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Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

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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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Rosebud05 · 27/08/2009 21:23

DD was born at 3am. On the ward for 'breakfast time' though no-one told me that you had to go into another room so missed it. Someone plonked a plate of meat down in front of me at 'lunch time', I asked if there was anything vegetarian and got a surly 'no'. DP arrived to take me and dd home about 'tea time' so missed that too. Actually didn't realise that I hadn't eaten for 24 hours until I nearly fainted walking to the car.
DS born at 3pm and was offered tea and toast by midwives, though didn't really feel like anything to eat. Had a strong and bizarre craving for a ciggie, though!

gallery · 27/08/2009 21:37

grapes brought with me, I was starving, ate loads of fruit. hadn;t realised how much space baby had taken up. That was after second. first all weird as he was 6 weeks premature. Cant really explain, no idea what I ate

EyelinerOfTheTiger · 27/08/2009 21:40

tea and toast.

Both times I offered DH a piece and then had to remind him it was me who had just had a baby when he started scoffing the lot

moodlumthehoodlum · 27/08/2009 21:46

Both times I just had tea to start off with.

But my god both those cups of tea were literally the best cups of tea I have ever had.

PinkyRed · 27/08/2009 21:48

Tea and toast both times. Delicious.

Then I ate all of the tasty snacks I'd packed in my hospital bag for labour but hadn't felt like eating.

ShowOfHands · 27/08/2009 21:51

Nowt. Gave birth at 10pm, emcs and as I was post op was told I couldn't have anything. I'd been in labour for 2 days and was starving. A cleaner smuggled in a packet of two biscuits for me from the tea trolley. 12 hours later I was offered a bowl of prunes and discharged.

DH drove me home from the hospital, set me up on the sofa, went back out to the car to go to the supermarket and buy food and the car wouldn't start. He cycled miles in the rain to buy fish and chips.

feb80andthebump · 27/08/2009 22:09

Another NHS tea and toast experience here... oh my, I felt like it was the most WONDERFUL thing I'd ever eaten!! Any other time it would probably taste more like dish water and cardboard

unluckyfriedkitten · 27/08/2009 22:18

Tea & toast here...was lovely but didn't really fill me up as I'd not eaten for 50+ hours . Luckily the ward had tea & toast on tap so I ate that constantly as well as demolishing every ounce of food they gave me for the 4 days I was in but still felt ravenous all the time....until the last day when they forgot to tell me it was dinner time & I missed my meal...so DH went and got a huge pizza from Pizza Hut for me that finally filled me up

emmarussell · 27/08/2009 23:21

I had a large Amaretto and nothing else! Was at home and gave the midwives tea and chocolate biscuits but I did not feel like eating until the next day.

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LoveBeingAMummy · 29/08/2009 08:01

Oh and whilst looking at DD at about 2am I did eat the choc brownie that had been given to me earlier

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BumperliciousVsTheDailyHate · 29/08/2009 08:33

Lavender chocolate

Boodlerpoop · 30/08/2009 19:26

Tea + toast....which Dp tried to eat!'Oh but I'm starved!'....Despite having taken a lunch break a couple of hours before....

Purplepanettone · 30/08/2009 19:38

Cup of tea and toast after No1 - delicious. Had packed half a pizza in the three huge bags we had taken with us, but forgot about it.

Not sure I got anything after No2 and No3 as it was in the middle of the night, but I remember walking around the kitchen the next morning choosing my breakfast feeling on a real high

blametheparents · 30/08/2009 19:45

Tea and toast here too, yummy! Best tea and toast I have EVER tasted.

FlyMeToDunoon · 30/08/2009 19:54

Tea and toast all three times as I was starving. It tasted wonderful but reappeared again shortly afterwards.

SydneyB · 30/08/2009 20:00

DD, born in hospital, egg mayo sarnie and tea with 3 sugars! DS, born at home, mother in law's chocolate cake and a cuppa, shared with DH, Mum and 2 lovely midwives. Before being rushed into hospital with haemorhage... still glad I got my cake!

StillNorks · 30/08/2009 20:03

No idea with either of my DC, I was under observation in both cases for 3 days - Cannot remember if I ate or not.

My first meal after DC on both occasions was a curry though

Grumpla · 31/08/2009 10:20

After 29 hours of labour, at home, the last ten or so of which I hadn't been able to eat anything (at one point the midwifes were stirring sugar into blackcurrant squash and pouring that down me to try and up my blood sugar levels) I was hungrier and wobblier than I have ever been. Tucked up in my own bed I ate the best bacon sandwich of my life. And about three sips of tea before I fell asleep. The first of many unfinished cups!

Over the next few days I was on the rare steak, brie, stilton etc as well but that first bacon butty... mmm...

teafortwo · 31/08/2009 10:38

I was offered the choice between a cup of tea or coffee.

"Oh tea would be wonderful." I grinned.

In my mist of new Mum bliss I had forgotten that I was in Paris.

It was the worst cup of tea I have ever tasted in my entire life!!!

Bumperlicious... at the Lavender chocolate!

rachels103 · 02/09/2009 18:00

Tea and thickly buttered toast and marmalade at about 2am, which was heavenly, but then couldn't sleep for hunger and devoured about 3 cereal bars that I had in my labour bag. And some jelly babies I think.

First proper meal was breakfast so only cereal and toast unfortunately - a big bacon butty would have been better.

funtimewincies · 02/09/2009 19:15

Nothing, I'm afraid, from 7pm when I went into hospital to be induced until 6pm the following evening.

I have learnt my lesson and will be packing vast quantities of grub!

TabithaTwitchet · 02/09/2009 19:20

Tea and toast. I gave half to DH though as the hospital wouldn't provide any food for him.

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