I had three un dxd pregnancies. With some notable exceptions, they went OK. I did not have PPD but after the first two births I had horrible intrusive thoughts in regards to my doing harm to my babies against my wishes. The third post partum period was a breeze without any intrusive thoughts, just pure bliss with the baby. All my problems with parenting and family life (my children now do not live with me) developed later - in the world of diapers, breastmilk and homemade babyfood I was a complete and happy natural. Also, I stayed home with the second and third child and was much happier and more relaxed this way than with my first child, whom I sent to daycare at 5 mos when I returned to grad school. I had an unsupporive husband, the stress of the coursework, other stresses, and what can I say - I ended up calling the suicide line. Remarkably, a school PhD counselor who was seeing me weekly and knew about the call still did not route me to a p-doc, and my diagnosis came 13 years later than it should have.

Based on all of this experience, my advice is to take it very easy post-partum and ENJOY! I can also tell you that from my experience, and it is just one datapoint that you can disregard, it seems that having unmedicated birth greatly aids bonding. I had unmedicated birth the third time around and I bonded immediately and strongly with the baby. But perhaps other factors were at play.