What if my Milk/Colostrum doesn’t come in?

It's pretty much impossible for your milk to not come in. If you read about the science of it, it might help?

Harvesting colostrum now is massively reduced because of your pregnancy hormones. When the placenta detaches, those drop and your colostrum and milk can flow freely.

It's also basically a highly evolved sweat gland. So like, if you can sweat you can make milk ☺️ x

I think a lot of us FTMs will be having this fear right now but like said, our bodies will do their thing. Colostrum harvesting doesn't work for everyone, and putting too much stress on it might be making it harder for you because it's all about oxytocin, that happy, love hormone.

If you want to give it another go, make sure you are really comfy, calm and feeling loved. But if you don't manage to harvest, I genuinely don't think it's an issue xx

Milk coming in is triggered by your placenta detaching. It’s completely normal for women to not be able to harvest colostrum, this DOES NOT mean you can’t breastfeed!!! 6 months breastfeeding here

With my first I produced very little colostrum - not that you should expect to produce loads, as baby's tummy is really tiny the first few days, I think they can take like 10 ml per feed the first day. But anyway I had a long labour and did not eat or sleep for 3 days before giving birth, or drink much, so my guess is this is what affected the colostrum production. I still had some, just not enough for baby to settle after a feed and what we did is supplement with a tiny amount of formula after BF from a cup or the premade bottles. Then my milk came in and I had a very very good supply and there was no problem breasfeeding. So try not to worry about it, your body know what to do, just make sure you are comgy, taje csre of yiurself, put baby on breast as often as possible and let nature do it's job :)

Following as I have the same worry xx

I never collected colostrum in my last pregnancy, I didn't know how and didn't bother to learn. I'm still breastfeeding now 33 months later and pregnant with the 2nd baby. So it doesn't affect your ability to breastfeed, I'm proof 🙈

Phew.. I’m glad i’m not the only one with this fear. But thank you ladies for clearing that up.. 💖