The human body is a complex, confusing organism with complex, confusing, and often gross functions.
Because of that, we actually know less about how some of those functions work that you'd think. For all of our scientific advancements, certain things have been overlooked for centuries and we're still playing catch-up.
Frankly, centuries of doctors and scientists being only men and ridiculous "modesty" standards expected of women has held back progress to a remarkable extent.
It doesn't help that societal norms have been swung towards nursing being something expected to be kept private for decades now.
It's slowly changing, but stigma has made proper scientific studies difficult.
And if scientists are still foggy on the facts, it's hard to expect average moms to be clear on them.
It was something she'd never seen before and concern is understandable.
"It’s blue from all the antibodies my body is producing as it thinks she’s sick with what she was vaccinated against!" she said in a Facebook post that swiftly went viral.
Nurse and lactation consultant Angie Natero told them that the color and consistency of breastmilk can change for a variety of reasons.
"A [mom's] milk is generally designed perfect for her baby and is ever changing, day to day and feed to feed to best protect the baby as what she is exposed to via her environment and to best meet babies nutritional needs, so I have no doubt it might be possibly related too."
Research is still in its infancy — yeah, I went there — but scientists have deduced that the mother's body can detect changes in the baby's needs through their saliva.
Which is pretty darn cool, if you ask me.
Naterob explains that a full breast can have a higher water content at first, whereas less full breasts have milk that's thicker and creamier from fat content.
Jody does address this in her post, saying that the blue milk was pumped after a feeding and she hadn't eaten anything known to cause a bluish tint.
Jody updated her post to respond directly to them.
"This goes to show the vaccines are doing exactly what they are meant to do, and so is my daughters body and mine."
She told Parents:
"While there is still so much that we don't know about human milk, we do know that breast milk comes in a wide variety of colors and consistencies. The vast majority of those differences are normal."
Jody also said that she doesn't want to shame women who can't or choose not to breastfeed. This is just one of the many cool things about breastmilk, but she doesn't believe that formula-fed babies are any less healthy or loved.
