How do I store my breast milk?You can freeze and/or refrigerate your pumped (or expressed) breast milk. It's important, though, to store it in clean and sterile bottles with screw caps, hard plastic cups that have tight caps, or nursing bags (pre-sterilized bags meant for breast milk). Also make sure to put a label on each indicating when the milk was pumped.How long, exactly, can I store my breast milk?The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) offers these guidelines for storing breast milk:You can store it at room temperature:- for 4 to 8 hours (at no warmer than 77 degrees Fahrenheit, or 25 degrees Celsius) You can store it in the refrigerator:- for up to 8 days at 32 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit (0 to 3.9 degrees Celsius)































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