days at 0-4. If you put it in a freezer box next to the refrigerator, it can be stored for half a month.

If you use deep refrigeration, keep the refrigerator below 0 temperature, and do not open the door often, it can last for more than 6 months. However, breast milk that has been stored for a long time will decompose, and it will have some blue or yellow color, which is not spoiled, but normal.

When trying to feed the previously stored breastmilk to the baby, the mother will take the pouch directly from the fridge, but since it is cold, it must be heated first. However, some new mothers may encounter some problems when heating for the first time, such as can the milk storage bag be heated without water? There are also some mothers who want to let their children drink breast milk faster, and they are also worried that they will be exposed to bacteria and other belts when transferred to other containers, such as feeding bottles, and it is not very convenient, so they want to heat it directly, so can the breast milk storage bag be heated directly?

Let's take a look.

It is best not to directly heat the milk storage bag, but to pour out the breast milk in the milk storage bag in other containers, such as glass bottles to heat the water or heat with a bottle warmer, so that the temperature of breast milk heating can be more effectively controlled, and there is no worry that the plastic milk storage bag will emit harmful substances in the heating process, which will affect the nutrition of breast milk.

It is not recommended to directly heat the milk storage bag, because the milk storage bag is completely sealed, it is easy to expand after direct heating and the situation of frying and matching. In addition, heating directly in the stove or microwave oven is also easy to destroy the nutrients of breast milk, such as destroying the active ingredients in breast milk, so that the baby will not be able to supplement nutrition after drinking.

When heating the milk storage bag, it is necessary to pay attention to the method, if the heating method is not understood, the nutrients of the breast milk will be damaged, which is equivalent to saving it in vain.

The milk storage bag can be used directly, and the milk storage bag can be washed and used to hold some dry goods such as mushrooms and beans, after all, its sealing is still very good, and this kind of dry goods only need to be sealed and preserved.

Next, we will also introduce some tips for using milk storage bags to help babies and new mothers adapt to the days of milk storage and milk storage earlier, and avoid some common small mistakes.

1. 1-2 weeks before the new mother goes to work, start to give the baby a psychological "preventive injection", adjust and arrange the baby's breastfeeding time according to the new mother's work and rest time after work, and give the baby an adaptation process. If the workplace is close to home, you can feed before work, go home to feed once during the lunch break, and feed after work, plus several times at night to feed the wild milk, which can basically meet the needs of the baby; If you are far away from home, you can express breast milk in advance and store it, ask your family to feed it 1-2 times, and then feed it again when you get home in the evening.

2. The specific use of milk storage bags is as follows:

1) Pull along the fold curve of the upper end of the zipper closure.

2) Open the zipper closure and open the inlet to carefully inject breast milk. Breast milk is injected, and the air inside the bag is squeezed out, and the two layers of zipper are closed one by one.

3) When using breast milk, turn the storage bag containing breast milk upside down, cut it along the dotted line of the seal, control the storage amount of breast milk to less than 180ml, and pour the breast milk into the bottle. At the same time, carefully tear the shear curve, which can be handled with sterilizing shears.

3. Leave some gaps in the container for breast milk, do not fill it too much or cover the lid very tightly, so as to prevent the container from freezing and bursting. It is best to divide breast milk into small portions (60-120ml) and freeze or refrigerate it so that the family or babysitter can feed it according to the amount of food the baby eats, without wasting it, and label it with the date.

4. If you want to feed the baby the stored milk, you can first keep it in the refrigerator (2-4) for 24 hours, or rinse the sealed bag with cold water for preliminary thawing, when the baby needs to drink, thaw and rewarm breast milk with 38-39 warm water.