Maternity Pad Options

[ButteryJam]

Hi,

Planning to get the hospital bag ready, so the question is which maternity pads or option do I go with?

I've had a good read on other threads online and it looks like there are two main suggestions for the 1st week or two when bleeding is heavy:

1. Buy something like TENA Protective Underwear (so a pad and disposable knicker combined together)

1. Buy cheap knickers (2 sizes up) from Primark, and use that with maternity pads (that have wings), and chuck the whole thing in the bin.

Price wise I suspect it probably works out around the same.

So which one would you go with? Which one would be more comfortable and easier to manage? Thanks! :)

Maternity pads or normal night time pads (the thick ones, not the thin plasticky ones) will probably both be fine, and they appear to be identical (or at least, the ones I had were). Took my oldest, biggest, skankiest pants with me. The first couple of trips to the loo in the hospital, my crotch resembled an abattoir. Pad and pants went straight in the bin each time. By the time I left hospital (nine hours after giving birth) bleeding had already settled down enough that any leakage was pretty minimal.

I'd say the one advantage to taking big pads and old pants is you're not then having to take bloody knickers home to wash! And as for once you're home, it's not guaranteed you're going to be leaking everywhere and resembling a horror movie, so disposable pants seem a bit of an unnecessary expense.

I found maternity pads reaaally uncomfortable - they bunched up and leaked everywhere :( with dd i used bodyform nighttime pads andcwith ds i used always nighttine pads - i preffered always.

but i had stitches with dd and bodyform didn't rip and tug like i'd expected but that's going back 8 years they mayvwell do it now.

Ds is only 17 months so for me i'd say always and big pants :)