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I woke up in recovery after 2-3 hours I think. My husband was sitting next to me and LO was in a bassinet right next to the bed. As soon as the nurse thought I was steady enough, she stripped us down for skin to skin. We hung out like that for a while until I needed to be checked again and then my husband accompanied LO to the nursery for her heel pricks and things and I met them back in our actual room about an hour later. I don't know if it affected breastfeeding - she ended up in the NICU that night for a week because she was having a variety of issues (hence the emergency csection) and I think that had the biggest impact. I pumped endlessly but we never got the hang out the latch and frankly, with all of the other things going on, it didnt make it a priority.

I woke up in the recovery room very shortly after- not more than an hour had past. DH was with a nurse and DD across the room. I'm not exactly sure what all they were doing because I was so sleepy. But when they saw I was awake DH brought her to me and after a few minutes the nurse asked if I wanted to try breastfeeding. So we had some skin to skin and she latched on immediately.

My only issue with breastfeeding was that it took 5 days for my milk to come in. No one told me it could take so long and DD lost a lot of weight. On the fourth day I supplemented with formula and she sucked it down (poor thing was so hungry!). I began pumping like crazy and my milk finally came in the next day. I never needed to supplement with formula after that and we breastfed with no further issues until she was 21 months.