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Trying to find out if this has a proper name? (midwives/medical)

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DN4GeekinDerby · 13/08/2018 23:55

After the birth of my second child 11 years ago, one of the midwives who came to my house gave me a pair really cool white flexible but really sturdy medical bowls. Bit hazy on what she said due to time passing and it being right after labour, but she said something like they're typically used for one medical thing but since they hadn't been used them (I want to say catch the placenta but I could be wrong, that placenta was caught by a paramedic in a medical bag shortly before the midwife arrived), that I could keep the bowls and use them for sitz baths for soothing the area or even for constipation. I've loved these things for years and have been really helpful for me. I've tried to find their proper name a few times but haven't come up with anything but tonight before I try sleeping again I thought of trying to ask on here because sometimes I want to recommend them to others but even if I show them to people, they're just slightly tall white plastic flexible medical bowls which googling doesn't really bring anything useful up.

This is a bit of a tired ramble as hot flushes and aches have been bothering my sleep, but I just had the thought someone here might know. If any midwives or other medical professionals or others who have one know what they're called could tell me, I would appreciate it as I still have them over 11 years on now.

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HoleyCoMoley · 14/08/2018 00:01

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PerspicaciaTick · 14/08/2018 00:04

Can you give approx. dimensions? It's just that a placenta is pretty big but I'm imagining a bowl small enough to slosh water between your legs during postnatal weeing.
Is there a manufacturer's logo on the base of the bowl?

SillyBub · 14/08/2018 00:05

Can you post a photo, OP?

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Petalflowers · 14/08/2018 00:11

sponge bowl ?

kidney bowl ?

DN4GeekinDerby · 14/08/2018 11:18

Thanks to everyone so far. It's close to the sponge bowl, but not quite - it's a lot rounder on the sides and the lip at the top is very thin.

The dimensions are around 17cm across and 11ishcm deep. The sides are very sturdy and bendy so if you fill it with water and then squat over it, it bends around your backside which is why it's helpful for sitz bath I guess. I have no idea if they're commonly used that way or if it was just that particular lovely homebirth midwife's idea.

Trying to find out if this has a proper name? (midwives/medical)
Trying to find out if this has a proper name? (midwives/medical)
Trying to find out if this has a proper name? (midwives/medical)
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TakeAChanseyOnMe · 14/08/2018 11:20

I haven’t seen anything like that. Bowls used in theatres are metal so they can be autoclaved and others are cardboard disposable ones.

PerspicaciaTick · 14/08/2018 11:42

Confession time. That looks very similar to the large plastic pudding bowl that we got our Christmas pudding in. And which I used post childbirth because of the flexibility of the plastic. Blush

HoleyCoMoley · 14/08/2018 11:53

I wonder if it's the same sort of bowl we used to mix plaster of Paris in, have you looked at surgical supply websites. It does look like a Christmas pud bowl thoughShock

mygrandchildrenrock · 14/08/2018 12:18

Another vote for Christmas pud bowl, you can get them in red or white depending on where you buy your pud! [santa]

DN4GeekinDerby · 14/08/2018 12:45

TakeAChanseyOnMe Great name! It came out of her homebirth kit bag so I'm thinking maybe it's specifically for that (plastic is likely easier to carry than metal) or maybe they aren't used anymore as this was over 11 years ago - she did talk about them as disposable so possibly replaced with a more environmentally friendly non-plastic version.

PerspicaciaTick I think that's great and creative!

I've never made or had a British Christmas pudding so I had no idea that they looked like this. The idea my homebirth midwife put stacks of large Christmas pudding bowls in her kit bag to pass out to mothers is really funny to me. This has become an odd mystery.

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Mrsemcgregor · 14/08/2018 13:33

Totally a Christmas pudding bowl 😂

bonzo77 · 14/08/2018 14:26

(Dental) Alginate mixing bowl. Come in loads of colours. rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F232842938621

CadiM · 14/08/2018 15:50

We used to have those in our delivery packs, two small disposable plastic bowls for "washing down" and a bigger non-disposable bowl / jug thing for the placenta. I would often leave the bowls behind as they were good for top-and-tails and shame to waste them. Now our homebirth packs don't contain any bowls so we have to be creative how we catch the placenta. But I agree with the above, v. similar to Christmas pudding bowls.

DN4GeekinDerby · 15/08/2018 15:24

Thanks for the pudding basin link KatieMarieJ, that looks almost identical except for the lid and my bowl seems a bit rounder. Even in looking at medical places before, I've not seen that and I'd never in a million years would have guessed pudding basin!

CadiM That's interesting to hear (and mildly reassuring that someone else has heard of these in a non-pudding situation Grin ). I do recall them coming out of the pack as a wrapped up pair so maybe they're the smaller disposable bowls rather than the placenta one. They are very good for many things and kinda sad to hear that they've been discontinued both in that it makes it more awkward for you and new mums missing out on them. I would very much recommend them even if it's odd to call them pudding basins.

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NicoAndTheNiners · 15/08/2018 15:30

Gallipot

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