Liquid Gold 🌟

Though it’s not much , I’m so happy to see colostrum 🥹 I’m 38weeks pregnant and pumped in both boobs for 15mins and this came out my left boob , my right didn’t express any! This is the first time I’ve seen anything come out my boobs even hand expressing didn’t work. But yay to me

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Nice! What kind of pump did you use? Or did you use hand expression?

I used the spectra 2 plus pump (electric pump) . Hand expressing never worked for me.

I have a spectra pump also but I haven’t tried it yet I’ve only been doing hand expressing but haven’t been getting more than about a mL at a time. Maybe I’ll use this as an opportunity to try out the machine! Congrats on the collection! I think it’s so handy to have it for emergencies, we just found out I’m a group B strep carrier so I’ll be happy to have it to give baby after we both get antibiotics 😑

yes go for it💜💜 . Even tho they say you get more colostrum from hand expressing I just can’t seem to get the hang of it nothing leaks so I tried the pump and was shocked . Thank you .

Woah that's a weird color lol mine is like clear/milky looking?? Or is mine the weird color? 😅 I don't really know what it should look like lol

nope that’s the color it is lol look colostrum up , that’s why a lot of people call it liquid gold because of its color☺️ how far along are you?

Mine is kind of milky yellow also, I think it’s pretty normal for it to be a range of colors. Probably depends on diet and genetics. I’m 38+2 now.

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