Food/drink for hosp bag

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Does anyone have recommendations for food/drink to put in hosp bag for labour and afterwards? My hosp has a terrible reputation for food and I am veggie so think I might need to be self-reliant....

I've really no idea whether I'm likely to feel like eating anything during labour though my mum had really long labours. For afterwards an oozing blue cheese, crusty bread and large bottle of red wine sounds about right from here but am sure I'll feel differently at the time!

Thanks for any tips

Lucozade for labour...

Although I never drank mine!

glucose tablets , a flask of raspberry leaf tea sweetened with honey, water in a sports bottle or use bendy straws..you'll get tea and toast afterwards, and it will be the best tea and toast ever !

Lucozade sport, rather than the fizzy stuff (DH bought the fizzy stuff because he was full of "aaaaaargh, my wife's in labour" panic and trust me, you do not want that much gas inside you). Or there are a couple of new isotonic drinks without artificial colours or sweeteners -- Taut and [the name escapes me] that would be good.

Fruit fresh or dried is good. Ups your fibre intake. But I like your plan, too...

I didn't get tea or toast . I think I got cornflakes, though.

I got nothing after either of my labours - probably because my kids like to arrive in the middle of the night!

I was made to wait for breakfast!

lulu second that it is the best tea and toast ever with dd1 it was bread and butter with jam as toaster was bust but it was like a gourmet feast!!
take some nuts and cereal bars and some cartons of fruit juice for after
glucose tablets for labour

I vomited my tea and toast all over the fetal heart rate printout.

I throw up after the birth.

But that's not normal so don't worry!

Yes, my cornflakes were a good ten hours or so afterwards, I think. DH may have slipped me a cereal bar or a biscuit in the meantime.

Cereal bars and fruit juice in cartons will help give you energy during labour if you feel up to it, and afterwards in case it's ages to the next meal time.

Yep, what they said- stuff like flapjacks that won't make you too full or sick and will give you lots of energy. Just in case your hospital is as crap as mine was. I wasn't given anything to eat after DS was born, neither was I offered any breakfast the next day. When DP arrived the next morning with a load of stuff like extra clothes and puzzle books I told him to naff off if he thought I was staying there a moment longer! I didn't eat anything at all between 7pm Sunday and 12.30pm Tuesday - and DS was born 8pm on the Monday. I'm surprised I had any energy to give birth at all. This time I will be stocking my bag full of cereal bars, energy drinks and whatever else comes to mind I think.

Carbs carbs carbs. Nothing too sweet or sticky - I didn't eat the malt loaf in my bag, as I couldn't bear the thought of it sticking to my teeth and didn't want to have to go to the bathroom to brush my teeth after every piece.

We got the name and tel no (from the hospital security guards) of a local pizza co that is used to delivering to the hospital, but didn't use it.

I made some open-top custard pies and quiches while I was pg and froze them in takeaway-style foil boxes, intending them for easy meals in the first couple of months p-n. Dh popped a couple in my labour bag when we left for the hospital, and they were perfect for the following day.

We had liqueuer chocs in the delivery room, to celebrate ds2's arrival.

I couldn't bear to eat during ds1's labour, could't stop eating during dd's labour, and didn't have time to eat during ds2's labour.

Can you drink tea and have a sarnie or summat when you're in labour?

Thanks for all the replies - I'll go and stock up on cereal bars, glucose tablets and energy drinks etc. (Though it's the thought of the blue cheese and red wine that's keeping me going through the last few weeks - maybe that can wait till I'm home!)

ALso- someone has suggested to me to pack a bottle of undiluted squash that you can add to the boring hospital water they give you. I don't like water so some lemon squash was the first thing in my bag!
x

Tea & toast???????????/
Since when????????????

Glucose tablets definately kept my energy levels up.
Took piles of food for dh to make sure he didn't disappear of to the canteen & leave me

I took Purdeys Energy gold drink to drink during labour and glucose tablets. I ate lots of jam and honey toast at home during the early stages and we took a few energy cereal / museli style bars for the hospital. The one thing I WISH we had had was some savoury style snacks as I was so sick of sweet things by the following day - I had tea and toast after the birth (more jam), plus a creme caramel (hospital slop - yuck!), plus biscuits and various other sickly snacks. I just LONGED for a piece of cold pizza or a cheese sandwich.

See my thread which I started on exactly the same thing nearly three years ago for the birth of my DS!

Put in as much as you can!!!!!!!!!

I didn't eat much during either labours but ate constantly afterwards - mainly Ribena and Twixs the first time as all my body wanted was sugar! A huge omelette and hot chocolate the second time (but that was at home!!!)

Good luck

lucozade was a life saver, glucose tablets boost bars - anything high energy - I did not want to eat at all but I could drink lucozade and that kept me going through a long labour good luck x

Fruit juice with actual added sugar. If you get to the stage where they're looking at you oddly and refusing you lunch you can get away with weak juice, and the sugar helps

As for the tea and toast debate. The midwives offered to boot up the toaster for me after I had my daughter, but I was so tired I settled for the sandwich option (midwife found one in the fridge from tea-time and offered as one of the 'you need something, you've been in labour forever!' options) and a long cold drink of juice. Breakfast was fabulous seven hours later though, jam on toast never tasted so good

Agnes