I would love to do the breast crawl if there is a next time because to me it makes sense at least for the first breastfeed to allow the baby to follow their instincts. I felt under a lot of pressure (from myself and my own reading) to attempt to breastfeed within 30 minutes. I felt I HAD to do it otherwise I was dooming our BF journey to disaster.

But TBH, I really didn't want to do skin on skin immediately. I'd had a very long labour with very little sleep (7 hours in 3 days followed by 3 hours of pushing and a forceps birth) and, I know this is a bit taboo, but I just wanted to be on my own and sleep.

I really felt under pressure to have skin on skin and to attempt breastfeeding when I felt that the time wasn't right. Maybe I just didn't want the skin on skin because I thought that I would then be pressured to attempt a breastfeed. Dunno ... but yep, next time I think the breastcrawl in baby's own time (and mum's own time) is the way to go.