what was your post-birth celebratory meal?

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mine was rare rib eye steak, spinach and roasted butternut squash. I can still remember the taste and it was nearly 3 years ago. Something about that period that makes heightens all of your sensed, because the same dinner has never tasted as good since...

Didn't get anything - DH and I were a bit shellshocked after DS being prem and SCBU, and neither family would do anything as useful as cooking (or visiting us at all in the case of most of the family tbh).

DH did bring me microwave meals into the hospital so that I didn't starve which was lovely of him

I was 19 when DD was born and DH and I had only moved out of our parent's homes four weeks before, Dh's cooking skills were and still are particularly lacking.
The lovely NA who brought the food round in the hospital took pity on us, she fed both of us for the three days I was in and gave us roast pork, roast potatoes, apple sauce and veg to take home, she said I sense you might not get a decent meal for a while!
She was right, after that it was bacon sandwiches and builders tea until I felt up to cooking.

Braising steak in onion gravy, broccoli, cabbage and mashed potatoes after DS was born courtesy of my Mum, my iron levels were low, followed by a massive selection of soft and mouldy cheeses.

Hospital toast.

... and then everything was a bit of a blank until their 1st birthday.

Yuno.

Recognise that feeling. Must have eaten as I didn't waste away or emerge from the first 12 months as a waif, but I can't for the life of me remember anything beyond the feeling of stepping off the end of the world into blancmange.

Sushi from Feng Sushi, brought in from opposite C&W hospital!! In hospital as had emcs. Couldn't face alcohol, but the sushi was fab (and was allowed to have whatever I wanted on the menu, regardless of cost, for a change!!!).

Celebratory meal #1: loads of smelly runny cheeses, prosciutto crudo, smoked salmon, etc.

Celebratory meal #2: sushi and sashimi, champagne.

I think I mostly ate toast or similar for most of the first three months. Whenever I sat down to try and eat properly, dd would begin screaming uncontrollably, as luck would have it. Certainly don't recall any celebratory meal happening. Maybe next time, if there is one...

Fish and chips and curry sauce. This was in the birthing room after I'd said that tea and toast just wasn't going to cut it!

I still love that meal but it has never tasted quite so good since.

I was stuck in hospital with poorly DS for a week so ate all manner of horrific food in that time. I remember a particularly bad meal which was the veggie option - veg cottage pie with a choice of boiled potatoes or chips

I don't remember anything about getting home though, other than a terrible feeling of dread and that we'd made a huge mistake! DH felt the same and neither of us could eat for days.

This time, I'm hoping things will be different - both mentally and culinarily (is that a word?) - and plan to eat like a queen when I get home from hospital. Mmm... cheese... champagne... all that stuff. Yum.

My friend came round with lunch a couple of days after DS was born. She brought a French-style "post-partum platter" of runny brie, ardennes pate, baguette and half-bottle of Sancerre. Top marks

Didn't feel like eating for ages, but the post-birth cup of tea was the best I have ever tasted! Straight out of theatre, DD feeding on one side and me with a specially-cooled cuppa complete with bendy straw - heaven! If I could have lifted myself up off the trolley I would have snogged the wonderful nurse that sorted it for me

Have since made up for the lack of eating...

I felt absolutely appalling after my caesarean (emergency under GA). I had rising tides of nausea and desperately wanted a dry cracker or piece of bread to alleviate it but apparently "the kitchen was closed" (it was 2pm on a Friday afternoon rather than 3am Sunday morning but hey ho...). In the end some lovely husband on HDU took pity upon me as I dry retched my toenails up and cried with pain and offered me some bread. He was Jewish and sang over it before he passed it to me and it was the most amazing thing I'd ever eaten; better than consomme soup two weeks after salmonella poisoning; better than anything. I can still taste it. The worse thing is that lovely man's baby was born at 26 weeks and died a couple of days later and I still think about him. He made such a big difference to my day with such a small act.

When I got home I had high plans of gorging on unpasteurised cheeses and steak tartare but premmie twins meant that we were in absolute pandemonium. I was too sick to the stomach with fear to eat and I think we defrosted some home made soup from the freezer. I lived on cake and raw panic.

Oh kitstwins, what a sad story. I was welling up when you said he'd blessed the bread, let alone that they lost their little one. Poor family.

too many hormones for sad stories

The soup that I had been in the middle of making when I went into labour. It was awful!

After each of my 3 homebirths, dh and I have ordered from our local Chinese. It's one of the reasons I'd never want to leave the area as it has such amazing memories for us! We ordered the same thing each time: spring rolls, salt and chill squid and vegetable chow mein. That, and a cold American beer. Mmm.

DH brought me a Burger King (they have one in the hospital!) which I ate just after they has stitched me up - was lush!

"Like it had been toasted and buttered by angels or smething" so true, I can remember my tea and toast so well!

With DS1 I remember being brought salmon, new pototoes and fine beans up to bed on a tray. It was heaven. I think the novelty wore off after that DS2 Was probably steak - I can't really remember, I do remember we had to do shopping on the way home though from the hospital that night!

Ds- My dad made me a fried egg (cooked to perfection) on a slice of lightly toasted bread with a slice of old Amsterdam cheese.

DD- craved alcohol and cigarettes through the whole pregnancy although I gave up smoking 5 years before.. DH went to the shop (would normally never do this- hates smoking )and half an hour after giving birth I was sitting in the garden with a large gin and tonic and a Malboro light. G&T was delicious, cigarette not!

I will have a full english breakfast with poached eggs for breakfast. Sushi for lunch and blue cheese on toast as snack....cannot wait

After ds was born had a slap up take away curry and a beer. Sooooo good!

Can't remember at all what I had after dd, and that was only 19 weeks ago - sleeeep deprivation argh!

Pizza and a cold beer on the sofa two hours after DS was born at home. Bliss!

With ds it was chinese takeaway and waitrose new york cheesecake. Had had gestational diabetes so both had been off limits since 17 weeks gestation!

In the ward with mums and babies, in strolls dh with mcdonalds.

Some sort of white fish, mashed potatoes and peas. Cooked, brought up to the bedroom and fed to me by DP, as I was feeding brand new DS at the time.

It was the first night home after two days in hospital/birth centre, where I had such painful stitches/piles and general shellshocked knackeredness that I hadn't been able to eat much more than the odd bowl of cereal. Food has never, ever tasted so good