You will only have one hand free and be lying on your back with tubes coming out of you. Holding a baby is pretty well impossible on your own like that. Better idea is just tell your surgeon to get a grip, it will be happening. Evidence shows us that skin to skin is crucial in so many ways to our early relationships with our babies and it's really no drama for you to be supported in that way. A naked baby left with a naked mama, with intact vernix, will slowly find it's way to the boob and latch on. With surgery the baby has received drugs which can slow it down, and you've had an epidural plus saline IV to counteract some of the effects of the epidural and that makes you retain fluid in your nipples. Those two things can make it harder for a baby to do what it's programmed to do, find a boob and start to latch on.

You don't need luck to establish breastfeeding, mostly you need education, information and support. Join the ABA while you're pregnant, get their information on bfing after surgery, go to some information seminars, spend time with breastfeeding mamas. Starting with surgery can make it more complex but if you learn lots and have plans and ideas about dealing with any contingency, you are already streets ahead than most of us are with first babies. My vaginally born baby crawled up my body and latched herself on when I was still sitting upright in the birth pool and she was 30 minutes old. My caesarean born son latched on pretty well the first time we met but was so tired and sad after our forced separation that he just had a little cry and went to sleep. We boobed fine for 2 1/2 years after 8 days without milk at the start. You have some parenting decisions to make and planning to breastfeed is a great one