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Dawngloves-What did your LC learn at the "session"? Any helpful hints for effctively dissolving the Fortifier? I am currently wrinting a policy for "handling/storage "of EBM. I personally would love to change to some other product than HMF. Its very "user unfriendly"- messy and clumpy and its expensive. We are only a level 2 nursery so we're not dealing with the micro-premies. All of our kiddos are failrly stable. We have 24 cal SCF/ Neosure and Enf 24 cal. Does anyone know the ratio of how much of these products you add to EBM to produce 24 cal EBM?

linda smith is a very well known lactation consultant. she lectures and holds lactation consultatant exam prep course on a yearly basis. people who have heard her speak say she's great- extremely knowledgable. anyways- she has a web site that has lots of great articles about breastfeeding. she also has alot of articles by jack newman md - another breastfeeding consultant guru. if you go to her web site, check out the article entitled "don't shake the milk". it explains how shaking breaks up the amino acid chains, leaving only pieces - thus ruining many of the beneficial properties of breast milk. the link to her site with that article is: http://www.bflrc.com/ljs/ls-arts.htm i only recently learned about the problems with shaking the milk. i used to "shake vigorously" to get the fortifer to dissolve. now i feel torn between maintaing cellular components or serving my babies a lumpy meal ! we don't charge for fortifier but i do know that it is very expensive. i wish someone would come up with a liquid additive! i've never heard of enfacare powder- what is it?

Does anyone have any suggestions for "effectively" dissolving fortifier into breast milk?? We always used to "shake vigorously" - until we learned that shaking destroys the cells in milk. Gently swirling just seems to leave us with lumpy milk- yuck!! Also, how far ahead of time to you add your fortifier? The package says you can store it for up to 24 hours but I think it starts to look a little funny after a few hours in the frig. Thanks for your input!