Any suggestions for good pads for after labour please?

[Funnyonion17]

First labour I stupidly took always night, the mesh on them irritated my stitches.

Second labour I took asda maternity pads, constantly leaked.

Due 3rd in may and just starting to think about my hospital bag. Any suggestions for good sanitary or maternity pads please? Thanks

I wore the Tena Lady pants. Much better than pads. No irritation, no leaks.

I second tena lady pants very comfy and no leaks.

I loved the mothercare aloe Vera ones.

The Mothercare ones with wings.

Oooh thankyou everyone, the Tena pants sound ideal.

Mothercare maternity towels and Tesco ones too.

I used both winged night time pads and big maternity pads

So winged on first then layer up with one or two of the big fuckers

Boots own brand were thick but soft.

I second Boots, much comfier and stuck in place better than the Morrisons ones DH fetched me when I ran out

Another vote for boots. They do two thicknesses - thick for just after and then a lighter one when it slows down.

I used boots incontinence pads, never had a leak.

Medicare maternity pads are brilliant - big thick comfortable and mattress like, the same as you get in the hospital. Then Boots ones.

Tesco were my favourite, thick and soft. The thin ones were great for a few weeks in too.

Boots were my favourite, but I ended up with mostly Sainsbury's as that was the closest shop in emergencies do not recommend!

I've looked into getting incontinence pants this time but impossible to find in plus sizes.

No bloody scented. I bought bucket loads of the things in advance. Enough to make me feel sick!! And large!

I used the Tesco maternity pads both times - no leaks. Big and soft, like sitting on a pillow!

I used boots plus they were on offer.

A very nice midwife also suggested Kotex, they are a sanitary towel but don't have all the stuff in them like most sanitary towels do. She said use the Kotex night time as they are absorbent too.

You can get them from more independent chemists.

Kotex night time were the ones my local chemist recommended and did the job.

I've bought Natracare maternity pads, all natural with no crap in them.

I used tesco maternity pads with a tena lady discreet pants. It made me feel really secure about leaks etc... especially at night. I also had an incontinence sheet under the bed sheet incase of leaks.

3 weeks later I am on the always and just about to move to panty liners as there is not a lot there.

Saying all that I didn't bleed heavily as I had a retained placenta so had surgery to remove that and I assume they removed a lot of Lochia blood as I haven't been that heavy. With my first I was heavy for 4 weeks.

Thanks so much everyone. I'm gonna buy the Tena pants and double up with pads too for the first few days. With my 2nd the breast feeding made me bleed much heavier and the leaking was horrendous, hoping to avoid that this time. Thinking black pjs for ward, Tena pants and one of the decent pads recommend should hopefully make me feel less insecure

I found the boots own brand maternity pads to be good

Can I just jump on the back of this and ask which tena pants are best? I'm on the boots website now and there are various different kinds. What would people recommend?

I used the always incontinence pants, absolutely amazing. No leaks at all.

I also had Tena/Always incontinence pants, which were great, especially at night. During the day, I mostly used the Natracare ones.
I didn't bleed an awful lot, though, certainly not enough to have to double up anything.