I gave birth at a "baby friendly hospital". The one where there are no nurseries and the baby has to stay in your room, you have mandatory 2 hours of skin to skin time right after birth, you have no access to formula unless medically necessary and pacifiers are also "banned". You are "encouraged" to breastfeed only. I had a great experience while laboring (even though it was 23 hours and I was absolutely exhausted and almost rushed to the emergency c-section). The staff was helpful and kind. Boy was the picture different once I gave birth. My baby was born with fetal growth restriction so he was underweight and needed extra food so graciously the hospital gave us some very limited amount of formula but refused to provide nipples and insisted that we feed with finger and surigne method. I had to pump and hand express colostrum every 1-2 hours for 30 mins, baby had to be fed every 2 hours as well and then I had to supplement with formula so each feeding for me was about 1-1.5 hours so I'd have maybe 30 mins of rest when the whole thing would have to be repeated. Plus the doctors visits, plus the ordeal of trying to pee with a wrecked v-jay, plus pain... I haven't slept for more than 50 hours at that point... It was a nightmare. And all this time I was worried sick that there's something wrong with my son due to his low weight.