What was your first meal after childbirth?

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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?

Big fat smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel. After the usual stack of buttered toast and cup of tea.
I think I had a bowl of steamed sponge and custard in a metal bowl in classic hospital dessert style too

Toast with a cup of tea.
I take sugar in tea, but was too embarrassed to ask for some. Even though i'd spent the previous 5 hours with my legs in the air exposing my naked nethers.

Toast. Swiftly followed by a ping meal shepherds pie with green beans. I'd been nill by mouth for 24 hours by the time I got it and only had ONE bag of fluids 😡 and it was honestly the tastiest thing I'd ever eaten

Toast immediately after birth then layer in the day I think it was some pasta dish.

I'm taking a mini bottle of champagne and some plastic flutes... Classy 😂 food wise I'm taking in some sweets, crackers and nice cereal bars so I've got something but we've got quite a few takeaways etc near the hospital so will deliveroo some food depending on the time.
OH has been instructed to have brie, cured meats, pate and crusty bread in the house for when I come home 😂

An Almond Magnum. We brought a few snacks and chocolates but there was a mini M&S on the site of the hospital so DH popped down and got me an ice cream (it was mid-August).

Dc1 was pizza ordered to the ward as the hospital couldn't do gluten free toast and it was the middle of the night.

Dc2 I took my own snack bars and had chips and curry sauce when I got home.

Dc3 hospital had gluten free toast! Then I was on the main ward in time for cottage pie.

Tea and toast at first ( v nice and was offered seconds, I'd not eaten for about 36 hours). Ward breakfast then my DP bought in an absolutely marvellous goats cheese from the farm shop (I'd been dying to have some for weeks) and then some fancy crisps and salad and a proper coffee from the cafe downstairs to have with it. It was bliss... Then we went home the next afternoon and had a BBQ and a small, very cold beer which also went down a treat. In-between these two meals I ate every snack I had in my bag as I was famished after a week of worrying and (mostly) hospital food. I didn't eat jacket potatoes for quite a while after...

The best jam on toast and cup of tea ever!

They offered me (cold) toast afterwards which looked horrible (plastic bread, lumps of margarine) so gutbucket DH ate it and went out to get me something edible. Second time around we basically arrived with a picnic 😂

Hospital provided a sandwich

Take snacks and try to order a pizza or something

I can’t remember, probably toast. I had a section and didn’t eat much for the first few days as couldn’t get out of bed to get to the room where the food was brought to. Relied on visitors bringing snacks

I didn't have a c section... but the food or lack of it was dreadful! After 12 hours of labour I was given a banana and some lettuce!!!!???

Second one: offered 000 nothing nada

I had brought biscuits 🍪 and had a cup of tea that was basically in a thimble 😂😂

I'm due my first any time soon and now eyeing up our little backpack of snacks thinking I might have to go and buy a massive cool box tomorrow

The very first thing was Jammy toast end a cup of tea (provided by midwife) which was incredible.

I had him at 5:30pm and was discharged 11pm the same night. I ordered Pizza Hut delivery on the way home and it was amazing 😁

Tea and toast plus as many Mars bars as I could stuff in my face. I was ravenous.

First meal at home was halloumi sandwiches with Heinz tomato soup. I was so hungry I don't think I even sat down before making it.

Toast from the midwife. And when she asked me how many pieces I wanted I said 6 🤣

Mine was tea and toast which was amazing even with a super dry mouth from the stuff they gave me during my csection. Then when they moved me to the ward it was a three cheese and Spring onion sandwich on white bread as it was all they had but it was actually really good.
My favourite thing though was a chocolate fruit and my mix I'd packed.

Cheese salad after my c section last year. I was ordered to choose something light from the ward menu. I was bloody starving!

Cheese sandwich after both my sections. The first one I overdid it, had ice cream for desert and then vommed. Second one the consultant told me to only have soup but I rebelled and ordered a cheese baguette but I ate it slowly, crucially didn’t have the ice cream and it went down just fine.

Toast with marmalade. After all three. Best meals ever.... I had hyperemesis throughout all three and it was amazing to be able to eat again within hours of giving birth without vomiting.

@SpindleWhorl

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.

That’s a good point . But then they would need to provide fridges and cooking facilities for patients.

Even if I knew in advance I’d have struggled to find meals for breakfast and lunch to be eaten 24 and 30 hours after being admitted.

Cold food ( salad, fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, cheese ) would all go off in a few hours in the heat of a hospital. Even a cool bag won’t work for 30 hours. And there’s no way of keeping food hot for 30 hours in a flask.

Of course I could have taken in chocolate or crisps but that’s not exactly a balanced / adequate diet for a couple of days.

Maybe a midwife or hospital dietician could advise on suitable foods?

Toast with a cuppa. And much appreciated too!

Can’t remember the actual hospital meals, tbh.

Take food, I didn't even get the promised tea and toast afterwards. My first meal was breakfast around 36 hours after I'd gone in