Not all colostrum is yellow; Barbara Wilson Clay has photos in her
Breastfeeding Atlas of "white colostrum."

Debbie GIllespie, IBCLC, LLLL
Tempe, AZ


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Lynda Lilienfeld <
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> Thanks Jacqui
> The mom I was concerned about had a Caesarean 4 days ago, continued to
> produce plenty of white milk. Didn't apper to change to colostrum. Baby has
> fed amazingly from when she first latched in theatre. She had copious yellow
> stools by day 3, so presumably whatever she needed was there for her.
> Lynda Lilienfeld South Africa
>
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> hi, linda!
>>
>> i have tandem or triandem nursed through 4 pregnancies over this last
>> decade and every single time i had mature milk that gradually became
>> colostrum-milk toward the last couple of weeks. i also worried that  the
>> finite supply of colostrum was being used up before the new baby  could be
>> born. however, in each and every single case, birth triggered  the cycle to
>> begin anew and i always reverted back to pure colostrum  shortly after each
>> birth.
>>
>>  protecting the colostrum for sleepy newborns when i had voracious
>> toddlers was another matter, however - which led me to assigning  breasts
>> and the fascinating discovery that the newborn breast  maintained colostrum
>> much longer than the toddler breast as i watched  them produce milk
>> completely independently of each other !! - but that  is another topic.
>> hth!
>> ~jacqui gruttadauria, bsw
>> near detroit, michigan
>> (where i just had 5 out of 5 children get hit w/ a bug that came w/ fevers
>> up to 105 and accompanying hallucinations for all 5 children at once and is
>> just now beginning to see the humor in it all, as they recover...)
>>
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