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> From: Debbie Wirtel <[log in to unmask]>
> To:
> Subject: dark colostrum
> Date: Monday, June 30, 1997 11:56 PM
>
> I had an LLL Leader call with a question for a mom with a baby born 10
weeks
> premature.  The mom started pumping for her baby and the nurses threw
out the
> pumped colostrum because it was "too dark".
>
> Does colostrum vary in color?  And if so, can it be too dark?  I'm
guessing
> the nurses thought it was "bad".
>
> Thanks for any anwers you can supply.
>
> Deb Wirtel, LLLL, AAPL
> St. Louis
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>
Deb, I have seen clear, cream-colored, yellow, orange, rust-colored & even
green, but none of it was ever discarded because of color.  They were all
considered variations on normal.  Maybe there is more to the story.
Katie Winchell, BS, IBCLC