Breast milk coming in at 25 weeks?

[Spice17]

Hi all

I just went to put on my PJ top (a stretchy vest with boob support) and there appears to be a small circular dry stain from last night where my nipple would be (sorry TMI)

I've checked and it starts on the inside of the top going outwards too, can't think of anything else it could be, but I didn't notice/feel anything? It's also looks like what a dry (cows) milk stain would.

Cat was laying on my boob in bed last night, but doubt that would cause anything would it? Is it a bit early? And if yes, why would it happen, anyone know? Very weird!

Sounds similar to me Spice I woke up last weekend and saw what I thought was dry skin on my nipple... touched it and it was actually a spot of bright yellow liquid. Completely freaked me out, and I've seen it a couple of times since. I'm 23 weeks, so yes please any answers would be great!!!

Yes it's completely norrmal With my first pregnancy I started leaking around 20 weeks.

Yes, it's colostrum. It's not at all unheard of to have it that early. Once you get past 37 weeks of you want to encourage labour you can express it, it triggers oxytocin which helps to trigger labour. Doing that helped to avoid induction on my due date.

Colostrum is concentrated breast milk, a bit like double cream, it provides all the nutrients and calories in very small quantities because your baby will have a very tiny stomach to begin with. As your baby grows your milk will thin and look more like cows milk. Lots of people say "I couldn't breast feed, my milk didn't come in" but almost always they didn't realise that the tiny amounts of colostrum you produce is all they need to begin with. It's literally 10ml) 2 teaspoons a feed for a newborn.

I hope that helps.

That's brilliant information, thanks! My leaky nipples and I are off to bed...

Whoa! Was not expecting it to happen yet - DH didn't think it was possible. Do I need to worry about visable leakage from now on then?

Nene I've had that for a while too, though I had flaky nipples but think it must have been dried milk/colostrum?

thought

Normal, I could express colostrum from about 11w in my first pregnancy.

As for expressing inducinga labour, it may help but NICE said nipple stimulation as an induction method needed more research.

You need to do it for a good long while to
actually have an effect. Certainly it didn't help me as I went to 40+15 and 40+1.

I agree with what Flisspaps said but I was part of a trial at my hospital to reduce induction in women with gestational diabetes. I harvested colostrum in syringes from 37 weeks, I did about 5 ml a night to begin with and then 10ml. Dd arrived at bang on 39 weeks. The study should be published later this year.

I used boots reusable breast pads at night in a bra. You just wash them in your machine. It's pressure on the breast that triggers the flow so you'll be fine in the day unless your bra is too tight but when you squash your boob at night against the mattress it leaks.

Oh god, well if that's what was giving me the dry nipples as well, I've had it for ages!!!!!!! Shocker!!!! Interesting about this new research - will keep an eye out for it - or even better, let us know when it's out if you can please HappyCamel? Preferably around mid September?!

I think I've had this too. A couple of weeks ago I had dried patches on the vest top I'd slept in and I've noticed patches in my bra too . Now 24 weeks. Mmmm pregnancy is so glam! Also got the the post birth bleeding to look forward to!