Harvesting colostrum- need some advice
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Colostrum is quite thick so as you massage and see droplets coming out, you can use the syringes to collect them. There are some vids on youtube to show you how to collect colostrum
Thank you for your replies, that makes sense!
Just want to add that, dont be disheartened or stressed if you cant express any or little. It is normal. The first few times i did it, nothing would come out, and when it did, it was little, about 1-2mls if any. Every body is different!
It doesn’t squirt out it’s usually little dropplets and can take a while to fill a 1ml syringe, I used to aim for 2-3ml per day (1 in morning, one middle of the day, one in night) and once I reached 39 weeks I used a pump, it’s not really reccomended as can increased chances of going into labour but I got around 2-4 per pump and was doing 10 minute pumps 3 times a day x
Thank you! It's good to know I shouldn't be expecting much- I'm trying today's so let's see how it goes🤞
As droplets appear on the nipple you can suck them up with the syringe.. It's not the easiest thing to do but I managed pretty well with practise