Crying Over Spoilt Milk

In preparation for tomorrow, I thawed and checked some frozen breast milk.

Oh my God!

BLECH!!!!

First I tested the oldest and it was just "off" all around.

Shrike & I both tasted it (You got a problem with that?) and I gagged.

Tested some of the "new"est (from early December) and it at least smelled funky, maybe didn't taste right either.

Not exactly sour (the old stuff sort of was) but . . . freezery?

So.

I'm assuming everything in between is nasty too.

That's a LOT of milk to toss, but I'm certainly not feeding it to her.

Shit.

Shit.

Shit.

But I am so glad I checked it, and I'm glad we're not the type to be grossed out about tasting it, or we wouldn't have known.

(We had actually both tasted some quite early on - in the hospital, in fact - out of curiousity. We were surprised how sweet it is. No wonder babies like it.)

We also checked a fresh sample today, to compare back-to-back.

No comparison.

The frozen stuff is definitely no good.

Sidebar
On a lighter note, right after this happened, I was typing an email to DoulaK, telling her essentially what I just said above, when Shrike walked by, stopped and looked at me really funny.

I wondered why for a moment, then realized that, as I was typing, I was making sour-milk faces!

Without saying a word, we both just burst out laughing.

So, now I will definitely have to pump before Peeper can have a bottle.

We've postponed the first one a bit until we can get the pump stuff cleaned really well because the collection bottles are kind of yucky, too.

Also, because I'm a nut, it's postponed until at least past Sunday afternoon, so it will be a full nine weeks since her last bottle.

So, just how bad is this whole milk tossing thing?

134 ounces - just over a gallon


Peeper's none too happy about it either