New parents are always looking for someone to help them with childcare. Also, they are wondering on how to nurture their babies with the best resources possible. When it comes to nurturing, feeding babies is the common thing that all parents have to do.
Secondly, breastfeeding is a new experience for all new moms. It has a lot of new things to learn and do them simultaneously. Warming the breast milk that is frozen in the milk bags to defrost them is a question mark for new mothers.
In this guide, I will tell you complete way of defrosting breast milk stored in milk bags in a bottle warmer. You can follow the same process of doing this with this ultimate guide. Let’s start.
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Defrost Breast Milk Bags in Bottle Warmer
Using traditional bottle warmers could be very alarming when it comes to the nutrition facts of your baby's milk. It can damage the proteins in the milk due to extreme heat that is offered by steam particles by those warmers.
For the Modern bottle warmers which have both options available for temperature setting, you can manually adjust the temperature for your warmer. In this method, you will be stress-free about over heating your milk. Have Safe milk defrosting using these warmers.
3 Simple Methods to Thaw Frozen Breast Milk
Method 1: Using the Fridge
The fridge method is on the top of the list when it comes to thaw frozen breast milk. When you know you will need milk in the morning. Simply, shift your milk bag from the freezer to the fridge in your home refrigerator. It will take almost 12 hours to turn to a liquid state from the icy milk.
Method 2: Warm Water
The second most commonly used method is the usage of warm water. In this way, you can easily defrost breast milk bags. You simply need to hold your milk bag under the warm tap water whether you are using a geyser or an automatic tap for warming water.
For Safety, you can gradually increase the water temperature of your water from low to high.
Method 3: Warm water bowl
Next to the tap water, you also have a choice of using a bowl of warm water and then putting your frozen milk bag in it for a couple of minutes. In a few minutes, the water will turn from a frozen to a liquid state. It is my simple and go-to method for most of times during baby feeding.
FAQ
Can you put back defrosted milk in your freezer?
Just after defrosting baby milk, you have to wait for the milk to turn to normal room temperature or keep it in the room for 3 to 4 hours. After that, you can put that milk again in the refrigerator.
Is it harmful to feed your baby fold breast milk?
To be honest it is not harmful to feed your baby cold milk but most babies are prone to take warm milk. The milk should not be coldest or colder but it should make sense a little cold milk that is good to go without any precautionary measures.
Wrapping Up!
You are now aware of all the care and precautions related to feeding defrosted milk to your babies. Furthermore, you have learned how to defrost breast milk bags in your bottle warmer safely. Next to it, I have covered all the nutritional facts about milk. If you have more information related to it or any questions in your mind, feel free to comment below. I would love to help out regarding that topic. Have Happy baby Feeding all moms!