So Miss P is almost 6 months and we're happily BF with FF top ups due to supply issues post breast reduction surgery. Tonight I had to go out for a couple of hours and DH gave Miss P a bottle of formula while I was gone. By the time I got home she was asleep but my boobs were full so I expressed using my Medela Swing. I got plenty of milk, around 160mls (that's a fair bit for me, I had to stop because the bottle was full and my boobs felt comfortable!) BUT the milk looked very watery and sort of grayish in colour. Like a really bad skim milk! It wasn't the normal creamy, whitish colour and didn't appear to contain much fat. DH commented that the milk looked different to how it usually looks. Looked like it was all fore milk and no hind milk but surely I would have hit the hind milk in 160mls??
Anyway, Miss P has not seemed as satisfied after a BF in the last week or so and I just figured her demand was increasing at a greater rate than my supply... but is it possible my boobs have started producing skim milk??
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