Where does the hind-milk go?

[PrettyCandles]

I feed, and there's creamy opaque milk at the end of the feed. Then I feed again later, or express, and the first milk is pale and cloudy. So where does the 'cream' go?

I have this mental image of boobs like old-fashioned glass milk bottles, silver-top of course, with a layer of cream floating somewhere near my bra-straps!

A lot of people don't really understand this, PC, as the way books talk about for and hindmilk is confusing.

The breasts do not make two different sorts of milk. It's all the same milk.

Between feeds, the more watery components of breastmilk move/trickle down to the front of the breasts - I say watery, but this is still goood stuff! Then as milk is removed during expressing or feeding, the creamier milk moves from the storage areas of the breast.

The milk becomes creamier as the breast empties.

The milk in a very full breast has proportionately more water in it. The milk in a relatively 'empty' breast has proportionately more fat in it. (Quotes round 'empty' as the breast never fully empties).

So, you feed your baby and that creamy milk is the last milk you see. Then you wait a little while, and express or feed again....and naturally enough, the more watery part of the milk has trickled down and has diluted the creamier milk that was left behind.

The cream doesn't go anywhere, really!

So I actually have 'gold-top' boobs after all!

Thanks!

(If I do aerobics, will they become 'red-top', ie homogenised? )