Anyone else still waiting for colustrum to kick in?

[Island_Mama]

I really wish I had colustrum. I don't care about leaking really! it would just give me peace of mind. being able to breastfeed right away is WAY more important to me than a few wet shirts.
my EED is next tuesday.

[amj'smommy]

Try not to worry... I never had any leaking before having any of my dc but my milk was in 6hrs after birthing ds#2. I'm still nursing him (now 2 1/2yrs) but I don't think he's getting anything... it's more for comfort now (usually just right before his daily nap and maybe once during the night for like 2 min). I ask him while he's nursing if he's getting any "nummies" and he'll just look up at me and giggle so I don't know. I made PLENTY of milk for him when he was little and yet I rarely ever leaked, just really in the first few weeks and mostly at night during letdown.

[mrskennedy]

Not waiting. Actually wishing it would go away... Well not go away of course, but stop the hell leaking! It's not leaking. It's flooding. Has been since 27 weeks, and that was a long time ago: week 40 ends on the 4th. You won't not have it though. Something will be there when it needs to be. It's just that some of us are waaaaay overactive. Oh, and about wet shirts, they're not wet. They're soaking, and all I can say is it's a good thing I don't have to go out to work somewhere!

[kerikadi]

This is my 5th baby and I never had noticable colostrum except with #4 and that is because I was still nursing #3. I have breastfeed 4 babies successfully for a total of 8+ years and I don't have colostrum. Try not to worry Mama - it really doesn't mean anything.

Keri

[MrsTC]

I was just worrying about this this morning as ds was nursing after he woke me up (my version of a snooze button--my boobs buy me another ten minutes lying down in bed in the mornings, thank goddess for boobies!!).

I am feeling a little tingly like a gentle let-down now when ds nurses, so I'm hoping that means something.

When I was pregnant with him, I remember toward the very end of the pregnancy, waking up with a little bit of gooey/dried orangeish stuff at the tips of my nipples, and I could squeeze some colostrum out if I worked at it. But this time, save for a drop here and there of what I'm guessing is breastmilk or a different-looking colostrum, nothing, that I can tell. And if ds is getting anything, he must like it or the difference in taste must not bother him.

I don't know. But my mantra is and will be...my body is made to do this, my body will produce food to feed my new baby. I will only hinder my body from doing what it needs to do by worrying and stressing about it.

AND! FWIW, I wouldn't have known either way with ds if I was producing colostrum because I didn't have letdown or leakage until after my milk came in. I assumed he was getting something because he wasn't screaming bloody murder in hunger.

[karen1968]

I was dry as a bone until after I gave birth. And it took a nurse squeezing HARD to get a drop out of my nipple afterward. But DS got what he needed, mostly. he was a little dehydrated at day 4, but my milk came in that night...strongly enough that he gained 6 oz in two days!!

Suffice it to say, I no longer believe lack of colostrum before birth means ANYTHING!

[Arwyn]

Your baby WILL be able to get colostrum out of your perfect breasts whether you leak or are able to express any before birth or not! Some women just don't have leaky faucets, as it were - absolutely nothing wrong with that! Heck, some women can't ever really express any milk, even when breastfeeding is going really well and their babies are obviously getting plenty. Nothing is as good at getting milk out of your breasts as a baby is! Totally don't worry about it. (And be thankful you don't have to worry about leaking all over your shirts like some of us do. There are the shirts I've had to stop wearing because they don't fit, and the shirts I've had to stop wearing because they show the leaks too well! I know you'd rather have the comfort of knowing you're producing something, but trust your body; you are. Nothing wrong with counting the small blessings.)

[LittleLlama]

Saw this on the front page and figured my barge wouldn't hurt. I never leaked anything before. It was day 2 before I felt any milk. I could never pump either yet my guy is in the 98%ile