What's wrong with the blue milk

When a woman's identity begins to change and she becomes a mother, she will pay close attention to the health of her child. As a mother, I really want to give my children the best. Therefore, when breastfeeding, once you find that the color of your breast milk begins to change, you will be very worried that the baby is eating breast milk that is not nutritious. Today we will introduce to you what causes blue breast milk.

Before becoming a mother, Mengmeng had always thought that the color of breast milk was milky white. However, after having a child, her eyes were opened to find that breast milk is not only milky white, but also green, yellow, grayish white, and even black. This scared Mengmeng. She foolishly thought that the quality of her milk was poor. For a while, she didn't dare to breastfeed her child and started feeding her child formula milk at an early age. By the time the color of Mengmeng's breast milk returned to milky white, the baby had already gotten used to the taste of formula milk and was unwilling to drink Mengmeng's breast milk.

It's not just Mengmeng. Many mothers have encountered the same problem. When they saw that their breast milk was other "weird" colors, they thought they had eaten something bad and the quality of their breast milk had deteriorated. They dared not breastfeed their children for fear of affecting their children's health. In fact, these colors of breast milk are normal for babies.

Off-white

When a baby first sucks his mother's milk, it is usually grayish white. Although it looks like malnutrition, it is actually "foremilk". The foremilk looks relatively thin. The breast milk is rich in nutrients such as protein and vitamins, but the main component is still water. Therefore, babies who are breastfed within 6 months basically do not need additional water.

milky

This is what we traditionally think of as healthy breast milk. In fact, the milky white milk is mostly hind milk. Because the hind milk is rich in fat, it appears milky white. However, when feeding your baby, try to let the baby suck both foremilk and hindmilk to ensure balanced nutrition.

yellow

Yellow breast milk usually exists after the mother has given birth. The milk is yellow in color, thick, small in quantity, and looks very turbid. Many mothers squeeze out this milk in vain, but they don’t know that this yellowish milk after delivery is actually colostrum, the most nutritionally valuable milk. It is rich in various nutrients and immune proteins, and is known as "liquid gold". Therefore, mothers who squeeze out their breast milk are losing pure gold.

green

A small number of mothers will find that their breast milk has turned green. In fact, there is no need to panic, because the breast milk turns green only because the mother eats too many green leafy vegetables in her daily life. This kind of breast milk is also normal and nutritious. However, if the mother really can't stand this kind of milk, she can eat less green leafy vegetables.

Black breast milk

Among the many colors of breast milk, only black breast milk cannot be fed to babies. Black breast milk mostly appears because the mother takes too many antibiotics. Therefore, when seeing a doctor and getting medicine, the mother must tell the doctor that she is breastfeeding or stops breastfeeding the baby during the medication period.

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