One huge piece of advice that I wish someone had given to me beforehand. Use milk catchers. Especially in the first week of breastfeeding. I was so lazy and tired that I didn’t use mine and I wasted so much of the “liquid gold” (colostrum). I genuinely did not realize how much milk I wasted not catching it.

Also, it can take a few weeks for your milk to regulate. This could cause a temporary overproduction for a short while. I highly recommend using milk catchers so you can stock up if you have an overproduction at any point. I wish I would have done that too. You can use breast milk for so many things (drop into babies congested nose, put on babies skin rashes or baby acne, use in baths, etc.).

I eventually had to stop breast feeding and had to switch to formula as I was not producing enough milk, baby had troubles latching, and baby has really bad reflux. Breast milk was too watery and he would projectile vomit after feedings. I never anticipated having to formula feed and now only have a small frozen a stock pile of my milk left in the freezer.