What to pack in my hospital snack bag?

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So I'm on my way to asda , what should I buy for my hospital snack bag as I know a lot of people regretted not taking food with them and I would hate to be one of those 😂 What's the best things to buy? I'm 38 weeks so it's coming very soon

Belvita chocolate chip bakes, Special K or Tracker bars, Lucozade. Not chocolate - the wards are so warm at the moment it will end up all melted.

I packed lots of healthy things like I would for a long trail run (dried fruit, nuts etc). I didn’t touch them. My sister (birth partner) brought chocolate covered raspberry marshmallows and they were manna from heaven

Dried fruit, will help with the first post birth poo as an added benefit!

Jelly babies, yoghurt coated raisins, dried apricots, cereal bars

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Bbqueen is right about dried fruit for post-birth poo though. And if they offer you laxatives, take them! I didn’t and the resulting constipation was more painful than labour. (Should’ve had fruit as well as sweeties, probably)

Cheese thins, gooey flapjack bars, unfortunately fresh fruit and chocolate get too hot and go off very quickly. Dried fruit, banana chips.

Buy things you no you will like when I’m ill I crave crisps and a can off coke plus’s a yummy ham sandwich

Make sure your DP/DH/birth partner also has their own snacks

DH happily munched his way though mine

My husband had to keep going out to get Lucozade from the hospital shop, it was recommended by the midwife, I think it was because there was ketones in my urine

@niknac1
The lucozade sport drink or the fizzy one ?

It was just the normal lucozade

Fizzy

Chocolate buttons, dried apricots and cereal bars covered the main bases for me. I also packed a couple of those long life tuna salad meals as my first time round I missed a lot of meal times...

Savoury things - jerky, mini salami. Got sick of cereal bars and sweet stuff with my first and the gap between dinner and breakfast feels endless when you have 2 hourly obs followed by 2 hourly feeds. Ward dinner was about 6pm, (I missed it) breakfast nearly 8am...

Tuc biscuits. I got sick of sweet stuff and it's good to have something to replace some salts after a sweaty labour.

I took chocolate chip brioche rolls which were good as they are quite filling. I was bought dark chocolate lindor which were great for giving a quick sugar boost when I was struggling to stay awake during night feeds.

I had a craving for Pringles, made My fella get me some and scoffed em' so quickly

Get a good cool bag or box & freeze some bottles of water. Get them out one at a time as needed so they stay super cold.

Jelly babies

Whatever your carby comfort is when poorly for after, so tinned tomato soup & a cheese sandwich on white bread or send our for chips

Lucozade sport! Definitely!

Didn't have time to eat anything, though I think I had a few sips of lucozade!