Freezer stash
Also called stash, milk stash, breast milk stash, frozen stash
A freezer stash is a store of expressed breast milk kept frozen for later. Parents often build one before going back to work or to have milk on hand for an emergency.
How it's said
...I can build up a bit of a freezer stash before going back to work.
Why do some mums (ones on social media, for example) build up huge stashes of frozen breast milk?
How much of a freezer stash do you have?
Who says it
Where it came from
Stash has been in English since the late 1700s. Dictionary.com calls it a blend of stow and cache, and Wiktionary gives the noun as a collection, sometimes hidden.
In pumping, the freezer stash is the milk put away beyond what the baby drinks now. Lactation consultants and pumping guides use the phrase for building a stash before going back to work and keeping it for emergencies.