I remember my girlfriend freaking out because her young sons nappy was bright pink and she thought it was blood. Then she worked out it was because he had eaten an empty red ice cream cone.

Interesting! I don’t recall ever seeing my milk change colour. I guess baby wasn’t fond of beetroot, fussing away.

I’m sure it all relates to what she has been eating. Maybe she had some beetroot or some red cordial – it does change the colours of your milk

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  • • serotonin replied
    • 09 Jun 2019 , 9:43 am

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  The article says she ate lots of beetroot.

Definitely would have given her a fright. I’ve noticed my toddlers bowel movements change colour with too much beetroot and too much food colouring in a birthday cake – that was a shock until I realised why.

Wow, that must have been a lot of beetroot!

That would be scary, never saw any changes in the colour of milk but still get a shock when I go to the bathroom after eating lots of watermelon!

Oh yes….and it was from my blood!
I had a breast abscess and was in hospital for 10 days trying to clear it up with antibiotics, and was close to needing surgery.
A horrendous lactation midwife told me it was perfectly fine to feed it to my baby.
I didn’t take her advice.
And that is why I am scarred from breastfeeding my first baby, and went straight to formula for my second.

Wow, whilst I can imagine this would have been horrific — who knew beetroot could do this?

Oh my gosh, shock horror moment.

My husband grew a lot of beetroot. Apart from bottling some we would also eat some as soon as it was cooked. Needless to say when you went to the toilet everything was a deep red. And yes, it worried us at first too until we realised what it was. Didn’t stop us though.

must have been a lot of beetroot!

Wow, who would have thought what we eat can effect the colour of our breastmilk!

A good reminder of why you shouldn’t eat too much of any one thing.

Baby certainly would no be lacking iron. Beetroot has a very high iron content, probably way to high for a baby.

No never colour changes in my milk, did have to stop having bran for breakfast as my son was having too many dirty nappies for a two week old baby.
My brother (9) years ago became really sick and was bringing up a lot of red stuff. Yes beetroot was the reason for the colour plus the chocolates his sisters (8, 12 & 13) had brought him. Dad and mum took the rest of the chocolates (liqueurs) for themselves and mum was glad it was not blood being brought up. That would had wreaked Christmas Day.

That’s cool, no my milk didn’t change colour

That is amazing. I would have lived to see the colour of the pee!

I remember freaking out when I noticed my milk having a green tinge one day, then I remembered all the greens I had been eating ????. Doesn’t freak me out anymore

That is so crazy! I didn’t realise that food could change the colour of breast milk

Haha i had a feeling it was something she ate coz also it happens with carrots