How do you feed your baby enough in the first few days before your milk comes in?

Breastfeed on demand. How you feed baby in the first few weeks makes a big impact on your milk supply. Your body is doing perfect at giving baby what they want/need. Keep putting baby on that boob every time

The more you can get baby to latch, milk supply will come in faster. In the first few days they really only need those tiny bits of concentrated colostrum that you are producing. Liquid gold!!

It is absolutely fine. Collostrum is called golden for a reason. There is ssooooooo much nutrition in there. Feed on demand and trust you and your baby.

Feed on demand. The first week is super hard because you have to feed all the time, but if you keep latching baby, your milk will come in and you'll lost likely have a good supply. On the second night of having ny baby at home, he was up every 10 minutes for 9 HOURS! I spent 9 hours breastfeeding him with 10 minute breaks in between. The next night, I had so much milk already.

Their stomach can only take 3ml at a time at the beginning. Your supply increases (even of colostrum) as their stomach does. You won't be able to notice a change in your supply from drops to 1ml to 3ml to 5ml to 10ml but it will. Then your milk comes in as baby's stomach gets to 10ml to 30ml and your supply increases too. Baby will feed constantly and that's normal. Its the mechanism of how your body works to increase the supply. The 3ml in there has to be removed by baby so that you produce another 3ml and maybe 4ml the next time. Expect hourly feeds (cluster feed) or even more frequent in the beginning few weeks! It's normal. It's not a sign of low supply. You can see baby has enough by them a) regaining weight (will lose up to 10% of birthweight in the first days as they lose the amniotic fluid of the lungs and the sticky layer on their skin) and b) doing enough wet nappies for their age. Don't listen to family who don't understand cluster feeding as it's different from bottle feeding. You got this!