does breast milk and/or colostrum stain?

[CloudBee]

I'm leaking.

I got a freebie pair of Bamboobies in the mail a few months ago, so I just dug them out of the baby's closet so I can use them in my bra tomorrow.

I don't wear a bra to bed. Should I be worried about my shirts?

[Saudade]

Mine did/does. I wore my H's white tshirts to bed and stained them. Everyone said breastmilk doesn't stain. I have sooo many ruined baby clothes and A&A blankets.

[zeewifeandmama]

I've never known mine to

[sewpinkgal]

Mine did not.

[niki]

Mine did stain.

[niki]

And how exactly are we getting free Bamboobies?

[Brie]

It doesn't stain but you will smell like a dairy gone wrong on occasion.

ETA: Lanolin and many nipple creams/butters DO stain, so make sure to wear nursing pads when you use that in the early days of BFing.

[gibbinator]

It does leave big white rings on my shirt when it dries as though I'd been outside laying on salted roads. Washes right out in the machine though.

[anna7602]

I soaked everything with any kind of bodily fluid- bm, spit-up, pee, poop- in Oxyclean when DD was a baby and nothing ever stained.

This is how I dealt with not having my own washing machine and not being able to just throw things in the washer right away.

[knitty]

It depends on your diet. Things that stain make your milk stain (like beetroot and that yellow artificial dye), things like sushi will tint your milk but not stain IME.

[arch01]

only occasionally for me.

[aspentosh]

Mine didn't. Thank goodness.

[CloudBee]

Thanks. I'll be careful, then. Maybe I'll buy a few more maternity tanks and wear them under my pj tops at night.

[froggy76]

Everything stained for me- milk, lanolin, spit up. I didn't stress about it and will just junk all my nursing tanks when I'm done. I never used to wear a bra at night, but now I wear a sleep bra and probably will never go without one again because my boobs just aren't the same. Plus, in the beginning, a bra or tank will keep your shirt from rubbing against your nipples. I got the nursing sleep bras from Target and I love them... the material is so silky, it feels really good when your nips are sore!

[MadamePresident]

Dec 3, 2012 23:15:49 GMT -5 @ojo said:

No. Not for me, at least. Our sheets survived.

I have a tip on this subject though. We got a bunch of crib mattress pads and they're smaller/easier to wash than our queen size mattress pad, so we lay those down in the appropriate boob region under my sheet but on top of my normal mattress pad and wash that every time we change sheets. At first my husband kept laying down burp cloths, but we moved around too much in bed for them to stay put and one day I woke up on an excessive pile of eight prefolds.

I do something similar with the waterproof burp cloths. I'll lay a large one under me and baby. I feed her in my bed at night and we are messy.

[whitemerlot]

I started leaking around 15 weeks both times and wore a super lightweight bra to bed with reusable nursing pads. I wore something like this.
www.hanes.com/clothing/women/bras/view-all-bras/hanes-comfortflex-fit-layered-cami-racerback-wirefree-bra?cm_vc=PDPZ1