YoU cAn JuSt MaKe MoRe….

I went with my bf’s family away for the Christmas holiday. It was a long trip(I do NOT KNOW how people travel so often. It’s such a hassle) but I was SO glad to be home. I made sure to freeze any pumped milk I had in the fridge so there was none to give the baby and he was fussy and hungry. I defrosted a bag, getting ready to feed little man.

But I always taste test it for temperature. The taste and smell was COMPLETELY OFF. Thinking nothing of it, I grabbed another bag. Same thing as the last bag. He had to wait for a bit while I pumped fresh milk which made it easy to compare the two….the frozen milk had gone bad.

But HOW? It’s in the freezer and I made sure the freezers were closed before I left the house. I had put the bags of milk in ziplock bags(10-11 milk bags per ziplock) and tried one from every ziplock bag. All tasted the same: spoiled.

Turns out there was a power outage on my side of the apartment building while I was gone. All 29 ziplock bags of milk had gone bad, some of which was supposed to be donated to the local milk bank because I was running out of freezer space and didn’t want to have to resort to throwing out milk. 4 months of pumping, 29 ziplocks, 10-11 bags of milk, 5oz each…over 1500 ounces of breast milk gone.

I tried to go to my bf for support because I was in denial. There’s no way ALL of them could be spoiled right? He says “oh, you can just make more right?”

This is a bit of a rant but please be nice