To really dislike those Bounty packs that get forced upon us, whether we want them or not?

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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised since everything is a commodity today. But for some reason I find them in such poor taste. You go for a booking appointment with a midwife, so very early on in a pregnancy and it's an opportunity for you to be bombarded with advertisements for oak cots and so on...

I feel it's not entirely appropriate that healthcare providers buy into this kind of thing and endorse it and I felt the same when I was given one after dd2 was born and I barely had the energy to mumble 'I don't want one thanks'

I brought mine home, looked through it all for coupons I may use then recycled the bits I didn't want.

it is the advertisers who pay for the stuff. which is why you can have it in thefirst place.
if you dont want it, just say no

ungrateful?! HA!

The lid off my dinky Sudocreme pot kept coming off and covering everything in the poxy stuff. Still loved it though. So cute!

After dd my 'overnight essentials' bounty pack contained a full sized bottle of comfort?????????

In which parallel universe does a new mother on her first night with her newborn, have an overwhelming urge to fabric condition about 20 washes of clothes?

Would have rofl, if it wasn't for my stiches.......

After dd my 'overnight essentials' bounty pack contained a full sized bottle of comfort?????????

In which parallel universe does a new mother on her first night with her newborn, have an overwhelming urge to fabric condition about 20 washes of clothes?

Would have rofl, if it wasn't for my stiches.......

i felt upset that i was offered nothing as my baby had only 70% of living after birth i was treated as i was never going to become a mummy and that was even when she was born!!! she is 3 in november so maybe i had the biggest gift of all

heartmummy, that is so and really naughty of them..

I liked the Bounty packs.

Found the little pots for Sudocreme very handy.

Just sifted through for things that I could use and got rid of the rest.

Yes, ungrateful!!! Try having a baby in another country and see how many freebies and niceties you get!

rant rant

YA soooooo BU.

I luuuuurved the Bounty packs.

It's free stuff. What's not to like?

I liked all the freebies I got when I had DS, it gave me something to look at while I was waiting for the Dr to do his discharge examination. I had DD is Ireland and you get nothing! No leaflets, samples etc. She didnt even have a sheet for her cot and we had to provide blankets!

Emma's diary was pants but I loved the little book that came in the Bounty Pack I got when in maternity ward after giving birth - was a darned sight more use than the Baby Whisperer or even the NHS Pregnancy and Birth book! Also free pot of sudocrem, fab, DS is still using the little tub of Milk Teeth toothpaste, and having the form for child benefit there ready was fab. Ditched the rest (in the recycling bin naturally!).

What's to complain about - seems ungrateful to me.

Bounty packs are horrible.

98% junk which ink and paper shouldn't be wasted on in he first place, advertising overpriced tat.

The Bounty Lady barged into my room - still in the High Dependency Unit - and brazenly asked my name. I told her that if she did not already know it then she had no business knowing it and to leave.

She is lucky i couldn't get out of bed and was still in mental shock or i would have kicked her ass out myself and given her a mouthful.

How dare the hospital allow people to barge into your private space when you could have gone through any range of gawd awful experiences. The last thing I want on a normal day is to have shite flogged at me.

YANBU - they are vile. I think that advertising to new mothers in this way is really horrid.

foxytocin - I couldn't agree more. After having dd1 I was left absolutely reeling - I literally didn't know what had hit me. I think that whatever the circumstances, when you have just had a baby you are left feeling a bit vulnerable for a while.

For me, Bounty represents shameless targeting of new mothers in the interest of corporate profit only, but is masqueraded as some sort of kind gesture that we are supposed to be grateful for!

And I think it is very wrong that unless you accept the thing, you miss out on your child benefit form...

heartmummy, bounty still sent me a pack every 3 months or so after my stillbirth and it was pretty upsetting to be honest. Once you are on their list it's virtually impossible to get removed, so I expect that was their reason for leaving you off.

The mini pots of sudocreme that used to be in them were so useful!!

KVC - Emma's Diary is 'a week by week guide to your pregnancy'. It is written like a diary.

I was in for 5 days with DTs and I got two packs every day off the Bounty Lady. I kept hold of the free stuff and coupons and chucked the rest.

It was the hard sell on the photos which annoyed me more - I've worked in sales all my life and can definitely say no in high pressure sales pitches but even I succumbed on the last day. (cos the picture of them together in the cot was so cute!!)

Oh yes, I remember the photos - awful too. To be honest I think in many ways hospitals are not good places to have a baby if things are likely to be straightforward.

the packs have the odd useful freebie. But I don't think photo selling or bounty employees should be allowed on any postnatal wards.