Storing your Milk

You may want to express and store your milk for when you are away from your baby or when you go back to work. It is important that you learn the safest way to store and prepare previously frozen or chilled human milk for your baby. Check out the links below for more information on methods of expressing milk, how to keep it clean and label it, and considerations around preventing it from spoiling.

• HealthLinkBC - Information on safely storing breast milk, safe temperatures, freezing and thawing

• CDC: Proper storage and preparation of breastmilk