Mums, how do you deal with FBM rejection? My LO does not like fbm - she howls and screams everytime I feed it to her

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To add on to what Chin Yin has mentioned, sometimes the taste of the milk would change due to the storing process. For example, there may be excess lipase in the milk due to the storing and causes the frozen milk to taste soapy after being thawed. The way to go about this is to scald the express milk first before freezing (you can refer to this blog post on how to scald the milk: http://simplyrebekah.com/2010/05/03/excess-lipase-scalding-breast-milk/). You can also refer to this article to help identify if it was any of the storage procedure that may have caused the change in taste (assuming that your frozen breast milk did tasted different to your baby). http://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/milkstorage/lipase-expressedmilk/

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