Hi,

Babies are born (under normal circumstances) primed to breastfeed. keep your baby close, and breastfeed him whenever he shows signs (if he is close to you you will notice the signs - stirring, mouthing, sucking hands - by the time he gets to crying it's a very late sign that he wants to be fed! Generally babies kept skin to skin with their mother will feed within the first hour after birth. They may then sleep for a while, before feeding again. Clusters of feeds will be normal at some times, while they will have longish sleeps at other times - and having no idea of day and night, many feeds will be at night.
If your baby is feeding frequently many others don't feel engorged. It's not necessarily part of the deal! Much of the engorgement mothers feel is lymph fluid, blood etc as well as milk. There's a lot going on in those breasts.
In hospitals these days we often put a few "trouble-shooting mechanisms" in place - so we tell mums to feed their babies maybe every 3 hours or so. This can be helpful especially if you have had a cesarean or medicated birth. Often these babies don't give the normal signals that they want to feed.
If you haven't yet, make sure you join the Australian Breastfeeding Association and go to one of their classes. They are great, and will tune you in to how breastfeeding works and what's normal and what's not in the early days and beyond.