For ladies who have delivered - what's the first 24 hours after you deliver in the hospital like?

After reading the other comments, I'm one of the lucky ones! My son was born at 7.57pm at 39 weeks gestation, and well - he basically decided to come out by a week earlier BUT he decided he needed to catch up on sleep. He spent a little while with me after I settled down in the room, then the nurse brought him back to the nursery because he fell asleep after trying to latch. The nurses were great in updating on him, but he just wanted his milk (formula at that time since my milk didn't come in yet) and he slept :x I stayed in a 2-bedded air-conditioned ward so it was pretty comfortable for me, was exhausted but texting my friends before I took some rest. The other mummy came in at around 10+pm, and she was with her baby the whole night - latching and crying, I kinda felt like she was so awesome for doing all these - but also thankful that my son gave me time to rest hehe. The nurses brought him over at regular intervals to try to latch and spend time together, but he was always sleepy - when he came awake, he'll fall asleep in my arms XD I ended up just telling the nurse to keep him in the nursery instead of wasting their energy, and bring him to me if there were any issues haha. My only visitors were my parents because my friends were in school and I told them not to visit until we give the green light - my most vivid memory was feeling embarrassed and sorry that the nurses had to help me with peeing in bed, and then subsequently the horror of trying to get down of bed and learning how to wash the vaginal wound x_x
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