Sara, when the mother became pregnant her breast went back to producing  
colostrum and is not producing toddler milk any more.
The colostrum is present for several days.  Transition milk is a  mixture of 
colostrum and mature milk and it takes up to 14 days before mothers  have full 
mature milk.  I am not talking volume just composition of  milk.  
The only way I could see a newborn being deprived of the colostrum is that  
the baby does not eat for several days after delivery.  (Why would this  
happen?  Nothing would seem to fit that scenario.)  So both the  newborn and the 
toddler can be nursing.  The newborn will get colostrum and  so will the toddler.
If a newborn is not nursing well or having any problems then the mother  
could express her milk to give the newborn so the infant still gets the  colostrum.
 

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