My bet is that this is a breakdown product of hemoglobin from bloody discharge from the cysts, mixed in with the colostrum. Probably full of iron. Doesn't sound infectious, even though it may remind her of pus. She'd have a raging case of mastitis or worse if that were so. I bet more babies than we know get something like this, but since it goes straight down their gullet, no one knows. As Lactogenesis II gets going, the quantity of the milk will cause such dilution of the bloody discharge and its breakdown products, it will probably be unnoticeable. Jean ********** K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC Dayton, Ohio USA *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html