The most important thing to do right away....nurse as soon as you can after the birth. Make sure your dr/midwife/nurse know you want to do this immediately. Skin to skin contact is important too. Then in those first couple days nurse EVERY time they seem to want it. If your milk isn't coming in real quickly this is REALLY important cause that is what is going to make it come in. Don't say...oh she's not satisfied and give her a bottle, which is what alot of people do. Let her nurse as much as she wants. If the milk isn't coming in, she will make it come in. If you fill her tummy up, she won't have the need to suckle and thus not make the milk come in as well. I know it seems ridiculous at times how much they want to nurse but it is probably because there isn't much there yet. I know even with my second who nursed like a champ for the first moment, there were some times in the hospital where I couldn't get him off me for even a short time and my nipples were sore and bleeding/blistering a little, but I kept at it and it happened! Go to a LLL meeting near you BEFORE you deliver to get to know some people there so you know who you can call when you are having trouble and/or do some research about LCs in your area. Some LCs are good...some in hospitals just do it to have the extra letters after their names and get paid more and aren't really very helpful (experienced that with my first one). Don't let any of them give your baby a bottle or pacifier. Pacis and bottles are fine later on once they get the hang of it, but it is confusing to a brand new baby who is just learning.
You don't want to take alot of the herbs early on when they are so young because they do get passed through the milk and you have to take them in very large quanitites to make much difference. The mother's milk tea is ok, but the herbs in that are not really enough to do much (although drinking lots of tea gives you lots of fluids that you need). Fenugreek and blessed thistle are the main ones. And More milk plus supplement is good too (I think it has mostly the same stuff in it). Fenugreek helped me alot when I was pumping at work to help boost up my supply when it would get low from just mostly pumping and not nursing directly. Lots of water, good nutrition, oatmeal and dark beer are helpful too (just drink the beer right after a feeding so it has time to get out of your system).
Working privately with a LC will get you a lot better support than just talking to one in the class or seeing the hospital LC when you deliver. It's not the cheapest, though. If you want to go the class route and whatever LC ends up being at the hospital, I would strongly recommend having someone from LLL phone number, because as you prob know from your experience, they aren't around when you are having trouble alot of the time.
OH, and if you do end up with PPD....there are meds you can take that are ok to take while nursing. Don't take your Drs word for it, call an LC and check with them. Most Drs and most meds automatically say that it shouldn't be used with nursing cause they haven't done testing and want to cover their butts.
I highly recommend The Nursing Mother's Companion http://www.amazon.com/Nursing-Mothers-Companion-Revised/d...
I referred to it soooo many times when I didn't know what was going on.
Good luck!