Things people should have given you post-birth...

[Norfolkinhope]

One of my friends is having a baby imminently and we're putting a "baby box" together. Any suggestions for things people really wanted just after they'd given birth?

Gin.

new body

Drinks, seriously I was so thirsty and really didn't fancy squash and stale water sitting around in an old jug.

metanium nappy cream

Loads of maternity pads...I had no idea!

Tinted moisturiser and lip gloss...hated all my bare-faced pics for days after giving birth!

A good book to read whilst baby sleeps/feeds...

a nanny

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NOT a book about a really happy baby

Lansinoh
cake
dvds for the evening feedathons, or Sky+

lol mumofmonsters! What ever could you mean!

A big fat spliff and a bottle of brandy.

A babysitting token for that night!

a rubber ring and some anusol

Vodka
Vodka
Vodka

erm, oh and cake would have been nice and chocolates, and some ear plugs so i didn't have to listen to the farkin woman in the bed opposite, and an eye mask so i didn't have to watch and thus feel sick.

watch her and thus feel sick is what it should have said

what was she doing?

Some of my neighbours came round with meals. I'll love them forever.

A sign for the front door saying, "Bog-off. We've got a new baby and are probably trying to get some sleep!"

the Mumsnet book
chocolate cake

And some trashy novels for when you're breastfeeding in the night.

One of my friends cooked a meal and brought it round, and then changed my bedsheets.
I love her.

food for her freezer
an offer to come and clean her house for her after she has been home for a few days
offers of taking baby out for an hour in the day or to look after for an hour in the evening so she can have a bath
trashy mags
chocolate
new PJs and lovely slippers
starbucks card loaded up with money so she can go and show her baba off when she is ready

I'm with teecee,
A rubber ring and anusol.
A neck pillow, to sleep anytime anywhere.

yes the mums net book on babies... i lived out of that!!!

wilwoman, god she was awful. She arrived in the evening after DS1 was born. About 2am I was woken by an auxiallary who said to me
"The woman across the bed is fast asleep and I can't waken her and her baby's crying". i just looked at the woman and said "well WTF do you want me to do about it?". Finally woke woman, who then decided th regale whole room with her birth story - she was 24, this was her 5th child, she lived in Buckie(or it could have been Macduff actually) and her husband was only this child's father etc etc. until 5am!
Then, she had a full big bottle of lucozade, a mulitpack of wotsits, a bar of choclate, a can of coke, half a pack of choc digestives. Then pressed the buzzer and told the nurse she needed a basin as she felt sick and must have got a bug from "having to share a room with all these women I don't know".
Every day was the same, she would sit and stuff her face with cr*p and then complain about feeling sick and could they take the baby to the nursery room as she needed a sleep and couldn't they take everyone else's babies while they were at it, because she couldn't sleep!