Colostrum collecting - first day!

I’m not sure how many you should aim to fill but I was also pleasantly surprised, I have 8 syringes over 3 days!

well done, that’s an amazing start! I’m hoping I can carry on at this rate too🤞🏼

I wondered this and found something that said aim to take 5 - 10ml to the hospital with you. Then I guess just put as much as you can in the freezer. It'll always be helpful for baby when they're under the weather x

That’s great! I managed to fill 2 yesterday as the first day (36+3). Hoping it gets quicker though as took 45 mins each (split throughout the day) to fill 🙈😂 I wondered how much to collect too 🤷🏻‍♀️

Do you use a pump or hand express?

did you have a warm bath or shower beforehand? I feel like this really helped! I also watched a YouTube video on massages to do before hand expressing and it seemed to come out really easy/fast x

I hand expressed☺️

I had a warm bath before the first time also, also I just had in my head it wasn’t going to work so I think I didn’t overthink it 😂 I ordered more syringes off Amazon 20 for £4.99 as midwife only gave me 4!

that’s amazing! I only started yesterday and so far have only 2ml in syringes but it’s taking me forever! Do you mind me asking how long it took you to express 3ml? It took me about 30mins for 1ml and my boobs feel like their about to fall off 😩🤣

yes I was the same, I really wasn’t expecting much to come out and if anything, I was expecting it to take a while so i’d already managed my expectations so it was a very pleasant surprise. My midwife didn’t give me any syringes! She told me that the NHS don’t give them out😕 so mine are from Amazon too

thank you! And well done on getting 2ml! I managed to express 3ml quite quickly, i’d say within maybe 25-30 minutes (which I was honestly so shocked at!) did you have a warm bath or shower before? I had a shower before sitting down to express, lit a candle and also put Netflix on so I was super chilled and I feel like that really helped x

I didn’t have time yesterday as I was in in my own with the puppy and she cries after 30 mins of being on her own - got another 2 syringes this morning and hoping for a bit more tonight though!