I answered I was somewhat prepared, I felt I had enough at the time.

I went to the classes at the hospital, read on bf via ABA and BellyBelly websites and had friends who had or were having successful bf relationships with their bubs, so I was sure that I would be breastfeeding my DD for about 12 mths. I also watched Sue can't think of her surnames video about bf once I had DD.

When DD was born, I was in recovery and had asked to feed her there but the paed. was doing her apgar scores etc.... so I didn't get to feed her until I was t'fered to my room. MW atached DD but then all my family come in to see her and I took her off for them to cuddle her - I thought I'd be able to latch her back on no probs, little did I know that I would need help. Also DD had low blood sugar, so ff top-ups were recommended, which I agreed to b/c she was only just born and thought it would be just through the night. MW's bought DD into me throughout the night - 4 hourly as I had a c-section and was bed ridden for the night. After that I should have buzzed the midwives every feed but I didn't cos they would take too long to get to me and I thought, well the MW's aren't coming home with me so I better learn to do this myself and in the end I would just try to latch on DD myself, which was probably the cause of my cracked and blistered nipples.
My milk was taking quite sometime to come in and DD started to get unsettled and want more, which I didn't seem to be satisfing her, so the top-ups began. I started expressing and was still producing colostrum and I think the most I ever expressed was 20mls. I ended up going home on day 8, with my milk still not in and me becoming anxious everytime I had to feed DD plus my nipples flatening out, getting blocked ducts and then mastitis. MW suggested staying for another night, but I declined b/c I wanted to go home and start our life together as a family. After much angst and chats with DH and MW I decided to ff DD, as I thought it would be best - mentally for me. In hindsight I should have persevered, contacted the ABA, went back to the hospital and used their lactation classes (something I didn't know about until DD was 8 weeks old).... I probably could have bf and ff until my milk come in, then exclusively bf.