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Original Protocol March 2004; Revision #1 March 2010

The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol Committee

Background

Breastfeeding mothers may encounter unforeseen reasons for separation from their infants, but more often women need to express and store milk for planned events, lifestyle flexibility, and returning to work. Knowledge of appropriate human milk handling and storage is essential for breastfeeding success.

Human milk is a fresh, living food with many antioxidant, antibacterial, prebiotic, probiotic, and immune-boosting properties in addition to nutrients. Although some of these nutrients and health properties change with storage, there is good evidence that human milk storage can be safe, allowing provision of optimal nutrition to the child when nursing or immediately expressed milk is not available. Stored human milk maintains its unique qualities such that it continues to be the gold standard for infant feeding, superior to artificial feeding.

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