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Did everyone get tea & toast?!

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curiousgeorgie · 16/01/2014 23:30

I always read on here how tea and toast was given to them after they had their DC and it was like the food of the gods..

I was really looking forward to it!!

I didn't get it!

About 4 hours later my mum brought me a tuna sandwich (which was amazing anyway Wink)

Then with DD2... I didn't get it again.

Have I sorely missed out and am I the only one??!

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Chocolatestain · 17/01/2014 06:48

I did get tea and toast, but puked it straight back up. The MW very kindly got me another cup a couple of hours later and managed to find me a sandwich (I hadn't eaten for over 24 hours). Fortunately DH had stocked up on brownies from our local deli (best brownies in the universe) and Hotel Chocolat chocolates so I was sorted once I got up to the ward.

Mumof3xx · 17/01/2014 06:53

Tea and toast after all three births

However with dc1 they were also trying to force feed me toast during my labour. I already felt sick off the gas and air, and my mouth was so dry I couldn't swallow. It was not nice

Iheartcrunchiebars · 17/01/2014 06:55

My mum made me a roast dinner. Best roast ever.

WeeTeaJenny · 17/01/2014 06:55

yes got it in recovery room after CS and also straight after VB too
Loved it as hasn't eaten for hours before or during labours so was starving

insanityscatching · 17/01/2014 06:55

With my last baby I got tea and rich tea biscuits but with my others I got tea and toast. The biscuits were a disappointment if I'm honest.

HootyMcOwlface · 17/01/2014 07:02

I didn't. I was left in the delivery suite instead of moving to the postnatal ward as DS needed the heated cot. No tea or toast, or breakfast/lunch for me (I was too shocked to notice!).
DH eventually got them to bring me a plate of food which I stared at. I must have been up for about 30hrs at that point.

Wishfulmakeupping · 17/01/2014 07:11

Yes I got it after and they tried to get me to eat toast during labour too to keep my energy up- oh ended up eating it as I literally couldn't do it. A few hours after I had the most lovely veggie shepherds pie and the jam sponge with custards I liked hospital food :)

Jemimapuddlemuck · 17/01/2014 08:52

DH had to feed it to me but I got my tea and toast and it was the best.meal.ever.

BobPatSamandIgglePiggle · 17/01/2014 08:58

I got a coffee when in recovery after an emcs. No toast - it was about 11pm once i was out of theatre and i'd been nil by mouth on monitoring from 1.30 (and I'd meant to be going for lunch with mum so had been saving myself!) so i was starving!

I'm crap at asking for stuff and not wanting to bother people so i waited for breakfast and inhaled the bloody toast then!

notso · 17/01/2014 09:06

I was offered after the first three. There was a kettle etc in the delivery room for hot drinks.
DC4 was born at home unassisted after being told I should know if I was in labour or not (I did and I was). Went in to deliver the placenta and was in shock being sick and shaking. DH had to beg them to let me stay in, the midwife was in a mood and stropped off saying she would "leave us to it as we knew best"
Thankfully a lovely student Midwife made us both a cup of hot sweet tea and took us to post natal.
Not all home births rock!

JRmumma · 17/01/2014 09:15

Yep but it had that minging margarine stuff on it and so was disgusting. And my tea was cold too. Id had an emcs and didn't really have a proper labour so i suppose i didn't NEED it like most other ladies though. Otherwise i reckon i would have been a bit more grateful!

TheBookofRuth · 17/01/2014 09:32

Nope. After 26 hours in labour, DD was born by EMCS just after midnight on Monday. I didn't get anything to eat till breakfast time, by which point I hadn't eaten in 36 hours. It's no wonder I didn't complain about hospital food!

Yumsnet · 17/01/2014 10:06

I also had a 26 hour labour with EMCS and got some water at the end of it. And then missed breakfast - thank goodness I had a choc bar in my hospital bag. I was given a scoop of mashed potato and salad for lunch which was nice but not filling. That night they forgot to give me any painkillers and when I buzzed about 10pm they said they'd try and get round to me but they were very busy Shock.

Second time round with VBAC I did get tea and a biscuit. And at breakfast (still with catheter and unable to walk) I was offered toast - which was actually 2 slices of bread with nothing else. At least I had a bag of food from home that time!

starlight1234 · 17/01/2014 10:13

I got a sandwich and a cup of tea...I had been sick all through pregnancy and couldn't tolerate milk..It was amazing ..I knew they would stay down..I gave birth at 12.21 am if that makes any difference

mrst1209 · 17/01/2014 10:20

I didn't have anything after my first he was born just before dinner time and by the time I got up to the ward it was around 9pm and they didn't give me toast until the morning :-(
My second was born at 6am so I got the the ward for breakfast time and got toast cereal and a yogurt. I had thrown up so much in labour that I was so glad to see the lady with the food!

HaveToWearHeels · 17/01/2014 10:34

Yeap, three slices with butter and marmalade and a huge mug of tea.

vvviola · 17/01/2014 10:39

Tea and biscuits when DD1 was born (Ireland).

Nothing after DD2. (Belgium) . They eventually rustled up some leftover "dinner" culinary skills were not high on the list of things the hospital were good at.

DH returned early next morning with my travel mug, a bag of teabags (Irish, sent from home) and a carton of milk to go in my little fridge. Now that cup of tea was heaven. The staff got very used to the sight of me pottering up the corridor to the hot water machine to fill up my mug. Between that, the size of DD (over 9lbs, massive for Belgium apparently) and my refusal to have an epidural the moment I arrived (am big scaredy cat of needles) I think I was the talk of the ward Grin

Ja9 · 17/01/2014 12:15

I got tea and toast but toast was mouldy!!!!

Had no2 at home and had lovely croissants in ready!

TheNightIsDark · 17/01/2014 12:19

Yes. Then I promptly threw it up Grin

Coveredinweetabix · 17/01/2014 12:20

No as immediately after I'd been wheeled out of theatre into the recover room, the alarm was sounded in two other delivery rooms so everyone disappeared for hours to deal with that. About four hours later, my MW re-appeared, cleaned me up and wheeled me up to the ante-natal ward. Where I'd just missed breakfast. I finally got some food at lunchtime, 52 hours after I'd last had a meal. Luckily, I had packed some food in my hospital bag so had eaten an entire packet of chocolate hob nobs, two mars bars, a kit kat and an apple. I was starving.
With DC2, it was really quiet and I got not only tea & toast but seconds too. And they insisted I had several sugars in my tea as I was shaking so much in shock. It was delicious.

TheCrumpetQueen · 17/01/2014 12:21

I didn't.

I missed Christmas dinner too as I had ds Christmas Day evening.

Didn't eat from Christmas Eve until Boxing Day when mil bought me some sandwiches

lastnightopenedmyeyes · 17/01/2014 12:47

No tea and toast for me. In fact they made me wait for 8 hours before bringing me any food (after a 16 hour labour) and then brought me a very drab plain cheese sandwich. Hmm

dodi1978 · 17/01/2014 13:47

I got chocolate mousse and creme caramel, leftover from dinner. Needed sugar and wasn't keen on sandwich that was offered. Amazing!!!

selfdestructivelady · 17/01/2014 14:34

No not with all three vaginal births.

Kaekae · 17/01/2014 14:38

No, I got a Bourbon biscuit in the early hours of the morning. The next morning I wasn't offered breakfast and then just before visiting hours I collapsed due to dehydration and not eating. Finally got something when my family came to visit with food.

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