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What was your first meal after childbirth?

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Cbd333 · 30/06/2021 12:13

I'm having a c section at a hospital that has no cafes / restaurants nearby apart from the league of friends which isn't particularly appealing! I know I'll be famished so looking for some inspiration.

What was the first thing you ate after childbirth?

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Immaculatemisconception · 30/06/2021 14:18

I had my third without any pain relief, not even gas and air. They offered me fish and chips 20 minutes after the birth and as I was starving, I said yes please. It was delicious. Whilst I was eating, a group of parents to be were having a tour of the labour suite and they introduced me as a mum who had just given birth.

Passionfruitpizza · 30/06/2021 14:23

Toast right after and then I think lunch was something random like butterbean and cider stew.

MonsterMunchConnoisseur · 30/06/2021 14:24

KFC while I was still in the delivery suite. Was the best meal ever!

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R0SEMARY · 30/06/2021 14:24

@SpindleWhorl

I hadn't eaten for well over 24 hours, I had a long, gruelling labour, and after childbirth was given one slice of toast with margarine at midnight, told to be quiet, and that I had to wait for breakfast to come round at 7.30-8am if I wanted anything else to eat.

If we'd been warned, I could have been prepared. They'd already sent ExH home, so he couldn't help. I was stuck in bed on a drip, and told to stay put. It was awful.

Take sandwiches.

I had exactly the same. Nothing since midnight the night before and when I finally got onto the ward about 8pm they told me there was nothing except toast , which I can’t eat as I have coeliac disease.

At breakfast the next morning I was given a dry roll ( which I still couldn’t eat ). So by lunchtime it was 36 hours since I’d had anything to eat.

I was told that lunch was being served in the next ward where I had to go had queue up. But I wasn’t allowed to take the baby with me and I wasn’t allowed to leave him until I had a visitor to watch him. ( They had already tried to tell me I couldn’t use the toilet / shower for the same reason ).

Apparently the nurses were “ too busy “ to watch babies . I’ve no idea what they were busy doing as they were also to busy to give out meds, change drips, take out catheters , hand babies to mums who were just out of theatre and couldn’t walk or help with feeding.

Eventually they agreed that another patient could “ watch my baby “ so I could go and collect my delicious and filling meal of a plate of shredded lettuce and one slice of cooked ham ( enough to make a sandwich ).

Needlessly say I went home before dinner.

cookiecreampie · 30/06/2021 14:30

If you give birth before a meal time is due, you'll get a meal off them. I always just opted for sandwiches or jacket potatoes. But take some food just in case.

GingerbreadZinc · 30/06/2021 14:31

DC1 - Tuna sandwich. That was all they could find. It was dry and going stale, but I was soooooo hungry as I hadn't eaten in 2 days.

DC2 - can't remember. Tea & biscuits I think.

movingadviceneeded · 30/06/2021 14:32

Baby born at 5pm, I wasn't given anything until the next morning as I missed 6pm dinner due to being in recovery. Genuine story. Not even a cuppa! I hadn't eaten by then for 2 days due to a 59 hour labour.......

MuchTooTired · 30/06/2021 14:34

I had a hospital sandwich and whatever came with it.

The first meal the next day, my dh arrived with pate and unpasteurised cheese board full of all the delicious things I’d not eaten during pregnancy which was absolutely glorious!

toffeebutterpopcorn · 30/06/2021 14:40

A sandwich (DH went to a local shop) but the rice pudding the hospital gave me was bloody gorgeous. I don’t remember the main but do recall not even being certain it was vegetarian and thinking ‘sod that I’m starving’.

TableFlowerss · 30/06/2021 14:40

Toast and it was the best meal ever. I was fucking starving. If they’d taken much longer I’d have stated eating the flowers!!

ladygindiva · 30/06/2021 14:42

I cant remember what it was; but word of warning; I bolted it down so fast through hunger that i threw it all up again immediately... infront of extended family cooing over newborn twins. Maybe the epidural ? So eat slowly!

SpindleWhorl · 30/06/2021 14:44

I wish the rubbisher maternity services would just be honest, @R0SEMARY, that there will be no food, so bring your own in.

Equally that you may like to bring in your own carer for actual, you know, health care assistance.

Gladiolys · 30/06/2021 14:45

Macaroni cheese and a sticky toffee pudding. I had gestational diabetes and hadn’t eaten sugar or carbs for 5 months, so I was absolutely desperate for both 🤣

Gladiolys · 30/06/2021 14:45

That was my first meal at home, I should say. Can’t remember what I ate in hospital - some kind of anonymous sludge

toffeebutterpopcorn · 30/06/2021 14:45

It’s worth having a baby for macaroni cheese and sticky toffee pudding (my 2 absolute faves)

Gladiolys · 30/06/2021 14:46

@toffeebutterpopcorn

It’s worth having a baby for macaroni cheese and sticky toffee pudding (my 2 absolute faves)

Indeed

BikeRunSki · 30/06/2021 14:46

Thick white toast and butter, stewed tea and a side order of newborn. Both times. Best meal in the world.

BiddyPop · 30/06/2021 14:50

Tea and 2 fig rolls (as there was no toast available for some reason)

ArchbishopOfBanterbury · 30/06/2021 14:53

Boiled cauliflower. Plain. It was still a struggle to keep it down.

The hospital canteen had a full roast, pork, roast potatoes, yorkshire puddings, gravy etc - but I couldn't face any of the rest of it. Too strong/flavourful on such an empty stomach (labour was basically a 24 hour clearout for me!)

catfeets · 30/06/2021 14:55

I wasn't fed for the 3 days i was in labour so wasn't a surprise I was offered nothing after the birth.
My DP got me a sandwich from a local cafe. It was crap :(

CMOTDibbler · 30/06/2021 14:58

A cereal bar I had in my bag. With a cereal bar for lunch as you had to ask for gluten free at the kitchen 4 hours ahead and I'd kind of been busy bleeding then. And for dinner as I'd gone to SCBU to see my baby, but then DH brought me in a salad from M&S. The next day another SCBU mum showed me the fridge and microwave there, so dh was able to bring me ready meals.

Clutterbugsmum · 30/06/2021 15:01

Shepherds pie I think.

But I know I order jacket potato and cheese for the next night. Although I was in for 1 night we had to choose the meals for the next day. So I chose the least offensive I could.

Jins · 30/06/2021 15:02

Nothing until DH could bring me something as they couldn’t cater for coeliacs

allfurcoatnoknickers · 30/06/2021 15:02

I had no apatite immediately after my late afternoon c-section, so I just had some small snacks. My first meal was breakfast the next morning - a bagel with smoked salmon and a fuck-off massive cappuccino. It was amazing.

I had HG and lost my sense of taste during pregnancy and food has never tasted so good.

linerforlife · 30/06/2021 15:03

I had toast. But it took me about two hours to finish it as I felt so funny and wobbly. I drank the tea promptly though

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