Frozen breast milk smells funny

[kanga]

I have a ton of breast milk in the freezer but it smells funny once defrosted. Would you feed it to your baby or dump it? Seems such a waste as I have a ton and the milk bank won't take it as I was on medication when it was pumped

 

[sheldonsmommy]

Milk can take on a funny smell once frozen but still be fine to drink. Have you tasted it? If it's bad it will taste sour like cow's milk does when it goes bad. Do you freeze it right after you pump it?

 

[mamaofthree]

My frozen milk always smells like sick, yuk! Little man still drinks it I have no insight as to why it happens, but it seems fairly common. x

 

[susannah14]

Yeah my thawed milk smells TERRIBLE, but my son still drinks it. I don't know how he does, just a whiff and I want to gag.

If your babe drinks it, then it's fine.

 

[missbabes]

Agree that it's perfectly normal. DS has no trouble drinking my soapy smelling defrosted milk, it might make my stomach turn from the smell of it but he still loves it