Thank you presents for midwives?

[LongTailedTit]

Has anyone done this before, or do you have any nice ideas of what they might like?

With DS I always meant to send her a thank you card with a pic of DS, but descended into PND gloopiness and never got around to it.
She was so fab, I still feel bad for not thanking her properly, nearly three years on!

I'm 33wks with DS2, will be going to the same hospital, and figured I should prep something in advance this time! :)

I sent a photo card as a thank you to the ward a couple of weeks after, and dropped off some Celebrations when I was next in the hospital (at a BFing clinic). I'll make sure I send a thank you card next time too, I felt I really needed to let them know how much I appreciated them looking after us (we were in a few days after a EMCS). The midwife who I gave the chocolates to remembered the card, which was nice.

We got our midwives some mugs. One of them commented on how they could never find a mug when it was their break, so we thought it was a good way to show our appreciation without singling one person out. There was one person we did want to single out but we wrote her a letter and also spoke to her boss to say how wonderful she was.

I bought M&S biscuits for the labour ward and chocolates and wine for the particular midwife who delivered my children.

I also wrote thank you cards.

Ah all these are lovely, a mug is a v good idea plus I could fill it with chocolates.

I've had a search on the Nurses/Midwifery Council and RCM sites and can't track down the midwife who delivered DS, just an award she received at college - it was three years ago, she may have married and changed her surname. Never mind! :(

Or perhaps a career change Longtail.
which is what I did a few years back.

Talking of photos, one of the most precious to me is of a Mum cuddling her newborn who had died . We knew before birth so the Mum was prepared (as much as you can prepare for such a sad event).

I took her into town before labour began as she wanted to buy an outfit for her baby to wear after birth. We knew it was a girl and she chose a pretty dress and socks.

After her baby was born and dressed she wanted me to take some photos with her camera.

A few weeks later I got a lovely card and a photo of this Mum cuddling her beautiful baby. It was so sad but also so beautiful. Many years on I hope she can look back on such a sad event and remember the nice bits of it. The dress, the special first cuddle, the music she chose to have playing and the time spent with her first baby. I remember her and her baby so clearly .

So sad and so lovely - and almost beyond my comprehension at the moment, I've got such preg blinkers on. What an experience. :(

Yes, she may well have left or taken a break, but was newly qualified at the time so I hope she's still working and enjoying the job somewhere, she was great.

Oh JakeBullet, that is so sad. Crying a bit here.