My milk has turned pink?!?!?! Ideas / help please ladies

[floraflora]

Expressed a couple of ounces about 7pm this evening while giving DS bedtime feed to add to freezer stock for him to have with childminder tomorrow. Thought it looked a funny colour then but I was in a darkened room. After the world's biggest laundry mountain I've just come to deal with it as prepping his grub for tomorrow and IT IS PINK. A pale and attractive shade,yes, not a lurid puce, but still pink nonetheless. In 4 months of pumping for England I've not come across this.
Anyone else had this? Is it safe to feed him?

do you have slightly cracked nipples? could a bit of blood have got into it?

Could you have a sore? Mine turned pink when I had sore nips the dr said it was fine, other than that I don't know..........

Would beetroot turn milk pink? It has a spectacular effect on my baby's poos.

There have been threads about other colours as well so I think you're ok! I believe that Mears reported having blue milk and Quootiepie had green .

Apparently this is normal and if you think about it we wouldn't even notice if we weren't expressing.

Had mild mastitis about 10 days ago and a couple of blockages since - which I've shifted (when DS had deigned to help - was away without trusty pump) and have had this white 'thing' on end of nipple which occasionally turns yellowish for a while - thought it was a milk blister and thought I'd got rid of it. Don't think nipple is cracked... hang on I'll just check!

Surely you're not planning to feed pink milk to a boy?!?!?

Nope... no blood on nipple.
Yes, my milk does occasionally look bluish if there's lots of foremilk, but never this pink.
Is it safe?
More to the point, will the childminder think I'm a negligent mother if I send him with it tomorrow? Don't think I have enough EBM in stock not to.

Greensleeves... heee, heee, heee

Could be a very small crack especially if you've got a sore place on the nipple. Maybe the suction from the pumping was enough to just make you bleed slightly.

I suppose just a couple of drops of blood would be enough to turn the milk slightly pink.

Apparently beetroot can turn the milk pink although I've had a couple of bowls of borcht (sp?) in the last couple of days and haven't noticed anything yet...

Try some coco pops - they're so chocolatey they even turn the milk brown!

So, it's okay to feed him?

Yes

At worse, the cm will think you're feeding your baby strawberry Nesquik and judge you...

milk has now separated & it does look like blood - should I still feed it to him. Might encourage vampirish tendancies in future?

hi didn't see your last post

of course it's okay to feed him milk with drops of blood in. If he breastfeeds, he has the same, just you don't see it