Treatment for a princess

At Wednesday morning 2am, I discovered that our rented fridge had broken down. All the milk in the freezer were already defrosting!


As any lactating mother would understand, this equated tragedy! :( The milk had to be used up in 12-24 hours, after that it is considered not fit for baby's consumption. Hours and hours of pumping effort, hours and hours of lost time... accumulated from 21 Jul-10 Aug. Well, no point crying over to-be-spoilt milk.


The next morning, I called up the fridge rental and arranged for repair guy to come in. I then called Adventist lactation nurse who advised me to go with the 12 hours guideline as it was not known when exactly the fridge stopped working. So I called friends and colleagues who had babies and offered to donate my milk. I also called Pantai Hospital which was the closest hospital to donate my milk, but gave up the initiative after they put me on hold/transfer/phone line disconnect.



Here was how I disposed off the milk (TOTAL ~260 oz)

- 25oz for Shanna's consumption on that day itself.

- 70-80oz for my colleague's baby & nephew

- Remaining 160oz or 4.7 litres (!!) was used to bathe Shanna (according to lactation nurse's advise).


A milk bath for our little princess... I joked with hubby saying both of us never had such luxurious treatment ourselves.


At home after work, we prepared the bath by heating up all the milk. Our soup pot was used for this purpose, and it took us 2 rounds of heating to get all the milk heated up.

1st pot of milk heating up

When the bath was ready, our little princess Shanna was lowered into the water... I mean, milk. She was super excited!!! She kicked and splashed in the milk :) After the bath, her skin was very soft but she smelled of milk, and eventually, I couldn't tolerate the milk smell in her hair, and I gave her head a wipe with water.

Lots of milk

Happy Shanna literally 'swimming' in milk :)

I'm glad Shanna enjoyed her milk bath. However, I still prefer the milk to end up in her tummy rather than in her bath.

The broken fridge was replaced later with another fridge. As I would not want to take the risk of losing all my milk again with this fridge breaking down, I requested for a back up fridge to be left in my apartment... the fridge renter complied. Now we have total of 3 fridges in our little apartment...

~ Audrey