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This is a discussion on Odd question about colostrum within the Breastfeeding forums, part of the Feeding Baby category; Hello
This may sound like an odd question. I am due with baby #2 in a few days and was ...
This may sound like an odd question. I am due with baby #2 in a few days and was told to pump a little in order to help get things ready for labor. So I pumped for about 15 minutes the other night and nothing came out. Shouldn't colostrum be in there?
This may sound like an odd question. I am due with baby #2 in a few days and was told to pump a little in order to help get things ready for labor. So I pumped for about 15 minutes the other night and nothing came out. Shouldn't colostrum be in there?
I have 2 kids and nursed both of them and I am PG with my 3rd and had a breasting feed class today and nothing was said about pumping before the baby is born. I thought you body stated making it when you went into labor. Don't stress over it, it will all work out. Godd luck when you have your baby.
I have never heard of pumping before the baby gets here, but I suppose it couln't hurt. Nipple stimulation can bring on labor, though. I wouldn't worry about it.
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I was just going to warn about that - I actually sped up my labour and was able to bring on HUGE contractions (when I stalled early I tried this) by pumping - nipple stimulation = hello baby! Do you want to start labour early or did they warn about that....maybe that was the "prep" she was talking about? Starting contractions?
Pumping before hand won't do anything for your milk supply (or colostrum)....it takes the massive hormone changes that labour & delivery causes to cue the body to make colostrum..... only a small percentage of women "leak" when they're pregnant......
I was just going to warn about that - I actually sped up my labour and was able to bring on HUGE contractions (when I stalled early I tried this) by pumping - nipple stimulation = hello baby! Do you want to start labour early or did they warn about that....maybe that was the "prep" she was talking about? Starting contractions?
Pumping before hand won't do anything for your milk supply (or colostrum)....it takes the massive hormone changes that labour & delivery causes to cue the body to make colostrum..... only a small percentage of women "leak" when they're pregnant......
Good Luck!
Sorry I was so terse in my reply, I should know better than to try to post on 4 hrs of sleep late at night
Last time when I was pregnant I was able to "pinch" tiny drops of colustrum out with my fingers in my last few weeks but I didn't try pumping. I doubt anything would've come out.
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Kara (formerly wannaBmomma)
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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pumping while still pregnant won't do anything for breastfeeding,
and if your body is not accustomeed to the nipple stimulation, it cna help get labor started naturally. oxytocin is released when the niples are stimulated. oxytocin is the natural hormone that has been synthesized that they call "pitocin" to jump-start or speed upp labor in hospitals.
if you have nursed through your pregnancy, ignore most of the above though, becuase your body is accustomed to the stimulation.
as for leaking while preggie,. i leaked like crazy with #1 and nto at all with #2, and had more than enough milk both times.
congrats on your upcoming little one, and welcome to the bf board
if you have nursed through your pregnancy, ignore most of the above though, becuase your body is accustomed to the stimulation.
Mama Bear, does this also mean that nursing won't help your utuerus contract post partum because your body is used to the oxytocin? I hadn't thought of that before ...
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Kara (formerly wannaBmomma)
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Mama Bear, does this also mean that nursing won't help your utuerus contract post partum because your body is used to the oxytocin? I hadn't thought of that before ...
nope. you'll still contract fmr nursign *QUITE A BIT* after you have your next one. in fact, i'd be willing to bet that you'll have stronger ones this time than you did with your first.
you usually feel more crampy contractions after each subsequent delivery, as your uterus is working a little harder eachtime to get back down to its normal shape. nursing heklps with this immensely, but you are proabbly gonna feel it pretty good. (just a little headsup)
in fact i fought my ob's order to my nurse after i delivered, because she had ordered me a shot of pitocin to help contract my uterus. i sad "I am nursing, and once you give my baby back to me, i'll show you that my uterus can get back to normal without any artifical hormones."
the nurse just smiled and said "okay"
Thanks, Mama Bear. Now I have a *new* level of pain to look forward to
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i hope you don't think i am tryign to scare you. it wasn't a sbad as labor contractions, but i wa sjust unprepared for being that crampy, since no one bothered to tell me in advance...
LOL, naw, you didn't really scare me. I just have a hate/hate relationship with pain I have a high tolerance for it, but I just can't stand it!
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Kara (formerly wannaBmomma)
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
--Henry David Thoreau
I too was crampy after #2, it was funky! Every time he latched I'd get a menstrual-type cramp! It wasn't too bad at all. Kind of neat once I realized what was happening......
Odd question about colostrum
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Sorry I was so terse in my reply, I should know better than to try to post on 4 hrs of sleep late at night 
ANA MARIA
and mama to 2 
cubs
I have a high tolerance for it, but I just can't stand it!
