Numbering bottles

[Anonymous]

I put the date I pumped on my bags of milk when I freeze them and give them frozen to my provider. She thaws and makes the bottles (which I leave with her and she washes), working from oldest to newest. That's her preference and it makes my life a lot easier.

[Anonymous]

We do this all the time. I number the bottles and when I stock the fridge at daycare in the morning I always put #1 first, #2 second, etc. I've never had a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so glad my daycare just takes my milk in bags and figures it out from there. She has three bottles, she deals with it. So much less to worry about!!

It's really not a big deal. It's a piece of tape with a number written on it.

[Anonymous]

Let me clarify: when a center like a Bright Horizons wants the bottles dated, that is the date the bottle arrives and should be consumed at childcare. They are only allowed to give bottles dated with today's date to the infants. All bottles need to go home every single night. Whether you bring a bottle back to school that was at school the day before we don't know, don't care, just put a new date on it. Our licensor will check that the bottles have dates on them, and they better be today's date or we're cited.

When you pumped the bottles, when you froze then defrosted isn't the issue - of course you pumped the bottles and froze them days or weeks ago or put in fridge a few days ago - it's that all bottles brought in today, needs to be consumed today or taken home.

The refrigerators in an infant room are usually the smaller ones, and don't keep the milk as cold as a regular large fridge, so they can't be stored there.