Storage and handling of Bmilk?

[firsttimemom]

Hi TST mum,

Just read your reply that you said avent bottle, so it is not the cap with blue cover? if i buy a bottle, it can fit into the isis pump? thanks.

 

[Koan]

Re #2, it's fine, even milk pumped on different days so long as you use it by the earliest expiry date, ie. that of the milk pumped first.

Check out kellymom.com :: Links: Breastmilk Storage & Handling

 

[Pekkie]

Just to share that I read it's best to use BPA-free bottles when thawing/reheating milk in feeding bottles.

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mchatf/documents/bpafactsheet.pdf

I think the Avent cups with blue lids (VIA storage) is BPA-free while the normal Avent bottles (transparent type) is not BPA-free.

 

[firsttimemom]

Just to share that I read it's best to use BPA-free bottles when thawing/reheating milk in feeding bottles.

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mchatf/documents/bpafactsheet.pdf

I think the Avent cups with blue lids (VIA storage) is BPA-free while the normal Avent bottles (transparent type) is not BPA-free.

Thanks for the link. The cups with blue lids can be use for 4 times only,
so it's not economical, i plan to buy the avent bottles, i didn't know they don't have BPA safe one.

 

[tstmum]

Hi TST mum,

Just read your reply that you said avent bottle, so it is not the cap with blue cover? if i buy a bottle, it can fit into the isis pump? thanks.

Yes, I just used a regular Avent bottle which fitted onto the Isis pump and used the same bottle to feed the EBM. I actually don't know what you mean by the cup with the blue cover? My pump came with a couple of Avent bottles and teats, I don't recall any other cups.

 

[firsttimemom]

Yes, I just used a regular Avent bottle which fitted onto the Isis pump and used the same bottle to feed the EBM. I actually don't know what you mean by the cup with the blue cover? My pump came with a couple of Avent bottles and teats, I don't recall any other cups.

There are 5 cups with blue cover inside the box, it's where you store the ebm. Maybe it's a different model. Mine doesn't come with bottle so i didn't know i can connect it to the pump. I'm going out now to buy the avent bottle. Thanks.

 

[nicolejoy]

Avent does now make a BPA free bottle. I saw it at Mothercare in Lee Gardens a week ago.

The Avent Isis pump has two "systems" - one comes with the via storage system (cups with blue lids), the other comes with 2 regular non-BPA free bottles. But I think that all the Avent stuff fits together.

 

[miriam228]

Hi,

Do we need to sterilize the bmilk storage plastic bags pls? I read from somewhere that some mommies used normal "ziplock" storage bags instead of bmilk storage bags. Do those need to be sterilized too? Wouldn't plastics bags melt at such temperature??

 

[tstmum]

nicolejoy - thanks for clarifying that there are two Avent Isis pump "systems"

Crystal88 - I hope getting the Avent bottles simplifies things for you!

miriam228 - the Lansinoh storage bags did not need to be sterilized before use, so I expect this would be the same for any other BM storage bags.

 

[miriam228]

Thanks, TSTMUM.