How long can you keep the milk at room temperature?

When mothers are breastfeeding, their babies have plenty of breast milk, but some mothers have to return to work after breastfeeding, and feeding their babies becomes a problem. Babies are usually taken care of by their families, so mothers can safely use a manual breast pump to extract breast milk and store it for their babies. This is also good for the baby, and the nutrition can still keep up. So how long can the milk be kept at room temperature?

1. How long can the milk extracted by a manual breast pump be kept at room temperature?

The milk sucked out by a manual breast pump should be stored separately at room temperature, which is now 2 to 3 hours. If stored in the refrigerator, it can be stored for 8 hours. They should be stored separately. If there is no refrigerator, they can be stored in cold water for 4 to 5 hours. The storage time of milk at room temperature is: 1. Colostrum: For colostrum (that is, milk squeezed within 6 days after giving birth), it can be stored for 12 hours at room temperature of 27-32℃. 2. Perfected milk: Perfected milk (that is, milk squeezed 6 days after giving birth) can be stored for 24 hours at 15°C, 10 hours at 19-22°C, and 6 hours at 25°C.

Some pregnant women have more milk, and the baby cannot drink it all at once or cannot feed the baby on time due to special reasons. You can use a manual breast pump to suck out the milk, store it in a sterilized glass bottle, and freeze it in the refrigerator. It can usually be consumed within 24 hours. The milk should not be left for too long to prevent it from getting moldy. If you want to consume frozen milk, you can put the glass bottle in a bowl filled with boiling water to warm it up, or warm it moderately in a microwave oven. You can consume it when the milk is hot.

How to warm up stored milk: Whether it is frozen milk or refrigerated milk, there are problems with storage and heating. Pediatric experts recommend that special containers, such as breast milk storage bags or milk storage cups, should be used to store milk. Each bag (bottle) of milk must be marked with the time it was pumped out, at least accurately to "morning" or "noon", so that when it is reheated for the baby to eat, it can be ensured that "the first one sucked out is the first one to be swallowed". It is important to pay attention to the heating of breast milk. If the method is incorrect, the nutrients in it will be destroyed. It is best not to use microwaves to heat breast milk. First, it is difficult to heat it evenly, and the baby is likely to eat "yang milk and yin milk". Second, many experts currently have different opinions on whether microwave heating will destroy vitamins. It is also not suitable to heat milk on the stove, because the temperature is too high and will destroy the nutrients.