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leaking colostrum after baby = pregnancy or hormones?

well my son is almost 4 months old. i was breastfeeding but complications with him led to not being able to past 4 weeks. anyways, my milk dried up quickly and its been at least a month and a half since i was able to squeeze any milk from my nipple. over the last 2 days or so i noticed that my breasts are hard - not tender - but harder than normal. they're not so much so like being engorged but they're just a little harder than last week. i squeezed to see if maybe for some hormonal reason i had some milk in there, but what came out i think was colostrum. it was mostly whitish with clear but it was a sticky texture, unlike milk. during my pregnancy with my son, i leaked a teeny tiny bit from about week 20 on. why would this be happening now?? does it mean i could be pregnant? im not lte on my period or anything, not til next week. seems a bit early to be leaking colostrum if i were pregnant... could it just be hormones? i know colostrum is normally yellow but when i had it while pregnant with my son is was very light yellow and appeared white/clearish almost at times. but i can tell by the texture of it that its not milk! milk is very watery while colostrum is sticky. and i wasnt "stimulating" my nipples, i gave them one squeeze to see just because my breast felt harder. and colostrum is what came out

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1. It probably has to do with hormones. At only 4 months postpartum, your body has not totally regulated the hormones yet. I only was able to breastfeed for 6 weeks because of complications for myself, but I still leaked colostrum for like 6 or 7 months when I tried to express it. I would get a very full feeling in my breasts, and would get a little bit of colostrum out and it would help. I wouldn't panic about being pregnant. BUT I will say that when I got pregnant at 9 months postpartum, I did get colostrum much sooner in the pregnancy (like 8 weeks and only a few drops when I tried to express it). If that is your only symptom, don't panic. It is probably just hormones.
2. Probably not...becuase i"m assuming you waited atleast 6 weeks to have sex, so to have leaking colostrum at a pregnancy term of barely 2 months would be really weird. it's probalby just hormones from baby. . . your period is probably coming.
3. I was only able to breastfeed my daughter for 3 weeks. My milk dried up quickly and had no problems for a few months. Then I started leaking white stuff when she was like 6 months old. I was scared and thought I was pregnant again. But I'm on birth control. I am not pregnant to this day and I occasionally still leak like that. Probably just hormones.
4. Is your child sick, or have they been? Your body can start to produce milk in response to illness in your child, I don't see why it couldn't produce colostrum as well. Will your babe latch on? You might try it :) Good luck!
5. THAT'S STILL JUST PART OF THE DRYING UP PROCESS