Storing Your Breast Milk; Feeding Your Baby Your Expressed Breast Milk - Philips AVENT BPA-Free Manual Del Usuario

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Do not continue pumping for more than 5 minutes at a time if NO
result is achieved. Try expressing at another time during the day.
Please remember that, should the process become very painful or
uncomfortable, you should stop using the pump and consult your health
care professional or breastfeeding advisor.
9) While some women may prefer to use the pump without the Let-down
Massage Cushion, extensive trials show that, in most cases, the massaging
effect of the petals flexing in and out around the areola stimulates the let-
down reflex and allows you to express more milk, faster.
10) On average you will need to pump for 10 minutes to express 2-4oz or
60-125ml. However, this is just a guide and varies from woman to woman.
If you find that you regularly express more than 4oz/125ml per session,
please use a 9oz/260ml AVENT Feeding Bottle or 8oz/240ml VIA Cup.
Do not overfill AVENT Feeding Bottles or VIA Cups and keep upright,
otherwise milk may leak from below the pump body.

10. Storing your breast milk

• Breast milk can be stored in the fridge
or freezer in either sterile breast milk
containers (AVENT bottles fitted with
sealing discs) or in VIA Cups with Lids.
• Only milk collected with a sterile pump
should be stored and fed to your baby.
• Expressed milk should be refrigerated immediately.
• Expressed breast milk can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours (not in
the door), the freezer for up to 3 months or 6 months in a zero-degree freezer.
• If you are storing milk in the fridge to add to during the day, only add milk
which has been expressed into a sterile container. Milk can only be kept
like this for a maximum of 24 hours (from first expression) after which it
must be used immediately or frozen for future use.
• For products other than breast milk make feeds up fresh when needed,
following the manufacturer's instructions.
Storing your milk in the fridge
If your expressed breast milk will be fed to your baby within 24 hours,
it can be stored in the fridge (not in the door) in an assembled AVENT
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Feeding Bottle or VIA Nurser. Assemble a sterilized nipple, screw ring
and dome cap and attach onto the body of the AVENT Bottle or the VIA
Adaptor and Cup (see below).
Storing your milk in the freezer
To store in the freezer, use an AVENT Sealing Disc in place of the nipple
and dome cap or use a sterilized VIA Lid to seal the VIA Cup. The storage
containers should be clearly labelled with the date and time of expression
and older milk used up first.
NEVER refreeze breast milk. DO NOT add fresh breast milk to already frozen
milk. ALWAYS discard any milk that is left over at the end of a feed.
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Feeding your baby your expressed breast milk

I f breast milk has been stored in an AVENT Breast Milk
Container, replace the sealing disc with a sterilized
AVENT Nipple.
Alternatively replace the VIA Lid with a sterilized VIA
Adaptor, screw ring, dome cap and AVENT Nipple.
Frozen breast milk should be defrosted overnight in the refrigerator.
However, in an emergency, it can be defrosted in a jug of hot water.
Once thawed use within 24 hours.
Breast milk can be heated in the same way as any other bottle feed.
Stand the AVENT Feeding Bottle or VIA Nurser in a bowl of hot water, or
alternatively, for a safe and fast way to warm feeds, use the Philips AVENT
Bottle and Baby Food Warmer. IMPORTANT! Milk or food will heat faster in
AVENT VIA Cups than in standard feeding bottles/containers. Always check
milk or food temperature before feeding.
Never heat milk in a microwave as this may destroy valuable nutrients
and antibodies. In addition, the uneven heating may cause hot spots
in the liquid which could cause burns to the throat.
Never immerse a frozen milk container or VIA Cup in boiling water as
this may cause it to crack/split.
Never put boiling water directly into a VIA Cup, allow to cool for around
20 minutes before filling.
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