Rachel wrote:
"I'm curious if other people have not seen colostrum but that it was there.
I was seiously beginging to think that she wasn't producing anything.
Perhaps it was delayed."

This is the kind of situation where I wouldn't use a pump mnayway, b/c colostrum is easier to express by hand. If all I wanted was to nurture the mom's confidence and she could not hand express a bit, I would show her how to express, using my own hands if need be to show her where to express to get the colostrum. I cannot remember that we ever did not see colostrum in this way, but it may have happened.  It also leads to a great lesson about why baby needs to have a deep latch.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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