The online resource for issues concerning pregnant women, parenting, family, moms, and baby. During the first days following the birth of your baby, the breasts produce colostrum. Your body starts making colostrum between three and four months of pregnancy.
Colostrum can be a clear fluid or a deep golden color.
Colostrum doesn't have many calories, but it has the right amount of protein and other nutrients your baby needs in the first few days after birth. During those first days after birth, you may worry that your breastfed baby may dry up and blow away from lack of nutrition, but what colostrum lacks in volume it makes up for in power. It is exactly what your baby needs for it's first milk. It is full of antibodies and immunoglobulins, which not only help protect your baby as it comes into our world of bacteria and viruses, but it also has a laxative effect that helps baby pass the tarry first stool of meconium. And what a miracle it is that your body produces this golden elixir for your baby at no cost.