What would you recommend eating in early labour?

[BellaBalloon]

I am fully expecting to throw up at some stage since I am a natural born sicker but know that it is important to maintain energy levels - spesh since I am hoping to go au naturel.

pasta with tomato sauce?
toast?

What did you eat/want to eat?

pasta is good since it is slow release carbs.

A brown rice dish perhaps, Go easy on the sauces though, not so nice coming back if you are prone to vomitting in labour.

bananas

plain stuff.

There normally comes a point when you don't want to eat, after that, just drink lots water.

good luck.

After extensive morning sickness research I can officially recommend Weetabix as something that really isn't too bad if it does come back up again if you just want something quick to keep you going.

haha that is so funny - that was exactly my ms experience too. my colleagues at work say that they can't look at weetabix now without remembering me saying that!!

I got through a bowl of bran flakes (my usual breakfast), then got fed bits of malt loaf, grapes, banana, chocolate milk and lots of water over the next 8 hours - food designed for surviving hospital as much as anything else.

I did have some orange juice the next morning despite the epidural, which I threw up that afternoon after ds came out. Still think the energy was worth it!

I gave up on eating and stuck with winegums having thrown up everything I ate during labour.

I was told dried fruit was good... and to have glucose tablets at hand in case you couldn't eat but needed an energy boost...

somethign low effort, definitely

I went into labour at about 1am so I wasn't really hungry - dd was born by 8am so I just had an enormous breakfast afterwrads

I did drink a lot of squash and lucozade sport though

Here's what NOT to do: arrive at hospital at 1am having eaten nothing since evening meal the previous night, approx 6pm. Then eat NOTHING during labour but follow advice about drinking energy drinks to keep you going. Deliver baby at 5pm having got through 8 bottles of Lucozade Sport (not the fizzy stuff, the still kind and still nothing to eat.
Cue projectile vomiting when myself and husband left to bond with baby after delivery. So what was meant to be a lovely time ended up with a team of midwives coming to to change bed and me(!) clean floor, etc.

Still, makes for a good story to tell baby when he's older!

Definitely not pasta & tom sauce! I ate that and it kept repeating on me, I could taste it all night long. Then I was V sick too.
I would go for something bland, toast ideal.

I'd take a selection with you if you are going into hospital.

I followed advice to take small snacks and energy drinks, but actually I ended up in hospital in a bit of a rush because there was meconium in my waters when they broke and so dashed there at 6pm on a Sunday night having only had a sandwich for lunch. After the initial excitement died down, I was absolutely ravenous and my cereal bars, chocolate and energy drinks just didn't cut it. I would have killed for something savoury and substantial and I began to obsess about a cheese and pickle sandwich on doorstop brown bread. The midwives were advising me not to eat and all the shops were shut anyway so I spent most of my labour starving.

If I had my time over I would have a bit of everything with me because you don't know what you will fancy!

Toast and plain biccies!

Am I the only unprepared one who never took food/drink in?

Labour took away my apetite completely.

DH was glad of the cereal bars and crisps though!