What snacks for hospital bag?

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I can't remember what snacks I packed first time round. DD2 is due July so want to start thinking about my hospital bag.

What food bits did or will you pack?

cereal bars, snack packs of nuts, chocolate and lucozade! the cereal bars were the best choice, easy and quick to eat. think i took the cadbury’s brunch bars which aren’t exactly healthy but oh well...

Jelly babies! 🤤

Packet stuff that you can pack now and forget about (not fresh food that will need replacing every week, or packing just as you go to the hospital).

Cereal bars, chocolate bars, jelly babies, flat lucozade/powerade. Some stuff your other half/birth partner likes too, so if things go on a bit they don't have to leave you to go and get food (and sit in front of you eating fish and chips while you're in the middle of a 14 hour labour not bitter at all).

Im also due July! so far I have started packing Belvita biscuits and go ahead slices and Maryland cookies haha :)

Have also packed a 4 pack of the still lucozade! x

Frozen lucozade sport! Labour wards are wa4m and labour is hard work. It was so refreshing to have an ice cold drink.

Frozen cartons of juice or Ribena.

Haribo - I had starmix in between contractions and tangfastics while on the postnatal ward. Also non-fizzy sports drinks and flapjacks. Basically you need sugar.

Lucosade sport was my saviour... I packed cereal bars and sweets although with contractions every 3 minutes from the start I didn't fancy food I just ate when I was ordered to do so... but that lucosade was amazing and so refreshing to that vile warm hospital water

Haribos etc sound like a good idea! Something easy to eat, I just couldn't be bothered to eat proper food

Having had DC1 at 3am after vomiting throughout a 46hour labour, I was very hungry when I was finally brought lunch at noon on the post natal Ward. Second time around, my snacks were much more substantial and included those porridge pots which you just add boiling water to. Whilst I did vomit throughout my labour with DC2, it only lasted 2hrs from start to finish and I was home a few hours after having him. The only snacks I had were the jelly babies immediately post birth when I went into shock and couldn't control the shakes - which wasn't very handy as I needed stitches.

Coconut water and cereal bars - although didn’t get chance to eat them! DS2 admitted 1.40am, born 3.50am, back home and cosy by the fire by 4pm!

just out of interest, why non-fizzy drinks?

Definitely nothing fizzy! You want stuff that's easy to throw up.

Yoghurt covered raisins, salted peanuts, jelly babies, mini mars bars, a pot noodle for afterwards if you end up delivering in the wee hours and theres nothing to eat on the ward until 7am. I didn't eat (or sleep) for my 48hrs of labour for my first and the pot noodle was the best thing I've ever eaten at 4am!

Basically things that provide a short sharp energy burst and other stuff with a low gi to keep you going if you end up in for the long haul.

Dried mango
Malt loaf
Tuc biscuits
Cereal bars
Juice cartons
Fruit pastels or something similar!

This is what I had.. Hope this helps!

Little pots of rice pudding (the stuff that doesn’t need to go in the fridge) and John west tuna light lunches, again because it’s proper food that doesn’t need to be in the fridge. With DD1 I was admitted in early ish labour at 6pm having not had dinner (6cm dilated) and ate these before things ramped up. Which was a good thing as Shen didn’t arrive for another 14 hrs and all hospital had was digestive biscuits and I didn’t want DP leaving me.

Oh - and bendy straws. Enabling you to sip at a drink from all sorts of peculiar positions.