C-section and milk supply

I will be having an elective C-section (due to previous emergency one) and was wondering about milk coming in. Last time it took at least 4-5 days before I had anything worth talking about and the pain was just so horrendous with my DS trying to latch and suck desperately for milk (that wasn't really there)...and I believe that this negatively affected the overall success of our BF experience

I would love to avoid this next time so was wondering if there was anything that can be done to encourage milk to come in pre c-section/delivery....

Thanks!

I had an emergency c-section with DS after about 6-8 hours of synto though, so some labour. I had milk within 36 hours and enough to feed 5 kids I reckon by 48 hours!

With DD (natural birth) it was more like 48 hours till my milk came in. I was much more shattered after this birth though than after the caesar (a very cruisy "emergency" after failure to progress), so maybe that made a difference? Friends that have had caesars under general or had very traumatic births seem to have found it takes longer for their milk to come in. Hopefully with an elective caesar this time, things will be easier for you. Sorry I don't know any tricks to speed up milk coming in.

Edited by BuzzyB

Hey,

I had an emergency CS with my first and my milk came in on day 3 and I had an elective for my second and my milk came in on day 3 again, and I had heaps! It would shoot out across the room when they were super full, Id take my breastpad off and it was like boom! milk everywhere lol