Adding Vanilla To Breast Milk With High Lipase
We all know breast milk is liquid gold and every drop counts.
Does your breast milk have high lipase and baby won’t drink your pumped milk?
You probably spent countless hours pumping and it’d be terrible to see that go to waste.
What if you don’t have to throw it out? What if there was a way to actually get baby to drink the milk in your freezer stash?
Enter: vanilla extract!
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Having high lipase milk doesn’t affect the nutritive properties of breast milk, but it leads to a soapy, sour, metallic taste and smell that babies often don’t like.
If your baby is over 6 months old, you may add drops of alcohol-free vanilla flavoring to improve the taste and hopefully get baby to accept the milk.
Disclaimer: Ask your baby’s healthcare provider before adding vanilla to your breast milk, especially if baby is under 6 months old.
NOTE: Any pure vanilla extract is made with alcohol (even the non-alcoholic pure vanilla extract has a small amount of alcohol in it). Instead, use vanilla flavoring.
Pros of adding vanilla to high-lipase breast milk:
Offsets taste and smell of breast milk tainted by high-lipase
Requires less effort than scalding
Keeps antibodies present (scalding inhibits many of the immunological active factors of breast milk)
How To Add Vanilla To Breast Milk With High Lipase
Many moms had success adding 1-2 drops per ounce of breast milk.
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