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WTF, blue/ green breast milk? am not a troll or a smurf.

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SparkyFartDust · 01/10/2008 21:59

I have recently gone back to work and for the first time for a while expressed the in evening.

my milk was blue. Not blue as in pale foremilk slight tinge of blue but blue(more duck egg blue than smurf blue)!

DP can verify (he thinks I'm a freak).

anyone else had / heard of this this

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moondog · 01/10/2008 23:29

Blimey!
What did you eat?

TooTicky · 01/10/2008 23:33

Are you a yak?

TooTicky · 01/10/2008 23:33

Or is it pink for yaks?

LadyOfWaffle · 01/10/2008 23:35

Mine looked very blue once, I think maybe the bottle had a slight slight slight tint?

Teddimac · 01/10/2008 23:39

Erm, mine took on an odd greenish hue once... which I put down to being a bit keen on Berocca, you know that fizzy vitamin thing that makes your pi*s bright orange? Freaked me out enough to stop taking it for a while and it soon went back to normal.

But blue, now that is freaky

ghosty · 01/10/2008 23:45

I had green/blue poo for a few days once and thought I was dying - I went to the doctor and had tests and everything. Exactly a year later I had it again It was only then that it dawned on me that the blue food colouring on DS's Thomas The Tank Engine birthday cake and the blue icing on his 4th birthday Car Cake had something to do with it.

Not that that helps you at all ... so maybe you are a smurf. Or an alien.

moondog · 01/10/2008 23:51

Blimey Ghosty,how much didja eat???

ghosty · 01/10/2008 23:54

Rather a lot ... In fact, I actually made 2 Thomas cakes - a trial run and then a real one ...
It was really tasty icing though - all home made [smug]
Then the following year I drank a bottle of wine while icing the cake and so it was a case of "One for the cake, One for me, One for the cake, One for me, One for me, One for zhe cake ...."

mabanana · 01/10/2008 23:56

blue food colouring does make your poo blue - it's quite worrying until you work out why. I had a really tiny to be polite slice of Dr Who Tardis (turdis?) cake...

Shitehawk · 02/10/2008 00:00

My milk was often very blue. Was always OK though ... and I promise I'm not a fraek

Teddimac · 02/10/2008 00:01

And then there's beetroot, that's just scary

chipmonkey · 02/10/2008 01:20

There have been threads on blue breast milk before, so you're not alone! Can't remember causes unfortunately.

ghosty, your story reminds me of when my dsis was about 6. She was getting undressed one day and my Mum noticed that her legs were blue. Mum brought her to the GP, thinking there was some circulation issue. Nothing found wrong. So some days her legs went blue again, other times they were fine and my parents were puzzled and worried.

Till one day she was taking a bath with my other sister who is older, and my other sister noticed the blue washing off into the water! Turns out it was a pair of trousers she used to wear which obviously weren't very colour-fast and were leaching dye onto her legs!

ghosty · 02/10/2008 02:42

LOL @ chipmonkey's sis with blue legs

SparkyFartDust · 02/10/2008 20:07

LOL at these posts.

expressed again tonight and it is blue- not just a tinge-I am going to express in morning tomorrow so that I can post a picture of it in the day light sun to prove it's blue credentials.

don't think I have eaten anything blue.

Bottle been same one used previously- not washed in biro or anything.

reassuring to hear you've had this Shitehawk.
feel less alone in my freakishness now.

baby still drank it...

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LittleMyDancingForJoy · 02/10/2008 20:10

mine went green and so did DS' poo. I eventually tracked it down to Boots New Mother vitamins, which come in dark green gel caps.

stopped taking them, milk returned to normal colour - but not before three different doctors had got involved!

SparkyFartDust · 02/10/2008 20:43

thanks LittleMy

hmm, still wondering what on earth could be.

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GreenMonkies · 02/10/2008 20:49

Mine often had a blue tint, it's not unusual.

Show us a picture so we can see if yours is "normal" blue or freakishly blue!!

Ally90 · 02/10/2008 21:05

I had milk with a green hue. But I am vegetarian...

beansprout · 02/10/2008 21:06

Am looking forward to blue smurf milk.

Sycamoretree · 02/10/2008 21:20

Hmm, mine did this once I started dieting (not idea if it was linked) but I was so worried it was what made me give up in the end. Not that I think you should! I just put it down to my drastically reduced calorie intake so I thought it was probably lacking the necessary fat etc, so I switched to formula

Sycamoretree · 02/10/2008 21:21

Oh, mine was more green really - but like, really pronounced. DH was like, WTF? I threw it down the sink LOL!

orangehead · 02/10/2008 21:24

My milk was once blue, but after I had had a blue wicked

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wishingmummy · 02/10/2008 21:34

completely normal- the fore milk(stuff that expresses first) is like skimmed milk, and does have a slightly bluish tinge to it, it is very watery. if you continue the expressing, creamier hind milk comes, this is like gold top, and is warmer in colour. shake the both up together, to mix and it will be fine.

SparkyFartDust · 03/10/2008 20:40

well, I am veggie (apart from chicken I snaffle when no one else is looking) and I have lost weight recently- not trying to just prior to going back to work bacame boney (?stress).

It's not just the foremilk- it's the whole darn 6oz- bluey green I tells ya.

will take photo.

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Sycamoretree · 03/10/2008 22:08

Hmm, sparky, I wonder if the weight loss is a factor? I was on 500 calories a day. And yes, mine was almost luminous green. THe whole 8 oz I pumped.

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