Maternity pads or pants?

[Tango500]

One of these things I can't find much info about! 🙈 is it best to have pads or would something like always discreet pants work ok after giving birth? Thanks!

There are special maternity pads (or Kotex do very big, thick pads much more cheaply!) that do the job well. Personally (2 natural births), I needed those! Super absorbent, more than pants would be I expect.

Pads. Have a few different brands in and some people only get on with certain ones , for me that was boots own brand.

I used tena lady pants for the first few days, when it was really heavy. They felt like big nappies but I liked not having to worry about leaking and they covered in all directions. After that maternity pads were fine.

I used the boots own also. Natural birth and needed 4 packs in total. They are only about £1.50 a pack, personally wouldn't bother spending the extra on pants.

Boots thick pads and black primark knickers.

I had pads first time round, awful, had to change like a 100 times because I was bleeding so much that I would soak through the pad. Didn't know pants existed!!! Next pregnancy I used pants!! Didn't didn't to worry about soaking through. Mind you that time I didn't bleed as much so could've just used pads.

If I were you, I'd buy some pants just incase

Pads. The first week I had a lot of blood and used more than I expected so buy plenty and be prepared to cha he them often. After first week I gradually moved to just normal sanitary towels.

I'm going for pants this time, used pads with my 1st but I had an episiotomy and was very sore and found to get comfortable I kept lying with pressure more on my lower back with caused me to leak all the time through the back of my pad. Bled more than I expected too, had to sleep on a towel because I knew the pad would leak somewhere.

The biggest, fattest pads you can find and lots of them. Nothing "discreet" will be up to the job.

Beforehand, someone said to me you can't possibly imagine how much blood there'll be in the first few days. They were right.

Ok.. so I think I'll probs my go for both tbh! What brand pants do you think are best? 🤔 xx

I only used the always pants. Can't comment on any other brand.

I got the nighttime tena lady pads which I found much larger and fatter than maternity pads and used them overnight or if I was lying down lots (I had a c section so spent a lot of time reclined at least) this meant I didn't leak all out the back of it. I used maternity pads for the daytime when sitting up etc as you will want to change them pretty regularly anyway

Tena lady pants are a godsend! Especially for the first few days after giving birth. The last thing you want to be worrying about is leaking.

After a couple of days I used boots maternity pads. Absolutely fab! X

Pads. Currently on postnatal ward and brought both with me. I find pads have been easy to change but putting pants on multiple times a day would be a challenge.

lil-let's now do maternity pads and I found them to be better than most of the others. They're really long and wider at the back than the others

I liked asda pads. Found in the baby section