"Well the baby in the OP does have a nursery to go in and does have dedicated staff to look after it. So that's alright then."
Do the 'dedicated staff' (who are probably maternity support workers or nursery nurses) give the babies skin to skin contact then? Sit and hold them for hours on end on their chests? Because this is what most babies would probably choose I suspect.
"this worked for both me and the baby!"
From a baby's point of view, how does being separated from its mother and being fed by a stranger with formula milk improve the experience of immediate postnatal life? Above being cuddled by his or her mother and fed on colostrum?
Also - when a baby is actually awake after birth (and admittedly there is often a lot of sleeping going on initially), one of the things they do is stare and stare and stare at their mothers faces. And turn instinctively towards the sound of her voice. How is it for a baby to be passed from person to person - everyone smelling different, sounding different, looking different. Being held against a nylon uniform that maybe smells of smoke, or perfume, or deodorant or alcohol hand rub? Searching faces it will never get to see again.
"I am truly amazed at other poster's being VERY certain their ideas on what constitutes good mummying is correct above all others."
Actually we know pretty much what constitutes optimal care for newborns. The fact that some parents (myself included - I have got many things wrong as a parent) can't or won't provide this, sometimes (often) through no fault of their own, is a fact of life and something we all have to accept.
But to make formal arrangements for providing this suboptimal care in hospital for the most vulnerable humans, usually for institutional reasons (can't be arsed to provide enough midwives to give women the postnatal support which would meet their care needs, while also supporting them to nurture their newborn babies) rather than for social and medical reasons - well, I think it's insupportable. 