So I’m a mother of several including a new baby, I’m also a midwife and we’re encouraged to promote colostrum harvesting in pregnancy. Personally I hated the idea of doing it so didn’t and successfully breastfed all my babies. I would have for baby’s sake still expressed postnatally if needed e.g prem baby/not latching but didn’t seem natural to do it in pregnancy for the sake of it. I promote it as we’re encouraged to, however now I’m on some of the breastfeeding forums I’ve noticed this does seem to be quite a source of stress to some women and has made me wonder whether women realise this is entirely voluntary and doesn’t mean they won’t be able to breastfeed if they don’t 🤷🏻♀️ Just interested in people’s experiences, did they feel it helped or did it more put them off the idea of breastfeeding