Leaking, sorry if TMI
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Topic: Leaking, sorry if TMI
Posted By: emz
Subject: Leaking, sorry if TMI
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 5:13pm
| I noticed my breasts started leaking colostrum about 1 week ago (at 17.5 weeks), but in everything I've read it said it shouldn't really start until 20/21 weeks. Can someone tell me if this is normal, or is it quite early? I'm never too sure about my dates even though a scan at 12weeks said EDD 4 Jan, going by LMP its 14 Dec, and m/w thinks baby will come somewhere in the middle. |
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 7:25pm
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Totally normal. If it is leaking enough to start showing through get some breast pads to put in your bra now (if they are I would go the washable way - will save you heaps in he long run). ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 7:58pm
| Don't worry about it. Like becks said get some washable breast pads, they are cheap. I thought I wasn't leaking enough to show through clothes then one random day I had a wet spot on my top.. luckily I was at work not home, otherwise how embarrassing! hehe |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 8:19pm
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I'm sure you meant the other way around ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
kebakat wrote:Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 9:41pm
| Thanks for the tips, kind of didn't know if it should be happening this early. Will talk to my m/w when I see her on saturday too. And thanks for the PM about where to get breastpads Becks, I'm all for saving money! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 9:46pm
Thats cool, I am too, the student in me  does it the cheap way all the time.------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 11:00pm
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Hi emz. I was exactly the same. Started leaking about around 15-16 weeks and just about fell over with shock!. I thought you didn't start leaking until your were 30+ weeks! Mine actually continued throughout the pregnancy and was never a major problems I got some washable pads from honeychild (fuzzibunz) that are fantastic!
My m/w told me when it started that it probably meant I would have a good milk supply and boy was that true, so there is definitley a bright side  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MyMinis
Date Posted: 08 August 2007 at 8:30am
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I started leaking early to but i didnt leak enough till the end for me to ahve to get breast pads.
i dont read to much into what i read about when things should and shouldnt be happening etc cuase we're all different. I agree with it meaning a good milk supply with Haleigh I didnt leak til towards the end and I didnt have alot but this time round I noticed I was forever full and I still leak every now and then, but I couldve noticed it more cause I wasnt able to feed him. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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