Breastfeeding

I successfully breastfed my first for 2.5 years. And I am 4 months into successfully nursing my second. I have never been able to collect colostrum. Once you give birth, things click. Just keep the baby on the boob. Let him comfort nurse, cluster feed, you can never have him on your too much. Your body works on supply and demand. Milk will come in.
And not seeing a ton does not mean you are not producing and need to supplement. That will just effect your production. Remember their stomachs take like a table spoon amount at first.
Learning a good latch is the best thing you can do, your body will do the rest.

You got this mama!

Focus on a good comfortable latch, that's the hardest part. I did better with a different style of latching then what most hospitals teach. I did not do well sandwich thhe boob and shove the kid's face onto it. That hurt like hell! I finally learned a more natural way of just putting the nipple to the lip and letting them vacuum it in naturally and it made it so much more comfortable

Plenty of moms don't leak during pregnancy and have a successful breastfeeding journey. I breastfed my 1st for 15.5 months and am almost 13 months into breastfeeding my second. I didn't leak during either pregnancy.
Check out Karrie Locher on Instagram for lots of great info on breastfeeding and baby care. She is a postpartum nurse and mom of 5

If you can collect colostrum, it's a very good thing to bring to the hospital to have baby eat in the first few hours before your milk comes in. If it takes a day for your milk to come in, think about how open you are to using formula to feed baby in those first few hours.
We used formula provided byb the hospital just to make sure baby was fed while my milk was taking its time to come in. A fed baby is a happy baby, and those first meals aren't going to make our break your production so don't stress too much

Your milk typically won't come in immediately, it might take up to 2 days to really come in

I would avoid pumping until your babe is born. There was a great pumping q and a on one of the pods here and that’s what the consultant recommended because it can be risky

Milk production is triggered by birthing the placenta, and mature milk comes in after a few days sometimes up to a week. You will have colostrum prior to that even if you never leaked in pregnancy. Baby is much more efficient at getting it out and it is more than enough for them until your milk comes in

Once you're full term you can start pumping, I wasn't able to get anything till maybe 40+5, gave birth at 41+1. My milk supply was solid for 5 months before dipping.

this is excellent advice 😎👍

I never had colostrum before birth, breastfed for 2.5 years so I wouldn’t stress!

My milk took 4 days to come in. Until then baby still latched and got colostrum but I never leaked or produced any prior to her being born. And we didn't supplement until I went back to work. Trust the process! You should have a lactation consultant at the hospital to help as well

I ebf for 2 years and never got colostrum before birth. It's no indication of your future supply

Thank you ladies!!