My DD is 7 months old, exclusively breastmilk fed. I work 3 days a week, nights, so when I do work she will get bottles at the sitters the day before, and then at home during the night when I work, and up until 2 pm the next day if I am off that night. So, she gets her fair share of expressed breastmilk when I work. When I'm with her i nurse.
I have had great supply so far, and by 6 months I had frozen 1000 ounces of ebm. Until 6 months she was only getting fresh ebm when I was away. At 6 months I stopped pumping as much so over the past few weeks my supply has dropped, which is fine considering I have so much frozen. Well now that my supply has dropped she is getting some fresh ebm, but is now also getting a lot of frozen. After a few days in denial, I think I have came to the conclusion that I have excess lipase in my BM. It smells a little soapy fresh from the fridge but nothing awful. But every single bag we have de-thawed just smells gross. Almost cardboard like, metallic, and sour. Omg I am devastated. If it doesn't smell sour we will try to give it, sometimes she will take it but you can tell she doesn't like it as much. Other times she will throw up. last night we went through probably 24 ounces to find a bag that didn't smell awful :-( :-(. I wanted so badly for her to only get breastmilk, who knows how many hours I have sat and pumped to get all that breastmilk, for it to all go to waste and me have to give her formula anyways. I am so upset about it. FF is fine, just not something I was interested in. And now that I have 1000 oz of breastmilk frozen I am having a hard time coming to terms with not being able to use any of it. Please, advice? I am so upset.
