Hospital bag snacks?

[Hevava]

Anyone got any good ideas for hospital bag snacks?
So far I've got as far as mini cheddars, dark chocolate and an energy drink.

Definitely need some inspiration! It needs to be able to keep so I can pack it now and eat it in 4 weeks (potentially!)

I never understood why they recommend snacks in the hospital bag. The hospital gave me three meals a day when I was there for 3 days. No snack would be enough to last for a long stay anyway.

I'd be taking what you're taking, plus a big bag of haribo, some oat thins, and a pack of mr kipling cakes! ;)

Dried fruit for me - I can't seem to stop eating dried apple rings, and they keep as long as they're not opened.

I'd avoid apricots though

They didn't bring me any meals when I had ds. I was in for two nights . (turns put person in the bed the day before is supposed to order meals for the next day but my bed was empty day before so nothing arrived for me).

This time I'd be more confident to speak up and ask for something or get dp to bring food in (I didn't know that was allowed), but just in case I have:
Bottle of water
Lucozade sport (for labour)
Cereal bars
dried fruit
mini cheddars
haribo
Mints

I did have chocolate too, but I ate it already .

packed in a mini cool bag, dp thinks I'm mad as he can bring me food but I don't want to be stuck and bf makes you ravenous!

I have cheddars, Jaffa cakes, fruit juice and some sweets.

Once on the ward if lucky you will get food but DH won't get anything and up to 24 hours is a long time without energy. You don't know how you will feel and you may not feel comfortable with DH leaving for half an hour to go in search of grub xx

waggamamma poor you, so you survived two nights on haribos and cereal bars? That's a disgrace! How do you get enough energy to go through labour like this

mistyautumn I asked when's meal time and stood around for the food!

I came up to the ward from labour suite at 4am and slept through breakfast (fair enough) and was being checked by the doctor at lunch, after evening visiting I expected dinner to arrive but it never came! Then the next day I was told there were no meals ordered for my bed, I was discharged late afternoon. Best chinese takeaway I've ever had that night. I wasn't hungry in labour either so hadn't eaten in nearly 4 days!!

I was too dazed and vulnerable to question anything though, I'd definitely ask for food this time round. I actually didn't notice feeling hungry on the ward as I was recovering from the birth, only a few days later did a realise how shocking it was.

With ds I took nuts and some dried fruit, thought being healthy and having slow energy release would be good, but I was quite dehydrated so nuts were a nightmare to chew! This time around I think biscuits, bottles of squash and some haribo sound good :)

The food they brought me when I was in labour was so so unappealing. I managed about a mouthful.

This time round im taking a big nag of Maoams (sp?) a big bag of pistaccios and a few bottles of frozen water.

Nine bars (protein rich and a good source of energy) are good. Fruitus bars got me through the evening, after coming out of theatre after having the placenta removed manually after giving birth to DS2 far too late for dinner. The grey, lifeless boiled egg and bit of salad that was fished out of the fridge for me didn't cut it, after not eating since breakfast. I finished the box off, when I was up until 3am, the next night, getting breastfeeding established whilst receiving a transfusion. I was bloody hungry and the portions of food were crap, not counting the bits that were virtually inedible.

never got the snack thing..

straight into delivery suite, 6 hrs hard labour 1st time and lived on plenty of water.

2hrs labour second time, didn't even have a drink.

does anyone actually eat when in the process of giving birth??

it was the last thing on my mind!

I was in for about 48 hours and I don't remember eating anything. Is 15 yrs later too late to complain about service?

nighshade yes I did my three NHS meals a day. But I was in for 3 days. I clearly remember it was early Wednesday I went in, gave birth on Friday evening and didn't leave until Saturday morning. And I can't survive without food for that long. I guess snacks are useful if you have a not too long and not too short labour.

I laboured for 24 hours in the ward. Snacks were necessary!

I even asked for food straight after having DD. I was moved to another delivery suite so my ordered meal didn't arrive. And also I couldn't have eaten it when they were giving me ventouse. The midwives found me a sandwich when I asked. It tied me over until the next breakfast.

I brought a huge bag full of snacks and barely touched them. Laboured for 6 hours in the pool and didn't really fancy food much. Just sipped on water and had the odd jelly baby fed to me by DH. I was hungry afterwards so snacked a bit during the night but was out the next day anyway. To be honest I spent a long time putting together hospital bag with everything on all the lists I found and hardly used anything!

I didnt eat during labour. On the postnatal ward however my SIL brought me 2 big bags of crisps, a bag of apples and some tangerines. Was a godsend in the middle of the night.

I was in hospital with my twins for two weeks and was starving! The hospital food portions were tiny and expecting a woman breastfeeding two babies to survive on one of those variety pack cornflakes with a tiny croissant and orange juice was ridiculous! Dh had to come armed with food for me everyday!

Definately take snacks!
Almonds
Belvita breakfast biscuits
Instant oats sachets

Take food!

I am a ftm but I've been in hospital for surgery and believe me, take food! My first time in, they ran out of veggie food and I didn't eat from Sun till Tues night - and that was only after discharging myself and getting DH to make me soup at home!

I would take loads of food. We didn't take enough and ended up spending £60 in Costa and the hospital shop. I was only there 2 days!!

My antenatal class recommended jelly babies for labour. I had dolly mixtures, chocolate rich tea and tunnocks caramels for meal replacement/just in case. Unfortunately the 24hrs I was having contractions/ in labour I was vomming SO much I couldn't even hold a jelly baby or water down!! Ended up on a drip as soon as we got in (7cm dilated). I did enjoy my toast afterwards though and got given lunch & dinner that day. I left the snacks in nursery when I got home and had them whilst bf in the days that followed.

I hadn't thought at all that I might not feel well enough to eat any of it! Just something to bear in mind!