text: Every woman is different, but you should be able to still breastfeed. As soon as your baby is born iniate skin to skin contact and ask the midwife to help you breastfeed, the sooner you commence breastfeeding the better, even if baby only has a few sucks it all helps to stimulate the production of milk, try not to have pethidine in labour as this can make your baby sleepy in the first 24 hours. Your consultant will probably tell you that you can't breastfeed, but remember they tend to deal with general surgery and not midwifery. Most hospitals in the UK have breast feeding advisors that you can talk to before your baby is born.