thread: Blood in expressed milk

  1. #1
    Registered User

    Aug 2008
    Adelaide
    1,488

    Blood in expressed milk

    My nipple started bleeding while expressing at work this morning. There was no pain just a bit of blood and it stopped before I finished that side.

    My question is, do you think I should still give it to DD? I know that swallowing blood isn't harmful when feeding from the breast (it never hurt DD when I had cracked and bleeding nipples in the early days). But would it be okay to give it to her after storing it? Since it's Friday I was planning on freezing it over the weekend for Monday, but perhaps it would be better to give it to her as soon as possible, if at all.

  2. #2
    Life Subscriber

    Jul 2006
    Brisbane
    6,683

    Blood in expressed breast milk is fine. It won't harm her at all.