It was a sad day at our house; well at least to me it was sad. We had to clean out the deep freeze in anticipation of a half side of beef and that meant throwing away (gasp, yes, throwing away) my frozen breastmilk stash. This was extra milk that I stored just in case something happened to my milk supply and Reagan needed it.
Notice all the breastmilk in the bottom and middle shelves?
I’d stopped saving breastmilk quite a while ago, probably back in February or March because Reagan was old enough to not need the extra and I was still producing more than enough fresh milk for her. I kept thinking about donating it, but I wasn’t sure exactly how or where to do this, so it sat. And sat. And sat. And now most of it is over a year old – way past it’s expiration – and it was time to throw it out. 
Luckily I had a great little helper who emptied almost the entire bottom shelf by herself! I got the middle shelf and she did the bottom one!
Reagan helping Mommy empty the breastmilk out of the deep freeze.
It felt pretty sad to see so much milk go to waste and now I also wish I would have taken the time to mark down just how much I had saved. Each bag was anywhere from 4-6 oz and let me tell you there were a LOT of bags, at least 50-75, which means even a low estimate of 4oz X 50 bags would be 200oz of breastmilk that I’d saved! What a waste and if I was able to do it again I would definitely make an effort to find some place (or someone) to donate it to. Just check out my healthy, sturdy (aka she was a chunky monkey when she was an infant), amazingly intelligent baby girl girl… obviously I make some pretty top of the line Momma milk! 
Empty deep freeze all ready for some beef!!
