I got a pampers/bounty preg bag today and it made me laugh

[naturalblonde]

There's a leaflet detailing what you should take to hospital, included on the list are:

2 pillows with favourite cases
paper fan
soothing picture for focal point (I assume a hammer and some nails would come in handy too) and maybe a handyman to put it up if your dh is not so good at diy
shawl to cover up whilst breastfeeding(after labour, is anyone really that bothered about showing a bit of boob?)
cosmetics
snacks (for partner, not poor labouring woman)
reference leaflets from antenatal classes

Has anyone used any of this stuff? And with 2 pillows and a bloody great big picture, won't you need a removal van to get it all to hospital?

paper fan??????
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

I thought the bounty club rubbish was totally crap! Just had a discussion about it on the antenatal thread due september!

needless to say i won't be joining up as i don't want to be part of their marketing ploys!

How patronising the list is!

I took none of that. Wish I had taken pillows, in my hosp they were cr*p and not enough. But I travelled light, transferred in from a homebirth with an emergency bag only.

Was not hot did not need a fan

picture?? [puzzled emoticon]
shawl?? [even more puzzled emoticon]
cosmetics, I prefer natural post labour radiance (really, and I had a forceps in theater)
definitely snacks for yourself, partner can get to the crisps machine you can't .
reference leaflets?? How to deal with a contraction, ouch, lets look on page 37...

Ok, so this is the thread to make me snigger out loud tonight!!

don't take pillow - I took my fav pillow (very fussy sleeper) whilst in labour ward overnight, nurse took pillow case for wash, not to be seen again, it was part of a set and was the most upsetting thing of my whole labour - I know, should have been a little more concerned about new baby!

Missed this bit - special music for breast feeding baby. (Maybe that's why women struggle to breast feed sometimes - no music!!)

We bought absolutely everything on the NCT list - glucose tablets, straws, a flannel, the lot. My labour was so intense I wouldn't have noticed if we'd brought some toilet cleaner, a few coloured pencils, and a kite, to be honest.

i took about 4000 billion squillion nappies with me when i was in labour with ds. nobody told me the hospital provide them!

there wasn't much room in my bag for anything else! although as i wasn't allowed to eat i survived on Dextrose tablets for the 24 hour labour!!

LOL I naively took a cross stitch kit with me 'because it'll be quiet at nights so I'll need something to do'

The chocolate teacakes were good for midwife bribery though

rofl at I naively took a cross stitch kit with me 'because it'll be quiet at nights so I'll need something to do'

With my first (a hospital birth) I boughtloads of crap magazines I don't normally buy, it was a long slow labour (OP) but dp and I spent many a happy minute posl at the top tips sections.

I took absolutely everything except the kitchen sink
Didn't get a chance to use any of it pre-baby and then DH drove off with it including my snacks!
So what's the absolutely-most-pointless thing you are told to take to hospital? Mine, I am very pleased to say, was flip flops for the shower - it was private and spotless And they didn't fit and would have given me huge blisters anyway so that worked out quite well!

Was glad I took a good book though - that first night in with DS was the first chance I had got to relax in about 36 hours

The soduku book came in handy though - during the induction. Mind you the midwife was shitting herself because she wanted me to call out pain scales (1 - 10 to indicate when I needed drugs) and I kept yelling nine because my stupid husband kept putting the wrong number in (I had drips in both hands so couldn't hold the pen)

you had a peaceful first night! I remember with ds2 I rang the bell as he was snuffley and I was panicking he had small nostrils, the dr who came to check agreed with me and supported my neurosis. The pediatrician came round the next day and they were fine!

lol!
I've never understood that "rate your pain on a scale of 1-10 thing"

Small-nostril-itis - it's very common

SPB - my neighbour (mum of twins) advised me to take in flip flops for the shower and i'm sssssooooooo glad i did! they were disgusting!

I agree - under about four you are just slightly tetchy - over seven you are too busy frisking the doctors for narcotics to bother about the concept of numbers.

Also can you ever imagine thinking: 'well now, this hurts more than when I broke my arm and that was about an eight I guess or is it....now hang on, let's see how this contraction goes...ooh no, it's more a six...no maybe a seven...ahhhh five, four, three, two...oh FFS give me some frigging drugs anyway '

Well I went in with some sort of abdominal pain when DS was about 16 weeks and they asked me to do it with labour being a ten. I didn't feel like going into the details of "well I don't know what this is or how it's going to end but I'm pretty damn sure I won't be holding a new baby at the end, on the other hand I found the pushing stage really hard work...but the actual contractions were horrendous...did you mean with or without TENS?"
I agree though, in labour I pressed the button and shouted "I need something...NOW!", with this thing I was politely saying "well they seem to be getting better, should I just take a couple of painkillers?" - think that says it all

Bounty bags - I stashed the nappies, wipes and sudocrem and binned the rest.

Ginger - I sent home two bags, one full of packaging to be recycled and one very small bag of useful bits. I still use the tiny pot of sudocrem though, we refilled it after six months from the big pot - it's great for carrying in my handbag.

someone stole my Bounty bag when i was in hospital!

ginger, you're right it's just full of adverts except for the odd freebie.

I got a nutrigrain elevenses bar in mine - must have been laced with something addictive as it was all I wanted to eat for the next 3 months.

pmsl a lot at the cross stitch kit

The shawl is a classic though. I remember MW telling me to put some clothes on when the paramedics arrived to take me to hospital after things went pear-shaped during supposed home birth and I just said, 'do I have to? will they really notice'??

see, this was the thread i was waiting for all day yesterday. thanks you lot. i was giving up the will to live MN.

i can't remember what i took but after eight effing days in hospital I was losing the will to live.