u/Charcuti

Colostrum Storage

Hi all! So I’ve been very lucky to be able to overproduce colostrum before my baby is born in about a week or so. I’m averaging anywhere between 6-9ml with a manual pump and 9-13ml with an electric pump nightly. We currently have almost 100ml stock piled since I started pumping at 37 weeks!

This being said, we’re struggling to store all of it! I’ve been using hospital grade sterile 1ml syringes to store what I’ve pumped in a deep freezer, but I was wondering, instead of buying more syringes (they’re not super cheap!), is there a way to bulk store it in a way that doesn’t use the syringes? If the syringes are the only way to do it that’s 100% okay, but I’m just curious if there’s a more cost effective way that anyone else has used?

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u/Charcuti — 14 days ago