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Post-birth tea and toast

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stressheaderic · 02/04/2010 10:20

Just a thread to appreciate the finest meal you'll ever eat...

Half an hour after giving birth, feeling all euphoric and legs finally stopped shaking, just us and our new daughter...midwife brought in a plate of triangularly-cut hot thick buttery toast each for me and DP and a hot sugary cuppa.
It was the best thing EVER. I hadn't eaten since the start of established labour 8 hours earlier and I wolfed it down.

Think they did it for everyone, in fact, may even have been hospital policy?!
Anyone else get given similar?

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sparklycheerymummy · 02/04/2010 20:30

YES YES YES I had the same .... me and dp did..... at teatime then again at 3am after ds was born!!!!!

NonnoMum · 02/04/2010 20:31

Yes - it's a very nice gesture, but found it hard to wolf it down whilst being stitched up.

Eglu · 02/04/2010 20:32

Had it with DS1, but DS2 was born at home so had a few custard creams instead

heymango · 02/04/2010 20:39

Was most when I could smell hot toast wafting into my delivery room while I was still in labour with DC2, as I knew someone had delivered!

Loved mine when it arrived though (toast that is, and baby of course!!)

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stressheaderic · 02/04/2010 22:01

After 3 separate nights in on antenatal, and a night post-birth, I became rather partial to chilled Ambrosia Rice Pudding, and have been buying it ever since!

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ruddynorah · 02/04/2010 22:03

sorry no. i hate tea anyway. and i hate saggy white bread toasted then slathered with too much 'spread' on it bleeeeeuuuuuurghhhhhh.

TheFallenMadonna · 02/04/2010 22:07

Didn't have it either time. Big PPH with DS so not allowed to eat for ages. Wouldn't have been able to even if allowed I think. And small one with DD, everyone a bit fretful - no bloody tea

Was very insistent about getting breakfast when I arrived onthe ward though. Demanded it in fact

feedthegoat · 02/04/2010 22:11

I was really looking forward to mine after a 24 hour labour.

By time dh had buttered my toast and made me a cup of tea the midwife was back to stitch me up so I never actually got it. I was glad I'd insisted on eating fish fingers and chips before going to hospital .

Kingsroadie · 02/04/2010 22:32

Didn't get offered anything! Chelsea & Westminster... I delivered at 13:25 and had arrived at 7am so perhaps they thought my labour hadn't been long enough to merit it. I had lunch brought to me by my husband who then went to get pizza express pizza for dinner. Needless to say it tasted pretty good - although I wasn't really that hungry though...

MorrisZapp · 02/04/2010 23:05

Sounds delicious, but I'm another one who doesn't understand why they offer an exhausted person caffeine, potentially late at night?

I can only drink tea first thing in the morning. Any later than that and I can't sleep all night.

What worries me is the tea would look, taste and feel soooo good that I'd slurp it down thinking 'what the hell' then have caffeine jitters to add to my post birth sleep woes.

No doubt it looks hideously precious and MC to say 'er, do you have anything herbal?', but I'd need to.

Though I am willing to forego my bread snobbery in the face of hot buttered white toast after hours of hunger. I would wolf it down!

diddl · 03/04/2010 08:52

With first I was given tea & digestive biccies.

AnnieBeansMum · 03/04/2010 08:54

My DH is a brilliant cook so I have eaten some pretty delicious things in the last few years, but without a doubt the best meal of my LIFE was my tea and toast after my DD was born. DH says I zoned out for 5 minutes while I ate and drank and almost looked high!!!

flameproofsuit · 03/04/2010 08:58

I got a curled up old sandwich but nobody would help me clean the gunk (boak) off my hands so I couldn't eat it.

izzybiz · 03/04/2010 08:58

In our hospital its tea and biscuits, I don't drink tea so I had a glass of squash!

With all 3 of mine I found I couldn't eat afterwards anyway.

BallpointPen · 03/04/2010 09:11

I got nuffink

porcamiseria · 03/04/2010 10:05

I didnt get any!!!!

cheesypopfan · 03/04/2010 10:14

I had a HB with two of mine and after each one, we had a pizza delivered and sat in bed with new baby eating pizza. Bloody great!

ben5 · 03/04/2010 10:16

(well didn't fancy tasting my own milk but they seemed to like it!

suiledonne · 03/04/2010 10:17

I have been know to wax lyrical about the first thing I ate after having dd1.

I had hyperemesis throughout the whole pregnancy - never felt well and lost my taste for food.

I had to go to theatre for removal of placenta after dd was born so missed the tea and toast but back on the ward I got my breakfast tray with tea, toast and the best bowl of cornflakes ever!

Ice cold milk, crunchy cornflakes and the fact my sickness had instantly disappeared made for the greatest meal of my life.

The tea and toast after dd2 was good but nothing compares to that bowl of cornflakes.

eastendmummy · 03/04/2010 10:26

I wasn't offered anything after birth of ds1 - 3 day labour followed by emcs! Was bloody starving but had to wait till lunchtime for food even though he was born at 3am! First meal was curry - offered chicken, veg or lamb. It was the best meal of my life, but seems a very strange thing to offer to a new mum and I was terrified of the after affects!! I did give birth in a big east London hospital though so I think they just cater for the largely Bangledeshi mums.

Definitely requesting tea and toast this time - due in 4 days!!

FatSeal · 04/04/2010 17:16

Mine got cold whilst holding d and DH ate most of it Looked amazing though, and the tea was still warm after.

This time round I've stocked my bag with food so I can have a big scoff when we get to the ward

diddl · 05/04/2010 15:37

My first was born at home-not planned-but they still gave me tea & biscuits when I got into hospital.

MissJacksonIfYourNasty · 05/04/2010 15:40

First birth - they forgot to take the nil-by-mouth sign down for 24 hours after my c-section, then when they realised (a weak 'sorry' was all I got...I was practically in a hyperglycaemic daze by then) I was told I could 'make myself tea and toast down the hall' (gee, thanks, Royal Free!). So, carted my drip down the hall and made myself an enormous cup of builder's tea (used one of the nurse's big china cups...sod polystyrene!) and 2 slices of white buttery toast. Best meal I have ever eaten.

Second birth - demanded my tea and toast as soon as humanly possible, and got it

cakeywakey · 05/04/2010 15:45

Ahhhh, the best cup of tea in the world. I was in the recovery ward after having a bad tear stitched in theatre when a lovely MW hoved into view with mine. I'd been off tea for the previous five months so it tasted all the better.

thinker · 05/04/2010 17:21

congeiled cooling macaroni cheese, bloody bootiful i wolfed it down and wouldnt let her take it away.

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