Can Freshly Expressed Milk Mix With Refrigerated or Frozen Milk?
I don’t encourage you to do that. If you have to, offer the baby with the thawed refrigerated or frozen milk first, then only the fresh one. Do not directly mix the 2 types of milk together in one bottle. The mixed breast milk can’t be kept again if the baby can’t finish it. Do not also mix the frozen and fresh breast milk and then put back to the freezer again. The top part of the frozen breast milk will thaw when the fresh milk is poured onto it. The entire bottle of breast milk can be damaged. Thawing Frozen Breast Milk For next day feeding, I would transfer the frozen milk from the freezer to the refrigerator the previous night. The frozen milk will slowly melt away the next day. For immediate feeding, then run the bottle under running tab water and shake the bottle a little to help speed up the thawing process. Once the milk is completely thawed, put the bottle in a cup of warm water to warm up the milk. This process may have to repeat several times as the warm water can be cooled
