Did anything taste as good, in your whole life, as the toast they gave you in the labour suite?

[snigger]

I say this because last night, out on a jaunt, we got to our hotel at 2.30am after a night-bus journey forced on us by sheer lack of taxis.

The night manager, after laughing at us and our inability to find a clean, open take-out, made us toast.

Damn it was good - but still by shades less good than that post-birth toast and tea.

I got nothing! Had an emCS so was out of it for most of the day. In the evening my dh went out and got McDonalds! The next morning, I was hoping that as i couldn't move and had a catheter that someone might take pity on me. They didn't - I got up (with MUCH difficulty) and got it myself.... Maybe they do it on purpose!

I want to nominate The Rosie in Cambridge for the best toast and jam. Thick slices, crispy round the edges and soft in the middle where the butter soaked in. A thin layer of blackcurrrant jam spread on top. I can taste it now. Yum

I kept on dropping hints - I hadn't actually eaten anything for about 30hours by then - but I never atually got any tea or toast

DP ate mine, both times. The last thing I wanted to do was eat.

But when I was in hospital on a drip at 3 months with dd2, having not kept down anything, food or water, since becoming pregant, I had the most amazing conference pear with a cottage cheese sandwich (can't stand cottage cheese usually). It tasted wonderful - until I threw it all up again.

Was in Italy so it was pasta soup and a chicken escalope...all the Italian mummies were turning their noses up but by God it was good. I ate everything they fed me in that hospital and then licked the plate clean.

Never got any- with DS1 I dont remember a mention (in fact I didnt eat for three days as they couldnt manage a dairy free diet until i transferred to MLU); ds2 they'd saved me a salad phew ; ds3 they made me wait from 3am until 8am.

And tht my dears lewd to ds4 being born at home

Phht - would have been if I hadn't had to ask for it 4 hours later and been given daggers. I could have made it myself but I felt is was my right as a tax payer to get some toast. Asked for tea too. This was 1st time. Waited for breakfast 2nd, and the lovely house keeper treated me like a queen mamma. Marvellous.

Toast after DD was good but not as good as my ham sandwich made by my own fair hand at 2 in the morning after having DS

• I got a tuna sandwich after DD2's homebirth.

Although I'd have preferred jewellery.

Actually now I think about it - it's amazing what a shift change can do! In the morning, dh brought sparkling wine champagne and the staff put it on a tray with a doiley [sp] and dug out wine glasses

nothing in my whole life has tasted better than the toast i got after 3rd degree tear and Epesiotomy at the 17 hr birth of our beautiful DD.. DS flew out in 3.5 hrs in the midwife led ward and i had to make my own tea and toast a couple of hours later!!!
why is the post op toast so good???

Ohh I remember it and it really was the best toast EVER.

Each time they've brought it on a tray with a doily and a proper teapot and little cups and wee jug of milk etc.

DH was always given some as he was such a 'help' apparantly. Not sure how much help he was since I had c-secions with them all.

OMG I had forgotten this but YES.It was the best toast I had ever tasted in the wholle world

Definitely can't remember any toast but I think I had a cup of tea...

No tea or toast after dd. I was starving, after 24 hours in labour and an emCs but the midwives told me I was too late for dinner. I cried, and the marvellously kind supervisor of midwives who was doing her first night shift in a year told them to pull themselves together and sent one of them to the staff canteen for a tuna sandwich and a can of Coke for me.

The tea and toast after ds was born was sublime. I think I cried then too, out of sheer gratitude. I kept saying to dh "isn't this just the most amazing meal you have ever eaten?" but he was underwhelmed - probably because he'd spent my entire labour eating the flapjacks I'd packed in my hospital bags. I still think of that tea and toast, and start drooling.

Totally agree, had tea and toast served up all 3 times -but theres never enough .

I can't do food for about 24hrs before I go into labour so by the time the tea and toast comes round I am totally liable to snarl and bare my teeth at anyone who comes within 3 feet.

Double I actually suggested to dp that we take extra this time packed in the bag Can't believe this thread came up!!

no tea or toast after DS

With DD the toast was the best ever!!

However a RL friend had given birth in the same hosp 3 wks before me and complained that her toast was mouldy.

She then asked if mine was and I had to confess I hadn't looked and ate it so quickly it didn't touch the sides

Got spoon fed weetabix (thinking about my first poo, see).

Delicious

The bread was undoubtedly Tesco Value the spread was worse than Stork, no jam but you are right it was lush.

I drank my post-labour cup of tea and told dh it was the best tea I had ever drunk. he laughed and said "no it isn't. it's crappy vending machine tea in a plastic cup" and we were both right. weird.

Oh, hell yes plenty has tasted far better. I projectile vomitted after DD1 and DS's births.

But that first real meal I had after coming back for any expedition was GORGEOUS.

At our local hospital they don't have a toaster on the postnatal ward because of health and safety My NCT teacher was going on about campagining to get one instated I had soggy cornflakes and even though I had been in labour for 3 days it wasn't that nice, I just wanted to sleep, not concentrate on eating (so toast probably would have worked!)