Postpartum Food

[GC2023]

What would you say is the best food to bring to a new parent? What gifts did you find most useful?

Cake. And Champagne 😁

The best visitor we had not only brought cake, but she made us all cups of tea and then did all the dishes before she left!

Someone also brought us a huge veggie lasagne which was hugely appreciated as we just had to pop a portion in the microwave (I think that was actually when my husband went back to work and it was me, a toddler and a newborn)

Filling, comforting meals to eat one handed (pasta, Dahl, whatever).

Chocolate to eat at 3am.

Cook vouchers for a few weeks down the line when the cosseting has died down.

And s batch of Flapjacks if the Mum is BFing.

What I wanted most was meals that could be eaten one handed, and were easy to reheat if necessary. There was nothing worse then getting stuck under a baby, with your dinner going cold but you can eat it as it needed a knife and fork. So chilli, pasta, curry, sandwiches, shepherds pie...

This.

A good friend brought a load of lovely deli items including smelly cheese and salami, and made up a lunch plate for me in fork/bitesized pieces so I could eat it one-handed.

Sushi if they like it! Oat flapjacks for BF mums. Drunks good for your gut and hydration - little juice / yogurt shot bottles.

Absolutely some sort of nutritious meal that just needs to be heated up. I think we ate sandwiches for the first few weeks as we couldn’t be bothered with much else. A few people brought home made food (soup, lasagne etc) and it was so nice.

A snickers! Immediately afterwards. I made some peanut butter and banana flapjacks the day before I had my DS and they were brilliant snacks for night feeds and just kept me going those first few days! If you could make a nutritious meal for them to keep in fridge and warm up that would be so helpful as well.