Is breast milk supposed to be this color?

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This is from my right breast and the milk on the tissue is from my left breast. Is this color normal? I just gave birth 4 days ago and my breast milk just started coming in yesterday

Answer

Yes! Very normal. Since you’re only 4 days postpartum, it’s most likely colostrum. It’s normal for colostrum to be yellow. It’s very very healthy for baby!

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And if you can definitely freeze some of it! It’s can really help if baby gets a cold because of the antibodies in it!

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Your milk is transitioning from colostrum to mature milk. So it has increased in volume to mature milk but is still containing a lot of colostrum which makes it yellow.

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Definitely! Especially at first because it's mostly colostrum. That's the BEST stuff. They call it liquid gold for that reason

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Yes, freeze this for winter as it’s likely colostrum.

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Its transitioning milk! In a few more days it may turn white!

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All normal colour! Unless exclusively pumping, be really careful about pumping before 4-6 weeks, oversupply might sound good but it comes with a whole bunch of other problems.

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Yes normal

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Yep!

Is breast milk supposed to be this color?

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