I went to Royal North Shore hospital in Sydney, and this is what happened after my daughter was born.

*as soon as she was born, she was placed on my chest so we could cuddle and say hello.
*had to deliver the placenta and had some shot in my leg for somethingorother.
*midwife helped me start breastfeeding.
*ob checked me and stiched me up while they were doing the checks on Claire and measured her etc.
*Claire handed back to us so we could cuddle again and see "what we had". We didnt get know if we had a boy or girl. I forgot to ask when she came out!
*I got to have some lunch. I was absolutely starving!
*I was told to have a shower and go to the loo. The shower was great! The loo, not so great.
*then, I was wheeled downstairs to the ward in a wheelchair, and taken into my room.

Some of that might be out of order, but i think thats all that happened.

I think I stayed in the delivery suite doing the above things for about 2or 3 hours or so.

This thing that really annoyed me was that my family and the in-laws were waiting for me at the maternity ward when I got there after giving birth. I was just thinking, are you kidding?? I've not slept in over 30 hours and now you want to have chit-chat? GO AWAY! I had no privacy because they were all there (MIL WANTED to WATCH the nurses insert a catheter for me!! WTF?? ) and they didnt it get that maybe I wanted to rest and spend some time with my baby and husband without having a room full of people... so if I could do it all over again, I would tell people not to visit me in the first 24 hours. I really missed that special time, those first few hours, because all those people were there and now I cant get that back. Definately tell them you want time with baby first, if thats what you want.

At the hospital I went to, I was allowed to have two people there for support during the actual labour and birth. My sister arrived while I was in labour still and was told she had to wait outside the room. She was allowed in after Claire was born.. They were a lot more strict on visitors in the deliverty suite than they were in the ward. They were nice enough to ask me if I minded my sister coming in, so it was good that I was asked rather than them just letting every man and his dog come in. Probably different at other hsopitals though.