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Typically, a cesarean is not what you expected. I imagined a natural birth in which I saw my baby being born, amid cries and tears of joy, and within seconds, he was on my chest, skin to skin, but this time out of the body. A cesarean section is heartbreaking, it is hard to recover emotionally from it. A cesarean section is crude.
But there is one thing a cesarean section does not do: does not prevent breastfeeding. Nor does it make it difficult. It may be the protocols related to it in a particular hospital, not the intrinsic practice. So let's talk about the myths around cesarean section and breastfeeding.
A cesarean section does not delay the rise in milk
It is not true that when a cesarean section takes place the rise of milk is delayed. The mechanism of raising or lowering the milk is put into operation with the expulsion or delivery of the placenta; and takes place between 24 and 72 hours after delivery or the "surgical operation that is done by opening the womb to remove the baby" (RAE). 
Cesarean scar allows for painless breastfeeding positions
There are postures that allow the baby to breastfeed without pain; some of them are:
- Sitting (or slightly lying down or even lying on your back) with a nursing pillow on the abdomen to protect the scar and raise the baby to chest level.
- Lying on your side, the baby next to you, both facing each other.
- Sitting with the baby in the "rugby" position, in which the baby's body passes under the mother's arm and her feet pointing toward the back.
It's not the cesarean, it's the separation
What can be a problem is that skin-to-skin contact is not carried out, a forced separation of the baby and the mother, which distresses both, which makes the baby very tired when they finally meet to breastfeed, etc.
It is important, for this reason, that except in exceptional cases in which it is necessary for medical reasons, skin-to-skin contact is carried out. Fortunately, this is how it is currently being done in most hospitals. Ask for the action protocol in each case, choose your hospital, and write your birth plan.
Cesarean section makes you a wonderful mom
Had something else crossed your mind? Cesarean section makes you the best mom in the world. It is hard to assimilate, but there you are, together, embraced, everything has happened, it is on your chest, it has fallen asleep nursing ... the other is the "war scar", as my friend Sara says, "love scar".
Note: My baby was born in an emergency cesarean section and we have been breastfeeding happily for seventeen months.