by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting

Does your nursling refuse to drink thawed breast milk from a bottle" If so, then you're definitely going to want to read this.
Mom of two Michelle Kraft is spreading awareness for an issue that makes bottle-feeding breastfed babies nearly impossible. She originally shared her story on the Breastfeeding Mama Talk Facebook page, where it quickly gained momentum.
"When my baby refused a bottle of breastmilk thawed from the freezer, but would eat freshly pumped breastmilk with no problem, I contacted my lactation consultant to see if there was a reason this was happening," Kraft wrote, of her then-3-month-old son, Waylon. "And there was!"
The Bethel, Missouri mom learned that she produces excess lipase -- an enzyme that breaks down the fats in breast milk. Too much lipase breaks down the fat more rapidly, which can make milk taste sour or soapy when frozen and then thawed. Sure enough, a taste test of her own proved this was the case; the frozen milk tasted soapy and the freshly-pumped milk was sweet. The excess lipase milk is safe to eat, but some babies refuse it because of its altered taste. Before freezing it, Kraft now has to scald her breast milk on a stove to stop this process. "It was definitely trial-and-error," she told BabyCenter. "I scalded some of my freshly pumped milk, let it cool, and froze it. After a week, I thawed it out and tasted it myself and it was still sweet with no soap...