Engorgement is such an ever present postpartum hurdle to endure when you make the important decision to nurse your baby in order to provide breast milk as their sole source of nutrition. It is a feeling you can't quite describe until you endure it, and then it becomes a feeling you quickly wish to never have to experience again... ouch! If you are new to the breastfeeding world and have a newborn you're learning to nurse - it is likely that you have heard, read or seen somewhere that colostrum is the first source of nutrition your baby will receive once breastfeeding is initiated after birth. Colostrum is the milk that your body begins to produce at a particular point in pregnancy (as early as your second trimester), regardless of how close you are to delivering. It is chalked full of nutrients at a higher density level than what your mature milk will consist of as breastfeeding continues and your milk becomes composed of what your baby tells your body to provide. ...