Breastfeeding Milk Trays collection/storage for Breast Milk

Milk Trays™ are an easier, safer and more economical product for mums wanting to store and freeze their breast milk. Milk Trays™ are made from a medical grade, US FDA approved plastic.

Notable attributes are:

• 8 semi-cylinder cavities that equal 1 oz. each
• 1 oz. Milk Sticks™ are universal to ALL bottle openings
• Lids to block out freezer burn, eliminate freezer smells and easy to stack
• Slim in size to ensure ample room in freezer
• Withstands temperatures 40° to 212°
  
  Milk Trays™ give breastfeeding mothers the confidence of knowing that none of their breast milk will be wasted. Pumping requires patience and dedication! Freezing breast milk in single ounce servings allows for caregivers to make each bottle to order. Because Milk Trays™ are made from hard plastic, they never leak or spill, and exclusive pumping mothers will know that all their essential nutrients are getting to their babies!
  
  Mothers want to come home and breastfeed their babies, not worry about what milk is still awaiting use in their refrigerators! Because of Milk Trays™ patent pending design each 1 oz. Milk Sticks™ will fit into ALL baby bottles on the market. Nurser bags are a continued cost to mothers and the limitations are endless. Milk Trays™ allows mothers to freeze their breast milk, then remove the 1 oz. Milk Sticks™ from the trays and store them into a heavy duty freezer Zip Lock bag, where several ounces at one time can be stored. This will give mothers more room in a already limited spaced freezer! Since the 1 oz. Milk Sticks™ are already frozen they remain separate in the Zip Lock bag and care givers can remove each Milk Sticks™ individually. This way allows you to make each bottle for the baby to order.
  
  Care givers (dads, grandparents, family members, day-cares, etc) will place several Milk Sticks™ into the bottle and melt on the stove or in a bottle warmer and serve. The amount of Milk Sticks™ depends on the amount of ounces needed or wanted
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Breast Milk Storage Advice 

La Leche League International guidelines for storing pumped milk

Your milk is a living substance so precious some call it "white blood". It is essential to store your expressed (pumped) milk properly to maximize its nutritional and anti-infective qualities. Human milk actually has anti-bacterial properties that help it to stay fresh. Giving your baby the freshest milk you have pumped ensures its high quality.

This information is based on current research and applies to mothers who:

• have healthy, full-term babies;
• are storing their milk for home use (as opposed to hospital use);
• wash their hands before expressing;
• use containers that have been washed in hot, soapy water and rinsed.
• All milk should be dated before storing.
  
  Storage Guidelines
  
  Storing milk in 2-4 ounce amounts may reduce waste. Refrigerated milk has more anti-infective properties than frozen milk. Cool milk in refrigerator before adding to frozen milk.
  
  Human milk can be stored
  
  
• at room temperature (66-72°F, 19-22°C) for up to 10 hours
• in a refrigerator (32-39°F, 0-4°C) for up to 8 days
• in a freezer compartment inside a refrigerator (variable temperature due to the door opening frequently) for up to 2 weeks
• in a freezer compartment with a separate door (variable temperature due to the door opening frequently) for up to 3 to 4 months.
• in a separate deep freeze (0°F, -19°C) for up to 6 months or longer.
  
  What Type of Container to Use
  
  Refrigerated or frozen milk may be stored in:
  
  
• hard-sided plastic or glass containers with well-fitting tops
• freezer milk bags that are designed for storing human milk
  
  Disposable bottle liners are not recommended.
  
  How to Warm the Milk
  
  Thaw and/or heat under warm, running water.
  
  Do not bring temperature of milk to boiling point.
  
  Gently swirl milk before testing the temperature. Swirling will also redistribute the cream into the milk. (It is normal for stored milk to separate into a cream and milk layer.)
  
  Do not use a microwave oven to heat human milk.
  
  Thawed Milk
  
  If milk has been frozen and thawed, it can be refrigerated for up to 24 hours for later use. It should not be refrozen. It is not known whether milk that is left in the bottle after a feeding can be safely kept until the next feeding or if it should be discarded.
  
  According to THE BREASTFEEDING ANSWER BOOK, page 228, research indicates that human milk has previously unrecognized properties that protect it from bacterial contamination. One study, Barger and Bull 1987, found that there was no statistically significant difference between the bacterial levels of milk stored for 10 hours at room temperature and milk that had been refrigerated for 10 hours. Another study, Pardou 1994, found that after 8 days of refrigeration some of the milk actually had lower bacterial levels than it did on the day it was expressed.
  
  Expressed milk can be kept in a common refrigerator at the workplace or in a day care center. The US Centers for Disease Control and the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration agree that human milk is not among the body fluids that require special handling or storage in a separate container.