Breastfeeding Smell Curiosity

Have you been taking any supplements or drinking any special tea to help your supply? The fenugreek contained in these supplements will often make your sweat and milk smell differently--sort of like maple syrup. Milk glands are actually just modified sweat glands...gross little fact, I know.

Also, your body chemistry changes during and after pregnancy. I rarely got stinky before I had my daughter...now if I forget the deodorant I MUST stop at the store on the way to work.

Congratulations on breastfeeding eight weeks! There will likely still be some ups and downs, but the hardest part is behind you.

you will have to change/wash your bra etc more often, you are probably still leaking and its a strong smell if you leak even a little or let it sit even a little. try breast pads. ... all kinds of weird changes, it will go back to "normal" eventually.

Yeah.... breastfed babies have "butter-breath"... and then all milks have their own smell as well (just check out the difference between cows milk and goats milk.

What you're probably smelling is just the way that milk smells, if it doesn't smell bad. While I was nursing, I'd frequently end up changing my shirts at least a couple times a day for the first few months. Not to mention "washing" myself... because milk would dribble down his chin while eating and go under my breasts or soak into my bra & or shirt... which if left CAN smell bad (as it sours).

Its normal. What you eat can affect it. Better than formula smell, oi vey!

i am nursing my 3rd child now and with all 3 of them i had a smell. it wasnt smelly i just could always smell it. after i stopped nursing it went away. i