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!

hmmm tea and toast never tasted as good as when you have just pushed a wailing baby out of your fanjo and look like something out of a horror movie! hmm they even gave dh some too, loads of sugar for me as too early in the morning and waay to quick!!

it was bread rolls in plastic bags, and jam in plastic containers for me. No toast!

I do not eat hostpital food. - Although I did have a tuna sadnwhich after DS1 was born - in the labour room.

I could have helped myself to breakfast after DS2 was born, but would have to had left him on the ward, as babies weren't allowed in the room where foof was served(H&S)- Like hell was I going to leave him alone and risk him being swapped.

i have to say, was back in hospital when dd2 was 3 weeks old, and was there for 3 weeks, and no toasties for me then just crackers, rolls, and something that was meant to be food. Best post baby diet ever! LOL

I got toast the midwives made it for me.

They presented me with a bowl of sticky toffee pud and custard after I'd had dd last year - big up to the leicester General. PLUS the day room had a toaster and you could go ANYTIME and help yourself.

I was given nothing. I had been nil by mouth midnight the day before in case of complications, had DS at 5.30pm by CS and got fed nothing at all until 8am the following day.

I am still really cross about that nearly two years later

Yep I got toast.

I can see why toasters are seen as a Health and Safety issue. When something like a toaster is communal no one feels responsible for it, so it never gets its crumb tray emptied and becomes a fire hazard in a way that the ones in our kitchens (ok, your kitchens ) don't.

I'm sure its been said many times on this thread already but the tea and toast I received within the hour of giving birth to DD and DS ( 2 different hospitals) was the best tea and toast ever.

The midwives brought it to me and it was divine.

I often think of it when I have toast nowadays, its honestly left that big an impression on me! I can't believe that other new mums are going to be deprived of that.

I love your nickname, Norbert! I wonder if there is an EddieStobart anywhere on MN....

I transferred from a CLU hospital to a MLU, 2 days post emCS. When we arrived, I was given a side room with my own bathroom, a tray of tea and CHOCOLATE biscuits, a jug of ICED water and was told to ring the bell if i wanted toast, tea, coffee, hot choc...

All the food was served in teh day room, on a table with a CLOTH tablecloth, on proper plates with flowers on teh table!

There was a fish tank in teh room as well

Jealous, anyone?

I had tea and toast in the evening after I had my c-section that morning. Best meal I've ever had.

My first meal after my c-section - and it was a LONG wait given I'd had to starve before hand and afterwards, was a duck salad with parmesean crips [get me emoticon].

Breakfast was waffles with raspberry coulis .

God bless my p[aid for by work health insurance, my abnormal volume of amniotic fluid and my so called "pelvic disproportion", and god bless The Portland Hospital.

I didn't get anything after the birth. In fact, I had just missed lunch and when it came to dinner, they tried to tell me that because the person in my bed before me, didn't order anything I couldn't have it! I moaned and eventually got some heated up leftovers which was a bowl of I have no idea what. And I was SO hungry. Had a 49 hour labour and had thrown up everything at the start and not allowed anything during labour because of the drips.

The rest of the time, the food was ok though.

I didn't even know there was a day room and tea and coffee machines etc till just before I went home.

Really hope I get tea and toast this time! I am at a different hospital.

That was at hillingdon hospital - middlesex

No tea toast or even water at the Royal Free - hellish ward after having a baby.

hi, this is a long thread so apologies if this has already been mentioned but I cant be doing with reading all 5 pages:

There is a legitimate reason why some hospitals no longer allow toasters on wards:
Every time a fire alarm goes off in a hospital the fire brigade HAS TO send THREE fire engines, which costs a hell of a lot of money. I'm not sure, but I THINK that if the reason for the alarm turns out to be something silly like burnt toast, the hospital gets a hefty bill from the fire service, but either way, toaster related call outs to hospitals cost either the hospitals or the fire brigade thousands and thousands a year

When I was working in a university halls of residences, I was told that it was 500 pound charge per fire engine for an unnecessary call out. The halls I was in would automatically be sent two engines in the case of a fire alarm (unless Security had confirmed it was a false alarm in time), and the university building that housed quite a few labs would receive three.

Only read OP but my toast was mouldy, they toasted it though! I was so hungry ate it anyway

Can I just step in to trump you all with pancakes and syrup. (smug emoticon]
I did have to give birth in the USA for that priviledge though and had to wait till the next morning.
The drugs made me so thirsty post surgery that I'd have happily killed a man in exchange for a Frappachino; however they could have charged me $100 for 1l insulated mug filled with ice water and a straw and I'd have offered double!