Collecting colostrum ???

An infant has the stomach about the size of a walnut or smaller, colostrum is dense, packed with nutrients and calories. It is very different then milk

@Rebecca so they don’t need a lot of it just a teaspoon I’ve heard .

Baby should be roughly these amounts per feed; the first day is 2-10ml, day 2 is 5-15ml, day 3 is 15-30ml and day 4 is 30-60ml and your transitional milk should start around this time. So 2 ounces on day one is a little shy of max amount BUT if you plan on chest feeding along with using the pre expressed it will be more than enough!

That seems like a great amount! Are you pumping with a hand pump?

How long are you pumping for throughout the day in order to get this much? FTM and trying to see how often I should be pumping in order to get nice amount of colostrum

I would think so!!! My last child or first I should say, I didn't start producing milk until after he was a couple days old 😔

This is making me feel like I should start pumping, but I have absolutely no leakage, I don't know what to do??

That’s a great amount!! However, I would highly recommend you get a bottle to put the milk into or syringes to get an accurate measurement. Pumping bags can be a little confusing with the measurement if you’re trying to use it purely to measure how much you were getting. It often time looks very deceiving because it’ll make you think you have more and really you have quite a bit less.

@Julia just 10 minutes each side , I’m trying to induce contractions bc baby is measuring bigger than 37 weeks !!

@Sasha I wasn’t leaking either so I started pumping to see if I would get anything and I did !

@Julia no mom cozy hands free pump

@Kenzie AMAZING!!! 😍😍 I'm gonna do the same! You've just inspired me 🫶🏻💐

For how long have you been doing this? And have you felt any contractions?

@Selena I started at 36 weeks