Ignorance is bliss

What happens in the first 72 hours is a feeding frenzy.

Hard enough on any babymomma, but a total endurance test after a c-section. I had no idea that was usual for a newborn as when Jambeans was born I was facing the completely different, but probably less physically demanding ordeal of expressing. And to be fair, at that time I was going home to a full night's sleep in my comfy bed while she was being cooked for a bit longer in the incubator at hospital under the watchful eye of highly trained neonatal nurses.

Would all this knowledge have changed my mind about the op? Probably not, so in retrospect, it helped that I was totally ignorant about it otherwise it would have made the decision much harder.