Best gift for support after C Section?

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Posting for traffic - what would you get to help recovery?

What's your budget?

The best present I got was payment for a cleaner for two months ....

A cooked meal was great.

A selection of nice body lotions etc was appreciated.

One of those feeding pillows?

Depending on your budget, Cook do a range of new parents boxes with really nice freezer meals.
www.cookfood.net/menu/meal-boxes/new-parents

Best thing we were given post c-section, and made things much easier for my husband who was busy looking after me and baby without worrying about cooking on top.

Things I really appreciated:

Lovely high thread count pillowcases
L’occitane body lotion
Good quality bed socks
A little hamper of really nice chocolates and nuts and dried fruit.

It was the exhaustion from blood loss in my first section that I struggled with, rather than the surgery site itself.

Practical help like a cooked meal or delivered food, or a nice hamper would have been what I would have liked.

A hug would’ve meant the world to me!

Food and cleaning. My mum brought me a shepherd's pie and cleaned my bathroom. Cost her a few quid and meant more than anything else.

A good thermos drinking flask to keep my tea warm and not have to keep getting up. Meant I could just snuggle, feed and relax.

Agree with others on food and cleaning help :)

A 'V' pillow & doing some cleaning and ironing.

Hold the baby while Mum naps

@peoniesandpastels

Depending on your budget, Cook do a range of new parents boxes with really nice freezer meals. www.cookfood.net/menu/meal-boxes/new-parents

Best thing we were given post c-section, and made things much easier for my husband who was busy looking after me and baby without worrying about cooking on top.

Do not buy these, some people don't like freezer meals, they're lower quality than fresh food. Plus the time they take to make them is much longer than a quick stir fry or something would take.

I got two of these after my last section and I'm only using them to get rid of them and free up space but the food I make myself is much nicer. Plus I like the half an hour to myself away from the baby to make dinner.

A cleaner would be a good gift but would depend on wether the person could leave the r house easily. I live in the sticks and couldn't drive for 6 weeks so wouldn't have wanted a cleaner there while I was at home with a newborn.

Maybe a voucher for a beauty salon? It was a break for me once I felt human again to go and get my hair done on my own.

Practical help would probably be most appreciated. A meal delivered etc.

I had two older kids at school when I had a C Section. The gift I still remember 30 years later was a week or two later someone bought me an ironing service for two large bin bags of ironing. Washing isn't hard with a machine but ironing was difficult and the older ones needed clothes and it does build up.

Well you would just buy a gift for the baby as is the norm surely, maybe flowers for the mum that type of thing?

Cook meals were so appreciated here! I didn't have a c section but wasn't well. We weren't specifically bought new parents Cook meals but a selection of meals you just heat in the oven.

I was hoping for tips myself for a friend but so far the replies are all things relevant to any type of delivery. Perhaps there isn't much specific need?

Wouldn’t you just buy whatever you normally would?

I had one natural birth and one c section and wouldn’t have expected anything different . Tbh the c section was my second, so actually got far less help! Which was actually fine as I felt fine.

www.ikea.com/sg/en/p/omsorg-shoehorn-black-20421231/

Long IKEA shoe horn so you don't have to bend down to put on your shoes. Best buy during pregnancy and after c section.

Anything but bloody flowers!

I kept getting flowers from people. They are the most usless gift to give a new mother. Espeically one who's had a c section. You have to find a vase change the water or they stink. Hated it!

If breastfeeding a big water bottle, cake/flapjacks and chores doing. Purfumed stuff like body washes are not good post surgery.

The expert midwife has some nice stuff. The no halm nipple balm is amazing for breastfeeding they may have some post section stuff too.

It can be really good to help out with something like housework but if not some nice things for the bath and a fresh pjs everyone loves new pjs make her a little care / pamper package like a mini bottle of champagne, pjs , bath bomb , candle , chocolate & some nice cream maybe some Aragon oil for the hair & you can get all that stuff in a pound shop

@Cuddlyrottweiler that is so weird my mum made me a shepherds pie & cleaned my bathrooms

A thermos for tea or coffee, snack foods like nice biscuits in a tin. I liked books so I could sit and breastfeed and read.

@Cuddlyrottweiler

Food and cleaning. My mum brought me a shepherd's pie and cleaned my bathroom. Cost her a few quid and meant more than anything else.

We had a baby in Covid lockdown far from family, but this is exactly what I would have liked.

@annmarie3

It can be really good to help out with something like housework but if not some nice things for the bath and a fresh pjs everyone loves new pjs make her a little care / pamper package like a mini bottle of champagne, pjs , bath bomb , candle , chocolate & some nice cream maybe some Aragon oil for the hair & you can get all that stuff in a pound shop

Pound shop pyjamas and smellies would have been my worst nightmare and all gone straight to the charity shop.

It’s a funny old world, isn’t it?! OP, you probably know the person best, we can’t chose for you.