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Original poster

to pack hair straighteners and blow dryer in my labour bag..........

44 replies

notsolilKel · 10/05/2007 13:32

.....this will be my second time round and last time I found the hair dryer useful. Esp as I was in hospital for a week (DS went to special care). This time round I'm expecting c-section and another multi-night stay at the glorious chalet West Middlesex. My hairstyle has changed and the look defo calls for nice straight locks. So...

Pls someone else tell me they're also taking hair straighteners!!

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tobysmumkent · 10/05/2007 13:35

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suwoo · 10/05/2007 13:36

I was booked in for elective section and took my GHD's (vain bitch that I am) didn't use them though as you can tell from my profile pic.

Manictigger · 10/05/2007 13:39

If you have the energy to bother with your hair after having a baby I salute you! But I preferred to spend any spare time sleeping

greedygreedyguzzler · 10/05/2007 13:40

how funny!!!!!!!!

i felt a bit weird taking make up in with me, but lets face it all they do is sleep to begin with anyway, and the rest of you feels fat and horrible so why not feel happy and look beautiful from the neck up!!??

bananabump · 10/05/2007 13:41

Why not! Take anything that makes you feel better. You wont be able to take those first pics over again!

FLIER · 10/05/2007 13:42

i remember the snooty reply i got on ivillage board when i posted asking if i should take my hairdryer-as if to say all mum should look shite.
I think you should take them. i actually bought gas powered ones to take in with me. I didn't use them in the end, so just took them back

kslatts · 10/05/2007 14:00

Are you allowed to use your own electrical products in hospital?

I don't think you are being unreasonable, I took make-up with me and felt much better after my c-section when I had had a shower and put some make-up on.

twobabies · 10/05/2007 14:02

We have to have all electrical things tested before we are allowed to take them into hossy with us. But if your allowed why not? you'll be the glamist mummy in all the ward

tombley · 10/05/2007 14:06

I took mine both times. Nobody said I had to have them checked and did indeed feel a million times better returning to the ward clean, fresh and for for human consumption. - 16 hours of labour can, I find play havoc with your hair.

daisybump · 10/05/2007 14:06

LOL Lilkel ...you go girl!

suwoo · 10/05/2007 14:07

Our hospital allowed phones and chargers to be freely used....so much easier! They don't seem to bother about electrical items as much now.

babygrand · 10/05/2007 14:08

I think you're completely nuts. Childbirth and looking after a new baby must have got a lot easier since I did it. I don't think I even cleaned my teeth for about three weeks after the birth of the first. Hair straighteners???

MissGolightly · 10/05/2007 14:11

We were specifically told we couldn't take anything that plugged in, in case our dodgy electrics started a fire. I would imagine that would go triple for hair straighteners! But if you think you can get them past the midwives (and will have the energy) then go for it. Personally I have not blow-dried my hair since DS was born, and he was one last month

bananabump · 10/05/2007 14:27

You can get gas powered hair dryers/straighteners which won't affect the electrics or cause a fire. If you have the energy, go for it, I say!

Tabkat · 10/05/2007 14:28

I took hairdryer and straighteners too - mind you after my cs I also had my lipstick straight on as soon as was wheeled into the recovery room!

tombley · 10/05/2007 14:38

I think some of the posters on here are blessed with naturally normal hair, and obviously do not understand what it is to have psychotic hair. I have 2 children, neither of whom are fond of sleeping at night but never has a day gone by in the last five and a half years when I have not done my hair. That includes during and directly after labour. NOT because I want to but because I have to.

Rantum · 10/05/2007 14:43

I would take them - had an AWFUL shorn hair cut when pg - so hairstyling was not an option (never cutting hair during pg again!). I did take make up though and it made me feel marginally better about my swollen face and battered body knowing that I had at least made an effort. DS slept alot those first few days so utting me slap on gave me something to do to pass the time (other than sleep which was obviously my first priority!).

Rantum · 10/05/2007 14:43

putting

Radley · 10/05/2007 14:47

You may find that you have to put them on the nurses station for a while to be checked over electrically, same with the hair dryer, if that doesn't happen your in luck, but if they don't get it checked they are breaching health and safety.

Nbg · 10/05/2007 14:49

I just pmsl at the thread title and thought you must be deluded lol.

But just read your having a section.
I'd take them.

Original poster
notsolilKel · 10/05/2007 14:51

all of this is emormously reassuring thank you

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chocolattegirl · 10/05/2007 14:55

If you have time/inclination to use them then good luck.

I thought this was why hair grows faster when you're pg - so you can hoik it back in a clip after giving birth and it stays put. A bit of grease in the hair always helps to keep the style .

Manictigger · 10/05/2007 16:22

No Tombley, some of us are just naturally scruffy, or lazy (or both, like me )

LieselVentouse · 10/05/2007 16:51

Im taking my straighters

bananabump · 10/05/2007 19:25

I'm so disorganised and lazy with my hair I'll be impressed if I remember to pack a brush! At least mine dries fairly straight though I suppose.