What did you wear....?

[monkey]

Ok, I know it isn't the biggest problem in the world, but just wondered what you wore

• to actually go to the hospital?
• for the delivery?

(With ds1 it was sommer, so could wear loose dress. This time it's cold, plus all my trousers are really tight, don't fancy sound of it while having contractions. Does anyone just dive to hospital in dressing gown - not sure I could!)

With delivery, I remember just getting on with it in what I was still wearing to come to hospital, so was a bit trussed up in bra & everything, plus bra etc was all covered in blood, which was a pain. Also, couldn't really do the delivering on the tummy, skin-to skin, straight to the breast thing. Did people ask to 'get into something more comfortable', wear a hospital gown/nothiing at all?

Minor concerns, I know, I guess with no social life I need to worry about what to wear for something

I went into hospital both times wearing my normal maternity day clothes (couldn't tell you what they were, probably maternity jean & t-shirt or something) and once everyone had decided I was in labour I changed into a baggy night-shirt.

Codswallop LOL at the pants, with DS2 the midwife was saying to me "if we are having a baby we have to get the pants off", I was having none of it.

I followed advice & wore one of dp's baggy t-shirts, I asked his advice & chose an old one that had seen a lot of wear ... but he reclaimed it when we got back from hospital, and still wears it!

By the way, no-one at the hosp said "I think you should change now" so I very nearly gve birth wearing my fave maternity top which I had put on that morning, cos I had a feeling it was my last day being pg (well, I was 10 days over, it was quite a good guess).

that's the thing I remember, is no one suggesting got changes & it seemed so unreal to just declare you wanted to basically strip/take off your knickers etc.

All my maternity clothes (mainly trousers) are quite tight now, so not sure how I'll mnage with nappy-down-pants routine if nec this time - def. no extra room. Never bought anything sensible like track suit bottoms.

Like hearing all your tails though.

All my ultra-comfy stretchy skirts seem to have disappeared too, so looks like I'll be coming home from hospital in just t-shirt and knickers too.

A T Shirt and baggy tracksuit bottoms, and flip flops. I had been in the pool for hours at home, and then had to get dressed to go to hospital. Wish I had been wearing something a lot more glamourous. We did do skin to skin straight away, but can't remember how. I must have just whipped up the T shirt. Also remember a ridiculous carry-on with the nurses trying to get clothes off me but OVER the drip that was in my arm. DS did a huge messy poo just as he was delivered and it ended up all over me, and due to my unshakable belief that we would NOT be going to hospital I had not even packed a bag and had no spare clothes...

Yeah the pants thing really worried me. I didn't want to inflict my arse on everyone for hours on end. I think I had something on the bottom - maybe those horrible disposable knickers until the moment came.........

I think my ultimate, ultimate embarrassment though was doing a very small poo just before DS2 mad an appearance. God, I could cringe even now. I did apologise. I'm only about 7 weeks now & am already dreading doing that again. In my first labour they gave me something do 'dry' me up so I wasn't sick and didn't poo, but the second time, I was very sick and er...well the other. Wonder why they didn't give me it second time. Sorry rambling nowl.........

I only pooed on number 3 and never felt embarassed - too much gone through already i suppose

I pooed in water last time, I think. Slightly. Am very anti-poo generally but really didn't care, and still don't.

Humm I think its the way they discreetly wiped it with a fine piece of guaze. Enough already!!

Yeah, don't suppose its owt they haven't seen before.

Anyway, back to knickers.......

Had on an addidas tracksuit long skirt, l/slv t-shirt, and no underwear and threw on a parker over me as well to go to hospital. Stripped off to nothing at all within 10 minutes of being in hospital and remained that way until I had to leave the room the next morning. couldn't have done with being dressed while I was giving birth it would have just 'got in the way' and irritated me iykwim. I was standing up in the corner of the room for the whole thing and was only with 1 midwife and DP so didn't feel exposed or anything as i might have done had I been lying down on a bed???? All I knew was when she examined me and said I was fully dilated I knew i had to get my clothes off and there was no time to be thinking about what to change in to!!

I wore a black strappy tshirt material dress as it was so hot, then I think they took that off when they decided on emergency c-section, I can't really remember I was so out of it by then. I do remember that when they went to shave the top of my pubes for the op DH asked if I could have a Brazilian LOL

I wore my best maternity outfit, which actually wasn't that nice, since nothing I owned was very nice. When I got to the hospital to be induced, I changed into the hospital gown with the slit up the back - like Doormat. Lovely, but given that I bled all over it within a few hours, I was glad not to have been wearing anything that I had to take back home.

nightie first time and had a section and they didnt tell me to take it off! Second time hospital gown, loved showing my bum off ....not!

Ha ha at all the not wanting to take knickers off stories! I feel the same and have turned into a terrible prude afraid of people seeing my bum. Bit late for modesty at 38+ weeks though I think Monkey, I hope you find something. I wore a very big t shirt when having ds (at home) and intend to wear a combination of a crop type bra thing and a very old T shirt for this one (if I have to get out of the pool or end up going into hospital).

I nearly gave birth to dd2 into my tights.

I wore an old extra large "Glasgow's Alive" T-shirt - it somehow seemed appropriate to support the city of my child's birth as I was going through the process. I'd fully intended to throw it out aftrwards, but it washed up OK and I still use it to go running in (a rare occasion now!)

Went in to hospital at 10 pm in the stuff I'd been wearing during the day - a longish maternity skirt and top.

I think I took my bra off when I changed into the T-shirt - I wanted to be prepared for skin-to-skin and breast feeding.

i wore a blue t.shirt nightie as i thought i could cover myself up and keep my dignoty as long as possible..(little did i know then) the first thing dd wore was a hospital t.shirt (which i nicked) as we'd forgotten EVERYTHING and just had an empty bag.....my nightie and the t.shirt are in a little keepsake box now!!

Zilch, nada, zip, nothing. Was convinced I'd be very concerned about preserving my modesty but in the end I spent my 3 hour labour walking around in the buff grunting a lot. Luckily my labour (first baby) was just 3 hours from start to finish and 75% of the time it was just me and DH in the low lit hospital delivery room (mw popped in every now and again.). I was also really paranoid about crapping on the bed, but I got the urge to go about 25 mins into my labour and so was able to go to the loo in private on my own , I was so pleased with that.

LOL about the knickers thing. I had my waters broken and sent DP out of the room whilst I took my knickers off in a fit of modesty. He came back in to find me high on gas and air and the midwife putting my knickers on which confused me as I was SURE I was about to have a baby and wearing knickers didn't seem too sensible. Do not remember taking knickers off later tho so it seems someone else had to undress me.

Going to hospital - belly wacking maternity jeans
Delivery - arse showing gown thingy
Coming home - belly wacking maternity jeans

I remember my Mum trying to make me feel good about myself when ds was about 3 weeks old.

She said, 'you look really good love, you've already lost loads of your weight, (bless her)

DH replied, 'yeah, you only look about 6 months pegnant now instead of full term' Sad thing is he was being really genuine and thought it was a compliment.

I was so upset I refused to speak to him for the rest of the day.

Going into hospital I just wore my normal maternity clothes - jeans and top I think. Was going in for planned induction though so not rushed in anyway.

For the inductions/labout I wore a maternity nightshirt - not very attractive, but comfy. Ended up having c-section anyway so had a gown then - even less attractive.

Only had one hospital birth, truly cannot remember what I wore to get there or get home. It was one in the morning. Some sort of maternity clothes, I imagine.

Gave birth both times in sleeveless tops. I still wear both of them, sometimes. They didn't get blood on them at all. If I have another, must remember to buy some very beautiful sleeveless top so I can truly enjoy wearing it afterwards.

I just went in T-shirt and dressing gown, sat on a binbag!!!

Both times I went into hospital in my normal clothes. First time round I laboured in a tshirt which was discarded about halfway through until I stripped off. My husband still laughs about the enormous naked woman yelling loudly. Unfortunately I had an epidural so the delivery room was pretty full. No dignity. Second time I kept my nightie on the whole time. I was so proud!This labour took only a few hours though, so I didn't have a chance to get into the swing of things.

This posting has brought it all back. Haven't read all the postings but enough to make me cringe at my own memories.
For ds I went into hospital in my pyjama top (woke up in the night in labour) with a jumper on top and my maternity trousers. Had to give birth half reclining with only short above mentioned jumper and pyjama top on so everything on view. Luckily only the midwife and paediatrician were in the room. Still cringe though. Dh looked at ds's head even though I had asked him not to look down there.
This time (am due in March) am planning to definitely give birth kneeling with long nightshirt on - I really hope I am this lucky because things do not always go to plan. Last time it all went so quick that I could not possibly have changed or certainly didn't have the gumption to do so.
I am still resentful of things though - why was the light so brightly on, why did the paediatrician just stand there, he was only needed after ds came out etc.. etc...
Re. the poo thing someone mentioned, dh informed me blythely a few months later that of course I had, what did I think... aaaaarrgh, makes me cringe even now two years later. I don't think the feelings of women in this state are really taken into account enough. At the time you don't care but later you do!

god - i just remembered i had a tshirt one until the second stage which turned into two hur of pushing so off came the tshirt and i was like a mad howling woman, bent over the bed... worse part - i had not had s good waxing for a while so it must not of been a pretty site down there... uggh... im surprised my partner still fancies me, especially after he said he saw something hanging out of my ass - ahhhhhhhhh!
but its ok - im all back to normal now and you will all be pleased to know as soon as i could i got very high bikini line done... well i was no longer embarassed about showing my bits!