06/02/2021
Exactly!!! Your baby get just what they need until your milk transitions. Colostrum is so important and nutrient dense. It’s literally baby’s first immune booster.
Your milk is already there.
It’s there before your baby is ever even born.
It starts out as colostrum, the most perfect first food for your baby.
This milk will be little in volume, but will be so dense. Not only in a physical sense(it is thicker than mature white milk), but it is also nutritionally dense.
Your baby’s tummy will be so tiny, and this milk will be enough. More than enough.
Your baby will nurse frequently..maybe non-stop. But, your breasts won’t be ‘dry’. This constant nursing, along with hormonal surges from birth, will let your body know that it’s time to start producing mature milk.
This constant skin to skin contact will release more hormones in support of milk production.
It is crucial for your baby and your future milk supply to allow unlimited access to your breast at this time.
Within a couple of days, your milk will start to shift. In color. In texture. In volume.
It’ll go from yellow to white.
Thick to thin.
A few drops to a half ounce or more.
Your milk doesn’t ‘come in’. It’s already there. It merely transitions.
