annie: my thinking is dont plan/think too much 1st..
for a start usually the 1st few days there is no milk, some ppl milk come in 3 days, 5 days, 7 days...and it is not enough for a baby which feed average 3 hourly. so definitely will need supplement with FM or those bottle FM that the hospital will give u...
for 3 days baby can tahan suckle even though no milk, cos they have reserve in their body. but after 3 days the reserves finish, and they need milk from other sources i.e. FM. of cos if the mother milk comes in 3 days, then good la...but for many cases i see, they dont...mine come in droplets on the 5th day.
even though my milk comes in 5th day, it still can't satisfy my baby and i got to alternate with FM, so i choose the last feed to be FM, so that bb can be full longer so that we can have sufficient rest too...CL also need rest...
but of cos, as my supply build up, i slowly adjust and convert to full BM...i only bought one tin of FM for the past 14 months.
again, this is my point of view...i last time used to plan and think, but things always dont go my way...cos we follow the baby leads by then