Warning: tune out now if you’re squeamish.
In the second instalment of the calmbirth class yesterday the midwife recommended pre-expressing some breast milk (or actually ‘colostrum’ which is what it is called at the beginning when its got more fat and protein and stuff in it), freezing it and then taking it to the hospital with you for the birth. It apparently can be very helpful if your baby has trouble with starting to feed.
Anyway. I’ve always imagined the breast milk would like more or less like cows milk, i.e. would be white. So, I was kinda surprised to discover on experimentation that at the moment mine is yellow, and not some pale off-white type yellow, – bright bold technicolour yellow. Weird. Turns out this is the normal colour of the colostrum part, but its gonna go to white later, which now sounds rather boring.
5 comments:
The colour of "white" wine. Good to let the baby get used to it early in life.
Züri
Quite bit yellower - more like egg yolk.
Nah, I reckon I'll be happier if the kid waits quite a few years more before getting interested in wine
In the old days they used to dip a cloth in hard liquor, let the baby suck on it to get it to sleep.
Just a tip :).
Züri
In our hospital childbirth class the other day we had to listen to a tape of a baby crying and then go around the room while each person made suggestions of techniques they would use to settle the baby. Should have suggested that one - strangely enough no-one else did!
Haha, did you get irritated while listening to a screaming kid?
Züri
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