Is colostrum safe kept in the freezer?

I collected a bit of colostrum on June 5’th, but my baby isn’t due until July 29’th. I don’t want to waste any milk/colostrum, but I want to make sure it’s safe still for baby to consume.

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Yeah the hospital gave me colostrum vitals at 35weeks to collect, freeze and bring into hospital on my day of labor

Should be fine!! just date them

be careful with collecting colostrum, you could end up inducing yourself by expressing! i’m being induced tuesday and im not even allowed to collect yet per doctors orders because im full term the day hes being induced 😭

Did you notice leaks before collecting? My baby is due July 13th and I don’t see any leaks 😕

afaik, some women might leak it and collection tubes are meant to just gather this leakage without “expressing”

it’s leaking by itself through my shirt so I just put a collector in my shirt, it doesn’t pump so I’m not actively trying to pump, I just don’t want the colostrum that leaks onto my shirt to be wasteful

yes that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m not actively trying to collect it, it’s just leaking. I just put a collector in my shirt and let it leak into the collector

I started leaking last week, before collecting.

i’m so jealous😭 i was leaking a little bit when i was dehydrated for some reason then as soon as i got fluids and started drinking 10x more water it stopped…like what!? 🤣 get all that liquid gold while you can! i’ve heard it can be frozen and used later

yes the colostrum can be saved in the freezer for up to a year. My daughter is due in eight weeks so that’s plenty of time to be saved and used, and that’s so weird because same. When I don’t drink water, I leak more colostrum, but when I’m drinking lots of water, I don’t leak colostrum. It’s so weird.

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