Heather asked me to share my story with you since we hope to assist out great deals of frustrated moms who have tried whatever else to get infant to take a bottle!
Having high levels of lipase in my breast milk wasn’t something I checked out about anywhere as well as was a bit blindsided. fortunately there are some excellent resources for nursing mothers out there: lactation specialists as well as the site kellymom.com. I consulted both as well as discovered what to do.
Finding Out I had High Lipase in My breast Milk
I’ve been pumping because my child Garrity was about 2 weeks old. I started since I had oversupply issues. Garrity was essentially choking on my milk, so at the tip of a lactation consultant, I would pump for a few minutes before every feeding. This assisted to empty out my boobs a little, so she wasn’t drinking from a terminate hydrant. since I was still on pregnancy leave as well as still 100% nursing, I started storing this pumped milk for emergencies.
When Garrity was 3 months old, I chose to pull out some frozen milk to test out a bottle — as well as it reeked! The milk smelled like strange soap, as well as I promptly disposed it out. perhaps I hadn’t frozen it properly or it was rotten? So I tried a couple much more frozen bags from my stash, however all of them smelled the exact same way. I was stumped as well as I had no concept what was going on, however there was no method I was going to provide this stinky milk to Garrity.
I discussed this to my lactation consultant, as well as she told me I most likely had high lipase in my milk. Lipase is an enzyme that breaks down the milk fat. having excess implies it breaks down quicker in my milk, which makes it smell. She stated the milk is fine. many infants don’t mind the moderate modification in taste as well as will typically drink it, however it freaked me out. I had a freezer of high-lipase breastmilk, as well as while I’d never really provided Garrity a bottle of it, I didn’t want to get stuck keeping that being her only option.
How to get Rid of the Lipase in Your Milk
There had to be some method I might do to get rid of the lipase. I discovered that there was nothing I might eat or drink to modification it before it came out of my body, however I might scald it after I pumped. What is scalding, you ask? It’s heating up the milk to inactivate the lipase as well as stop the process of fat digestion. essentially it would make the milk not odor however would make it somewhat less nutritious.
Learning that I had to add a new step to my feeding process was overwhelming. Pumping, nursing as well as now scalding!? however turns out it wasn’t that hard.
The process of Scalding breast Milk
Because I still was creating a ton of milk as well as hadn’t had to tap into my frozen stash, I chose to only scald the milk I pumped in the morning. Anything I pumped in the afternoon or evening I just didn’t have time to offer with. My theory being if Garrity truly hated my frozen milk, perhaps she’d be fine if I mixed in part of the scalded with it.
To scald the high lipase milk, you have to warm the milk to 180 degrees (on the stove, not in a microwave) as well as then great it. I checked out a great deal about this! Some women utilize thermometers to make sure they got it hot enough, however my lactation specialist told me just scald it up until bubbles begin to type around the edge of the pan.
Tip: There are methods to scald it in a bottle warmer. If you google exactly how to do this you will discover a ton of info.
Here is my process for scalding breastmilk:
Pump my milk as well as transfer it from the Medela bottles to a little saucepan. warm the milk up until bubbles developed around the edge of the pan.
Transfer the milk from the pan to a measuring cup with a spout. The spout is extremely essential since I didn’t want to spill any type of milk in the process of going back as well as forth between containers.
Pour milk from the measuring cup to an 8oz glass mason jar as well as put in the fridge. The milk needs to great before you freeze it. since this milk is hot I utilize a glass container. even when things state they are BPA-free, I am extremely anti-plastic as well as particularly anti-heated plastic.
Store cooled milk in the fridge up until I have time to transfer it to the freezer.
I like the Lansinoh breastmilk bags as well as store the milk in about 5-6 ounces, lay it flat to freeze in our kitchen area fridge as well as ultimately transfer it into our garage freezer.
Now that I am a few months in, excess lipase in my milk is truly no huge deal. numerous infants don’t have any type of problems with it so if yours doesn’t care, you may not even have to go with the scalding process.