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Childbirth

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What did you have to eat or drink after giving birth?

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LoveBeingAMummy · 24/08/2009 10:02

Have just seen an AIBU thread about having a cup of tea after and have been reminded of the bowl of sticky toffee pud and custard the midwife gave me which was AMAZING, even though cold. Even my sarnie at lunch tasted really good.

What did you have?

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cassell · 24/08/2009 15:56

I gave birth at 8.30pm and all I had was dry toast as the hospital had run out of butter and tea without milk - ditto, I was starving but the hospital cafe was shut, the vending machine wasn't even working so dh couldn't even get me crisps or anything so I stayed hungry until he was allowed back at 10am the next day - with lots of my favourite chocolate (along with my own supply of tea bags & milk!) I didn't even get any breakfast as nobody had told me you had to go out and help yourself and I was a bit preoccupied with ds to go wandering!

PinkTulips · 24/08/2009 15:59

Tea and toast all three times.... it's a bit of a ritual in Irish hospitals that as soon as the baby is pushed out someone goes running to get you tea and toast even if it's the dead of night. They bring a portion for dp too.

Tis the best tasting tea and toast ever... other than tea i don't consume much else for the next couple of days though, i never seem to have any appetite

PinkTulips · 24/08/2009 16:04

CMOT How awful, when ds2 was in SCBU the ward midwives rang SCBU to tell them my food was ready and the SCBU nurses chased me out the door to go eat it. They also made me endless cups of tea, especially once i started feeding... i got a cuppa delivered into the feeding room to me every time i fed, and if i was naughty enough to decline the cuppa they brought me in water just in case i was suddenly and overwhelming dehydrated by the ferocity of ds2's feeding

4andnotout · 24/08/2009 16:07

I never seem to be given anything by the midwives after having a baby, so having cottoned on to this my mum always takes me a packed lunch of sandwhiches, coke, crips and fruit and dp always leaves me a couple of mars bars for when i spend the whole night awake looking at the new baby!

makedoandmend · 24/08/2009 16:17

After all three of my siblings' home births mum would have a huge fry up courtesy of dad. Sadly, her one hospital birth (me) came at night when the kitchens were closed so she could only have a cup of tea (she was still furious 20 years later )

My own experience of hospital birth was slightly better with the best tea and toast I'd ever tasted (even though dh ate half of it )

kitesarefun · 24/08/2009 16:19

I have absolutely no memory of what I ate/drank after DD was born.

I do remember only allowing myself tiny nibbles of whatever it was because I was so scared of being sick (again).

Am I the only one who can't remember?

devonsmummy · 24/08/2009 16:20

i was under obs on the ward when my labour started - tried to eat my pasta dish but had to give in to pain.
DS born 10 minutes later - DH was ordered to go back to my food tray & retrieve the creme caramel mmmmmmmmm....

Once DH and my mum had left I was asked if I wanted something to eat (around 10pm). I was presented with a cheese & tom sarnie and a raspberry yoghurt, which under normal circumstances would not have passed my lips but I wolfed down in seconds.

Sat awake all night gazing at DS and munching Jaffa cakes.

Packed my hospital bag last week and top of the list were Jaffa cakes, cereal bars, crisps and water!

jujubean · 27/08/2009 19:30

My labour bag was packed with porridge oats and honey and instructions on how to make it. After DD was born though they gave me a corned beef sandwich, it was great. Then one of the midwives told me chocolate was good for making good breastmilk...wooo hooo. As far as I was concerned I had just been medically advised to eat chocolate. I consumed vast quantities of dairy milk in that hospital, DH just kept it coming.

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 27/08/2009 19:40

ds1 - I don't remember, but it was AGES after he was born because I had a csection and wasn't allowed to eat for so many hours afterwards. Then as I hadn't been on the ward to order lunch I had to wait for my evening meal. I also hadn't eaten for about 12 hours before the birth.

ds2 - peanut butter on white toast and dripping in butter, with a huge mug of milky tea. It was a hb at 9am. Lunch was a stilton baguette - I had waited 40 weeks for that!

Tamlin · 27/08/2009 19:52

They brought me tea and toast, but it looked grim, and after a lot of blood loss, I've never felt less hungry in my life. So DH ate it. I then didn't eat anything for the next twenty-four hours, and I actually don't remember them bringing me anything. They must've, surely..?

civilfawlty · 27/08/2009 19:53

spicy pizza in the bath, and a beer.

next morning, poached eggs on toast.

heaven!

dogofpoints · 27/08/2009 19:56

tea and toast. Which I seem to remember dh was keen to take from me

Habbibu · 27/08/2009 19:57

tea and toast, which was lovely, then on the ward soup, chicken salad with mashed potatoes (which were sitting on top of some lovely sauteed onions - sticks in my mind - and then cake, maybe?). They brought tea and biscuits later, and then I ate my entire stash of cereal bars...

notevenamousie · 27/08/2009 19:58

I delivered my DD on Christmas Eve by CS. Was starved for 24 hours (why???) and had Christmas dinner for my first taste of food!!

ibbydibby · 27/08/2009 19:59

DS1: Born at 6.30pm, but for some obscure reason DH had eaten all my sandwiches. Between then and breakfast next morning, all the hospital could offer was a very manky apple. So manky that I could not eat it in one go so spent wakeful hours in the night nibbling at it, trying to stave off the hunger pangs.

Following breakfast DH arrived with pack of 4 jam doughnuts - bliss. But have never since wanted to eat that many doughnuts in one go!

DS2: Can only remember the joy of feeling hungry again!

PavlovtheForgetfulCat · 27/08/2009 20:01

cup of tea, nothing else straight away as I was about to have an op, not allowed, went to ward at 6am, then had a cup of coffee and some toast when I woke again. The midwives were lovely, as it was not breakfast time, they made sure I ate something.

Was probably the best food I had ever tasted!

Mumcentreplus · 27/08/2009 20:10

Tea and toast Yum!...

slowreadingprogress · 27/08/2009 20:15

I don't remember either. was quite unwell after a crash cs. Couldn't eat for a day or so, no appetite. Then was left a meal by staff member who came back for it later saying "oh it's not touched don't you want it?" errrrrr, maybe I would like it, I am attached to drips and lines and I can't move let alone sit up to eat my meal

Certainly didn't have the 'delicious tea and toast' moment!

Flamesparrow · 27/08/2009 20:31

DD - tea and croissants.

DS - Tea and toast (DH made me about 4 lots before I actually got it hot - kept dozing or having phone calls). Then phoned my mum and demanded she brought KFC

Mamulik · 27/08/2009 20:32

I had fish and veg, and also apple crumble in Whittington hospital.

LightningBolt · 27/08/2009 20:35

Tea and toast.For some reason it was the best ever despite being crappy nhs bread

ExtraFancy · 27/08/2009 20:38

When the pethidine finally wore off I had about 5 Tracker bars - then lunch arrived. Shepherd's pie, ice cream and a yoghurt (not sure why I got 2 puddings but who's complaining?) and it tasted DIVINE.

I was so simperingly grateful to that dinner trolley lady!

francagoestohollywood · 27/08/2009 20:42

Ds was born in Italy. I had melon and parma ham.

Dd was born in the UK I had a lovely cup of tea and toast.

Gumbo · 27/08/2009 20:45

DS was born at 4AM and I wolfed down the bowl of cereal the midwife bought me. I was transferred to the ward a couple of hours later where I was just in time for breakfast, so gobbled down a 2nd one

Restrainedrabbit · 27/08/2009 20:52

Both of mine were born at home:

DD - born at 3.20am so had a cup of lemon and ginger tea and some toast and honey
DS - born at 2.58pm had some ginger biscuits followed by a bowl of pasta and champagne

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