Hi there,

I"m an EE so I have built up a whole shelf of EBM in the freezer. I have only dipped into it from time to time and I have read some instructions for defrosting and using frozen EBM but there are a few things I"m not sure of:

1. When defrosting in my fridge it takes about 24 hours before one 200ml packet of EBM defrosts. I know it should be used within about 5 hours (or something like that) of being defrosted. Do I take this from the time it is completely defrosted? I want to defrost in the fridge because the milk in the packet has a longer timeframe to be used than if I put into warm water to defrost. I have stored milk to the maximum capacity of each bag ie: 200mls rather than what I normally put in bottle ie: 120ish mls hence the desire to keep the left overs for the next feed.

2. I have noticed that there is some crystal like bits in the defrosted EBM packet. Perhaps it is some really small icy bits and maybe isn't completely defrosted I'm not sure. Does anyone know what the crystal bits are and if that's all fine to tip into the bottle as well?

Thanks