Did everyone get tea & toast?!

[curiousgeorgie]

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 )

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

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

No! I too was looking forward to tea and toast. They didn't give me a thing. Went into hospital at 2pm on a Saturday. Dd born at 9pm that night. Finally got something to eat at 6pm on Sunday. They just forgot about me!

Tea and toast with my first (hospital birth in England)
Straight to lunch after being transferred to hospital after accidental home birth for my second.

Huge platter of ham, cheese, tomato and salad sandwiches, coffee for me, squash for DH, a bit of cake and 2 glasses of non-alcoholic cider with a Swedish flag after the latest one in hospital in Sweden. The coffee mugs had mamma and pappa on them.

I too was looking forward to tea and toast but found out at antenatal class my hospital didn't do toast anymore!

One of my midwives brought me a sandwich after I'd given birth and again when I went back to the ward. Both times she asked me if I wanted cheese or meat, I said cheese, and both times she brought me corned beef! They were so lovely and I was so happy that I didn't mind.

Wow Sweden sounds like a fabulous place to give birth!!

Nope. I ate the cold baked potato my partner had bought me the day before. Not much open at midnight. It tasted great though!

Yep, tea and toast here too, they made DP some but i scoffed his aswell (and drained his tea)

No....DS1 born at 6.30pm (in 1996). Got to post-natal ward 8 or 9pm ish. Asked for something to eat. Given one bruised manky. Was vile but sooo hungry in night that kept nibbling at good bits. DH brought me 4 pack of jam doughnuts next morning. Went down a treat :) (NB did not eat them all at once).

DS2 born 4.30am ish, so by time was stitched etc and delivered to ward was time for breakfast.

I am a student midwife and pride myself on my tea and toast! Shocked that some don't get it, possibly more shocked that brown bread is being offered . I think for a lot of the women who birth where I work, it's the first time for ages that they have had cheap white bread and butter, that's why they love it so much .

Tea with 2 sugars here with dd5 born 2 weeks ago, but no toast, only 2 cheap slices of bread along with butter and jam & even that was only given after lovely mw chased up the staff on where my breakfast was!

Man they were trying to force tea and bloody toast on me the whole way through labour, and then after too. I got an epidural headache for a week and my appetite was non existent...until they gave me codeine while I was waiting for the blood patch...oh my god that toast with butter was about the best thing I ever tasted.
And then the following day for breakfast, when I could walk without feeling sick and pick up my baby on my own...it was like manna from heaven!
Sorry OP, I feel like I'm bragging now

Yep tea and toast here too......lovely. Don't even LIKE tea.
Didnt get any of the sandwiches dh insisted on making before going to hospital though......and there were a lot of those......

I got a complete meal, think it was roast chicken potatoes and veg with some sort of juice and a desert!

Roast chicken dinner?! Even when 'normal' meals started to arrive, they were mainly jacket potatoes with those forlorn little tubs of salad on the side.

After waiting hours eventually got toast but no tea :( was sooo disappointed

Yes I got tea and toast but it was bloody awful. The tea was nice but after chuffing on gas and air for ages the toast was like chewing cardboard! I was starving the nxt day!!! Xx

Yes Mellow! Just had a look at the pictures and it definitely was! Don't think I ate much of it mind, was full of adrenaline after having a PFB and not hungry in the slightest :-) currently pregnant again I wonder what I'll get this time I thought mine was at standard!

If I have another DH is going to be instructed to source a roast chicken dinner from somewhere for me. I don't care where or how Even toast will not be enough now I've heard of such possibilities!

No toast second time around .

Apparently the toasters were causing too many fire alarms.

A midwife did rustle up a roll with jam and butter for me to go with the cup of tea, but dammit, it just wasn't the same.

They promised me tea and toast but it never came! They were crazy busy though, everyone having babies the same time.

Eventually I got a dinner of minced beef pie with some veg. I scoffed it in one go, was ravenous, could have eaten a scabby dog. Actually the food was really surprisingly good in that hospital.

I was looking forward to it after a crappy delivery bloody mumsnet silver linings but was offered nothing more than some squash (which was nice but they left it at the end of my bed - I'd had a spinal and DP kept falling asleep so couldn't reach it).

I had a birth debrief and found out that I should have been offered it.

Wasn't the only thing I missed out on (someone dressing DS, cot, clean up/shower, call button/mw checking in on me) - but it was probably the thing I was saddest about.

I can't remember after emcs, I don't think I did as I couldn't sit up for a while and then I probably waited until breakfast.

The cheese, butters and crackers after my erpc were amazing though, I had been nil by mouth all day and kept getting shifted up the list until I was last, so when they brought those in afterwards I was ravenous! Only nice thing I remember about that day apart from lovely nurses.

no it was breakfast time so... weetabix :/

Never been so hungry in my life best tea and toast ever!!!

Same room, in same hospital as DC1 but no toast after DC2. Bloody austerity measures.

Cold thin bread and drinking tea through a straw whilst feeding dd but yes it was good...