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Can pregnancy change breast milk?

Racheal - posted on 12/06/2011 ( 3 moms have responded )

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My DS is 25 months and nurses mainly at night. I am about 6 weeks pregnant and i just noticed in the last 2 or 3 days his BM's have become very frequent and runny :/ eww(he isn't sick)...My question is could the pregnancy be changing my milk? Is this an effect similar to colostrum?
Thanks in advance

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Ania - posted on 12/14/2011

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Yes! My little one weaned at 22 months becaus my milk supply dissapeared. I expected that. It happened at 10 weeks. Good book Adventures in Tandem BF I reccomend if you are considering

Maree - posted on 12/08/2011

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As soon as my sister got pregnant with her 2nd child,her first (19 month old boy)flat out refused to breast feed.

I don't know if it tasted different or what but there was no way she could get him to feed. Unfortunately she miscarried that baby but could not get her older child to feed again even after the miscarriage...

*Fluffy Bunnies - posted on 12/06/2011

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Yes it can. Normally your milk changes later in pregnancy, but everyone is different. It is the colostrum coming back for the new baby. It could be like this until your baby is born and your milk comes back in. I had just switched to cloth when my toddler's BM's started getting looser due to milk changes. lol. It was a great way to help me learn how to cloth diaper. Have you read the book "Adeventures in Tandem Nursing" by Hilary Flower? Tons of great info in there about nursing through pregnancy and tandem nursing.

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