What does a healthy breast milk look like?
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What does a healthy breast milk look like?
Milk colour changes depending on what percent of fat, protein, sugar and water it contains. The more fat the more yellowish it is. As your body goes from producing colostrum to transitional milk to mature milk, your milk can go from yellow-tinted or orangey to white or bluish. It doesn’t indicate a problem and simply has to do with the milk’s changing composition.
The colostrum, is yellow to almost orange in color, it is the first breast milk and this lasts for the first few days—up to a week after baby is born. Foremilk is what you get at the beginning of a nursing or pumping session and is generally white to blue-white in color and generally thinner in consistency and appearance. Hindmilk is the milk that generally is released towards the middle to end of a feeding and is thicker and more yellowish in color Food choices of mother also contribute what their breast milk looks like.