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Title: what is second milk?
Post by: marimul77 on May 19, 2008, 15:40:01 pm

Hello everyone!

I was talking to a friend the other day, and she asked me whether my second milk had come in? She said hers did when her LO was about 3 months old. I had never heard of it, but was kinda embarassed to ask exactly what she meant :-[. Does anyone know what she was talking about? Thanks!!

Title: Re: what is second milk?
Post by: 15milner on May 19, 2008, 16:09:07 pm

Not sure what your friend was meanign either.

The first milk is the colostrum
Then the 'breastmilk comes in'  and as far as I thought here it stays until you stop.  BUT breastmilk is extremely clever stuff, it changes as your baby gets older in order to sustain the baby as it grows.  If a baby was born at say 30 weeks, the milk produced would be appropriate to the needs of a preemie, the milk I make for Andrew now at age1 will be different to the milk I made 11 months ago.

Alex

Title: Re: what is second milk?
Post by: Samuel's mum on May 19, 2008, 17:53:42 pm

Not sure what's she referring to either. As Alex says gradual transitions happen in the constituents of your breastmilk (e.g. during the year the proportion of casein proteins increase) but there isn't 'a second milk'.

Title: Re: what is second milk?
Post by: marimul77 on May 19, 2008, 19:39:02 pm

Thanks! Breastmilk is truly amazing stuff. :)

Marianne