I’ve read articles before about breastmilk changing colour depending on the health of the people around the mother but I really hadn’t noticed it with my previous two babies. Maybe because neither were at school so they weren’t getting as many bugs but it could also have been that I was just way too tired to notice! There is less than two years between them.
This time around I can almost tell you that someone in the household is ill before anyone starts showing any symptoms because my milk changes colour. In the image below the bottle on the right that is pretty much creamy coloured is my usual milk. The bottle on the right is what I produced when my 4yr old became ill with a virus. The bottle in the middle is the transition period in between.
It’s quite difficult to capture in a photograph but there is a distinct blue tinge to my milk when one of my older children or husband becomes ill. And just to be clear. I’m only nursing the four month old baby.
This is the second time it’s happened now so I really don’t think it’s coincidental. My clever norks are just tailoring milk to suit the needs of my baby to protect her.
Pretty impressive stuff huh?!?!