Colostrum harvesting

I tried aswell and didn’t get anything. Tried again the morning after and got a tiny bit. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. I’m still not getting a huge amount but proud of the tiny bits I can get

I’ve found having a few practice sessions helpful - so no intention of collecting anything, just trying to figure out how to do and what works for you. After a shower and comfy on bed watching a tv series, rather than stressing about trying to get anything. It wasn’t until the third time that I tried to actually collect and did get some.
Not sure what videos you’ve found on YT but this one is helpful - with a real boob not a knitted one 😂


https://youtu.be/PnG4pW9z4Cc?feature=shared

I asked my midwife who showed my and my partner as it looked on the face of it like I was doing it right but the tiniest tweak to my technique has me filling a 1ml syringe quickly in under 10 mins per side (and 2ml per day doing am/pm) whereas before I was getting 0.2-0.4 ml in 24 hours.

I’m sure this isn’t the case for everyone and now everyone has it. But this midwife’s advise and showing my other half so he can help me when I’m not quite doing it right has really helped as I was also feeling discouraged

I struggled when I first tried but I feel like you have to just keep doing it I also found a warm/ hot compress really really help bring out more for me the best thing I found was either after I finished my shower turned the temp up and bit and put the shower head on my boobs for a couple of minutes then getting out and trying which worked for me or thoses hot and cold breast compresses they’re good as well xx

thx for that x