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blood instead of colostrum in pregnancy

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geranium · 25/09/2005 15:04

just wondered if anyone else had had this. In my first pregnancy at around 4-5 months I was leaking blood instead of colostrum. When baby was born I had to spend 10 days or so pumping out the breast before blood was replaced by milk. I assume it was some kind of weakness in some of the blood vessels in the breast and it was followed almost immediately by 3 bouts of mastitis followed by a breast abscess. Still managed to keep breast feeding though so wasn't too bad. Anyway, am now pregnant with no.2 and am wondering whether I will get the same thing again.

Just interested in hearing anyone else's experience if they have had this. Doctors hadn't heard of this but b/f councellor in the hospital when ds was born said I was the 9th case she had seen that year so presumably it is not that uncommon?

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suzywong · 25/09/2005 15:06

sorry to hear you had that experience

well done for perservering though

Never heard of it myself

geranium · 25/09/2005 17:48

bump. Anyone know of this themselves or anecdotally? Any midwives out there who've heard of it?

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HellKat · 25/09/2005 18:11

I did'nt have it during pregnancy but had it when my milk came through. Started off looking like tea, then realised it was blood (thankfully hadn't put ds on there first!).
The hospital ran tests on it, could'nt find anything wrong so used the electric pump to clear it out and after a day or so it went back to normal. They did'nt have a clue what caused it or anything, no pain etc. Not sure if it happens in other pregnancies as this was the only one it happened with.
Sorry not to be more help!

fastasleep · 25/09/2005 18:18

I got it sort of when I was expressing so often that I started getting blood blisters on my nipples! (Youch!) All I know about blood in milk is that apparently it's still perfectly safe to feed the 'pink milk' to babies... I know I sound totally weird, but DS didn't mind the milk at all....

I hope you don't get the mastitis or the abscesses this time around, and I have no ideas as to why you got them! But if you get the blood thing again don't be scared of feeding your baby the milk!

geranium · 25/09/2005 20:05

thanks anyway. Helpful to know it won't harm the child. First time round I was a bit afraid ds would turn into a vampire so thought I'd better let the blood clear before I started feeding from that side!

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