Tea and toast in hospital

[notcitrus]

I know it's a minor point in the grand scheme of things, but I felt quite insulted to be given bread and jam for breakfast after giving birth - apparently some health + safety bod thought it unsafe to let patients near a toaster!

This despite the same patients getting up and making tea / hot drinks with no problem at all.

Did anyone get toast in their hospital? Which hospital was it? Apparently the head of postnatal care is trying to source a toaster which will keep H+S happy, but quite rightly it's hardly a priority!

The most delicious hot buttered toast and lovely sweet tea (nice and strong) !! - RVI (The Toon). Cracking ! DS had been taken to Special Care and I was in recovery. It really really was the BEST ever.
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The morning after I gave birth there was a pile of very burnt toast done by one of the nurses. Apparently it is the nurses's job to sort us out with breakfast! As they didn't have aenough to do!
The morning after that they were really busy so no toast made so the cleaner very kindly (after been asked by one of the mums) made us some perfectly done toast, which I took around to the day room.
They had one of those revolving toast machines you often see in self-service cafes/restaurants - don't know why they couldn't have just put this in the day room and let us mums sort ourselves out! There was a tea/coffee machine in there plus cereal and milk as well. It was just the lunch and dinner that were brought around from the hospital kitchens - they were revolting.

I am baffled as to why midwives and nurses are making food for people when the kitchen staff ought to be on hand to do that.

Maybe the kitchen staff are busy operating on patients!!

Quite jealous that anyone got tea and toast after childbirth. I was told quite rudely that breakfast was at the end of the corridor and to go and get it myself. Unfortunately I couldn't get out of bed unaided (severe blood loss and couldn't stand up)and I had no visitors until that evening to assist. However my biggest issue was my desperate need for a wash but again no one to assist me getting to the bathroom. didn't get a shower for 44 hours after giving birth assisted by my DP.

I wolfed my tea and toast down so happily after DDs birth (in Nov)

My DS's birth at a different hospital a few years previously (after a c-section) was just like yours grumpalina. No food or drink offered (they actually 'forgot' to take down my Nil By Mouth sign for 36 hours after the operation!), no help with showering, had to wheel my IV drip along the corridor to some distant kitchen to get myself a drink. Brutal.

I had toast and tea in the Southern General, Glasgow. DH scoffed most of it though.
Previously in The Queen Mum's , Glasgow I had nothing and no food for the next 12 hours either as no one told me I had to get it myself and I was to dazed to ask!

Boffin - I think that's why I got toast before birth but not after... Midwives had access to their own toaster, kitchen staff bring round a trolley (no toaster on it obviously) for the following breakfast times on the ward.

Bread and jam did feel a bit rubbish at brekkie time.

I had some toast late afternoon (had Tom at 9:22am). I didn't have time to eat anything as my waters broke at 5am, so was glad of the toast. This was at The Royal Berkshire hospital. The food wasn't too bad actually. One evening we had fish and chips! We had people come round asking if we wanted anything! I did make my mum goto Greggs before she visited one of the days, lol.

Staff brought me toast every day I was there as I was post-cs. Natural birth mums had to get their own.

No toast at Stoke Mandeville, and the following morning the auxilliary (what ever they call them now) put my cereal and tea onto the table at the end of the bed. I was attempting to breastfeed, had stitches up the ying yang and couldn't move - thanks lady! She also put the milk on my cereal so by the time I had finished faffing and managed to inch down the bed to reach it - it was completely inedible. I remember sobbing to my dh on the phone to bring food!

Second time around, military hospital, no comparason, tea on tap and as much toast and other yummy meals as I could eat! The night shift MW even brought me a cuppa when I was up bf with DD.

I had tea and toast after both mine (7 and 4 years ago) There was also a kitchen area off the ward where you could make your own tea and toast whenever you wanted to. May be things have changed in these cash-strapped times!

Toast and tea. Or biscuits. I think I had both

And the food in the postnatal ward! OMG.... bit stodgy but I was ravenous so didn't care. It was hot and there was lots of it.

Even had toast after a very minor op in that hospital.

Had tea and toast at the DGH in Eastbourne (NHS),
and then had a cooked lunch delivered to me in the Delivery Suite as I was still on a drip and they didn't want me to miss lunch.

the staff were so nice and looked after me so well

I was refused toast or tea as I had a cs. The cleaner sneaked some in behind her tabard as I hadn't eaten for 3 days. I was 6hrs post-section so should have been allowed.

Same cleaner helped establish breastfeeding as I was sobbing and the midwives wouldn't help.

I had Tea and Toast in the recovery room about an hour after my C/S. It was bliss! Even though it was soggy and cold. After that, we were able to go and make our own in the lounge area any time we were peckish. (Nevill Hall in Abergavenny)

'I am baffled as to why midwives and nurses are making food for people when the kitchen staff ought to be on hand to do that.'

I was wondering that!

I had absolutely bugger all between Thursday evening when I went into hospital and Saturday evening (my son was thoughtlessly born at 2:15 in the afternoon, after lunch, and I was still in the labour ward at "tea time". I only survived thanks to the bar of dark chocolate brought to me by my husband about 2 hours after the baby was born.

Quote of that labour:

Midwife, after testing my pee on the Saturday morning: "Oh you appear to be a little ketotic".

Me: "I wonder why that could be??"

we had to go down to the dining room if we were hungry and make our own...another big industrial toaster.But it was lovely.Also,had to fill in menu at the beginning of the day.Some great choices too.Couldn't complain really....not that I want to try hospital food too often....! (Had kids in 3 consecutive years so good job I liked it really!!!!)
(North Wales)

oh and inbetween meals....found we were all (in the ward) craving chocolates!!!Hubbies and partners were being sent down to the shop to pick up boxes of chocolates....wonder if that's a hormonal thing? (not a big chocolate lover usually!)

My mum told me pre-birth that it'd be the best tea and toast I'd ever eaten. I only ate half, wanted to dash up to the SCBU to see the baby!

My mother had my eldest brother in a convent hospital in Australia in 1942. She still remenises about the meals - and the snacks -and the afternoon teas - and the late night suppers - and the wine - and the morning coffee.......My mince pie palls a bit by comparison!

Post natal toast is the best thing ever.

I think i ate my last lot in about 2 bites, i was ravenous and it was delicious !

Why are you never offered coffee either? I know the trolleys have both tea and coffee but the staff are all obviously trained just to say 'Cup of tea?' It's taken me several hospital visits to work this out and say 'No but have you got any coffee?' as I'm a coffee drinker.

Reading about the tea and toast with relish. I go in to have DC1 by planned section tomorrow - nil by mouth starting in one hour - so I hope they let me eat again soonish!

Ha! I am a midwife and frequently make tea and toast! "kitchen staff" don't exist in our hospital!! Its us or the support workers(who are often changing beds/helping mums breastfeed etc too)