ok apparently I am completely stupid. how does baby get fed if it can be days before your milk comes…

Cluster feeding and colostrum. There's a pre-milk that you have before your actual milk comes in and baby will feed like every half hour or so and that helps bring your milk in. I believe I got all that right haha. I had a lot of complications last pregnancy so this info is from memory of research rather than experience lol.

Colostrum

And you're not stupid. You're not just automatically born with that knowledge. And once baby is here you'll realize you know a lot more than you give yourself credit for thanks to mother's instinct :)

I had a lot of complications as well and wasn't able to breastfeed feed due to being in icu for 3 weeks. so I am completely lost and freaking out

@teambarnes, you're right lol my baby cluster fed nonstop. Milk came in perfectly.

thank you all for the help. I feel much better