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  | Snickerdoodle   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Topic: Yellow milk? Posted: 19 April 2008 at 3:58pm
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   I expressed this morning at about 11:30 after Hannah didn't finish both sides. I got about 60mls and it's quite yellow looking (if you've seen the movie Napoleon Dynamite and you remember the scene where he's blind testing the milk and one is yellow cos the cow got into an onion patch...it's like that).
 It's always really white. 
 Is it strange that it's tinged? I often express at this time of day, so I know it's nothing to do with that.
 I've been feeling a little run down and off colour the last few days. I'm wondering if this can cause this..
 I've taken a photo, but I'll spare you. It's more so I can show my plunket nurse if Hannah has any ill effects from it.
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  | Neeks   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   you say your feeling run down?? You could have the early stages of mastitis and that creamish coloured milk your getting when expressing is actually infection.. Does it seem thicker at all??
 Check your boobs for red patches and feel for lumps.. sometimes mastitis takes a few days to show up properly and a fever and being run down is usually a good inclining that you have it    | 
 
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  | Snickerdoodle   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Ooh thanks for that neeks..I'll check it out    | 
 
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  | mum2paris   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 19 April 2008 at 4:55pm | 
 
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   Milk can be all sorts of colours, trust me i have seen so many variations it's not funny, I handle expressed milk a thousand times a day/every day.
 It can range from watery pale white in colour, to thick and creamy rich yellow colour (which usually means it's wonderfully full of rich creamy good fats) some milk from some people even has a distinct green tinge to it, if you didn't express you really wouldn't know any different.
 
 Keep a watch for the things Neeks said about just in case, but as far as i know i haven't seen too much change in the milk of mums i deal with when they have had mastitis.
 
 Also remember that over time your milk can change, and at different times of the day it can be fuller and thicker - which can tend to be mornings especially, and it can also be different in colour depending on what you have been eating too sometimes if you have had things that are rich in good fats etc it can transfer thru
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  | ElfsMum   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 19 April 2008 at 5:00pm | 
 
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   mine was yellow as it got to the fatty milk sometimes.. 
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  | fattartsrock   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 19 April 2008 at 7:40pm | 
 
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   annnnnd sometimes what you eat/drink can affect the colour.  Correct me if I am wrong, but I think Emma had yellow milk after taking berrocas??
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  | Maya   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Yup, I had freaky yellow milk from antibiotics or vitamins, can't remember which one but I did post a thread about it lol. Like Janine said, milk can be so many different colors, I spent 10 weeks expressing and no 2 lots were ever the same. I even had pink milk a couple of times from blood from my cracked nipples.
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  | peanut butter   Senior Member
 
   
 
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   Maybe your milk is changing to add more laxatives   | 
 
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  | Neeks   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 19 April 2008 at 8:22pm | 
 
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 I even had pink milk a couple of times from blood from my cracked nipples.
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 I had this too, and a little while after I gave it to Keziah it made her poohs hard due to the extra iron    | 
 
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  | fattartsrock   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   oooh mine is sometimes pale blue looking...   | 
 
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  | Snickerdoodle   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   bahahahaha 
 OK, so ALL of these answers are super helpful! Thanks!
 I HAVE been taking beroccas, and nzpiper, I can only HOPE it's got added laxatives    BLUE milk?
 Now I don't feel quite so freak-like!!    | 
 
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  | Shezamumof3   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 19 April 2008 at 9:27pm | 
 
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   we learnt about this at AN class last Tuesday night   She said that breast milk can be an aray of colours, from yellow to orange to blue   and she said its all totally fine, and she did say what you eat had a big effect aswell.
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  | arohanui   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Sheza, the font of knowledge of AN class... and everything seems to be learnt just at the right time to help out someone in jan/feb mummies ay!!  Lol awesome!    *note to self: way to freak DH out... have berocca and then show him expressed milk... mwwhaahaha...
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   lol liz! 
 We have learnt a lot from AN class   but i'll still probably freak out when something happens like..yellow breat milk lol.
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 20 April 2008 at 6:44pm | 
 
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   Plunket told me when my breast milk went neon yellow it was the cream of my milk - what a good cow you are to be producing cream too    | 
 
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