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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. Usually it takes 3-6 months after weaning before you stop leaking. Some women though will leak up to a year after weaning. Good luck!