Giving baby expressed breast milk via bottle

Hi all,
My little boy had jaundice and hasn’t been able to latch on since. I’ve been exclusively pumping and giving breast milk via bottle.
I currently pump before/after every feed and have a decent supply.
We bag up the milk and store in the fridge, we then make up bottles for the day. We’re currently giving baby milk expressed 2/3 days ago.

How is everyone else feeding via expressed milk? Do you pump and bottle straight away? Do you store in the fridge and make up bottles as we do?

We are conscious of the fat settling and might change but worry about being able to pump on demand for him - any advice welcomed!!

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I’m always ahead on milk and put it in fridge I do the same give it a good shake before hand and take it out fridge so room temp

I put my pumped milk in the fridge and when my husband has the baby while I'm at work he feeds her the milk stored In the fridge, the only time I really pump and give it to her straight away is if we're on an outing as she doesn't really like nursing in public too many distractions and she can't lay comfortably. As for the fat I use milk bags and I just massage the fat that settles and then shake to make sure it's all combined for her. And any milk that we haven't used yet but coming up to the 4th day I freeze so that it doesn't go to waste, or use it in her bath water. My supply dropped when I returned to work so having milk stored in the fridge really helped me out.

I was exclusively pumping (also bc of jaundice originally) and would always be 2/3 days ahead! So I’d make bottles as needed. I would try to give 1-2 bottles of milk straight from my expressed. Now I’m breastfeeding 50% of the time. So he gets fresh then he gets 2-3 day old milk in fridge. (And I pump when he gets a bottle)

Then everything left over 3 feedings from pumping that day, I freeze. Luckily I have a decent oversupply so I’m about to stash.

Thanks everyone! Feel much more reassured knowing people are doing similar things to us. I also thought we had to freeze it straight away but if we can freeze it after being in the fridge, we can do that. Thanks! X

I pump about every 2h and store in milk storage bottles, I make those bottles to the amount that she takes so when it is feeding time I can just grab the oldest one (usually about 2 days old) and put it straight into the bottle warmer

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