I think that my milk is coming in but how can I tell if it's in fully?
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I didn't get super engorged, but the consistency definitely changed, as well as the color from golden to white. Also, this may be tmi, but with my milk when I hand expressed it shot out quite far, colostrum only ever dripped out.
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You'll know, lol.
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Sorry, I had to say just that.
The biggest things I noticed:
1) my boobs were suddenly twice as big and up to my chin
2) I could hear NavyBaby gulping, which I never could hear when he was just drinking colostrum. -
@prettylizy: ditto to the color change/squirting
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@Navy_Mommy: ditto to the gulpingmine did not come in suddenly, no engorgement, no increased boob size (though they went up 5 inches in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy and then a little more after that--they haven't changed since 27 weeks or so)
My lactation consultant said some women don't get it coming in suddenly, especially not-first time moms, and moms of babies who will,not.stop.nursing. until the milk comes in--I guess that makes it come in more gradually or something?
I also noticed that I went from pumping not even a drop, to 2oz, to 10 oz....
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I knew when I had major engorgement and squirting. Sadly, this didn't happen to me until I was 2-3 months pp!
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@pastemoo: I didn't have any of the engorgement either...everyone said I would know bc my boobs would get huge and rock hard and painfully full...didn't happen to me (eventually happened a month or so later due to oversupply issues but not when my milk first came in)
My LO lost too much weight in her first few days so I was pumping after each nursing session and also syringe fed her formula or expresse breastmilk...after a day and a half I supplementing after each feeding LO stopped taking anything from the syringe bc she was getting plenty of milk. Also like others said, I went from pumping this golden colored milk to white (sometimes bluish white) milk...and you go from pumping drops (barely an ounce) to multiple ounces.
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@prettylizy: Ok, then if it's still a bit golden, it's not fully in then?
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@Navy_Mommy: I laughed. Hurt my c-section incision, but I still laughed anyway. LOL
My milk is still golden so I am assuming it's not completely in yet.
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@belleoftheballe: I would think you might be transitioning, my milk was very much white once it stopped being colostrum. It turns yellow in the fridge, but its white when freshly pumped.
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