Reading back over this is interesting. I've now had baby #2 and whilst I was again induced and had quite a medicalised birth, we did a few things differently. Namely immediate skin-to-skin and breastfeeding in the birth suite shortly after he was born - he did the breast crawl and everything We also didn't announce the birth until the next morning (he was born shortly after 9pm and we didn't get back to the ward till after midnight) and had no visitors until the next afternoon - it was just us. He did have to spend a couple of hours away from me under the warmers as he was struggling to maintain his temperature, but I still felt like we had bonded with him a lot better as those first precious few hours weren't disrupted.