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What was the first thing you ate/drank postpartum?

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curiouscat18 · 01/06/2023 12:16

What was the first thing you felt like eating or drinking once you had delivered your baby?
Also, which foods would you recommend to help you recover from labour? About to be FTM and I'm just curious for people's recommendations for food/drink as part of recovery after labour?

Thanks 🙂

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PinkPlantCase · 01/06/2023 12:45

Should also add that I was able to carry on eating as normal during my labour which I think really helped. I went into labour during the night, that next day I had a normal breakfast, had dominoes for lunch thinking it’d be my last meal for a while but I still felt like eating at dinner time and had a meal with fish and some veg. Baby was born at 1am during that night.

NewUserName2023 · 01/06/2023 12:48

Cheese and pickle sandwich, half a packet of biscuits and a huge cuppa! Nectar of the Gods after all that hard work. I was absolutely ravenous as I was induced at 1pm (so missed eating anything earlier that day) and gave birth at 6pm.

mynameiscalypso · 01/06/2023 12:49

It's also worth saying that for the first few weeks, we mainly meals that could be eaten one-handed as one of us was usually holding a baby at the same time. Things like risottos, pasta (not spaghetti!), shepherds pie all worked well.

idontknow54789 · 01/06/2023 12:52

McDonald's both times with mine - I had a home birth with both. I think my eldest son was more excited for the McDonald's I promised them his baby brother 😂

caringcarer · 01/06/2023 12:52

Weak tea and 2 slices of toast NHS hospital. As soon as I got home some strawberries and cream as it was at the end of June. I sat and watched Wimbledon too whilst I ate them.

SeverineSix · 01/06/2023 12:57

First DC: mars bar
2nd: toast and jam and coffee

Redpanda21 · 01/06/2023 12:57

Obligatory NHS tea and toast but wasn’t as nice as my first two babies. Had a McDonalds on way home as well.

SkyBlue20 · 01/06/2023 13:04

I was SO looking forward to the tea and toast everyone speaks so highly of but I had one bite and threw it up, midwife said it’s really common. Tried again about three hours later when I was taken up to the ward, by which point I was so hungry I hardly even tasted it (this was 3am). I can’t remember what I ate for my next two days in hospital but first meal back at home was a roast chicken dinner my mum had made and left for us and a glass of champagne.

FlounderingFruitcake · 01/06/2023 13:09

Cheese baguette. The consultant wanted me to have soup but hospital soup 🤢 I stood firm on my menu choice but promised I’d eat the cheese sandwich slowly. Also ordered a fruit salad but saved that for later. No one offered me tea or toast except the following day when it was time to order breakfast.

stackhead · 01/06/2023 13:10

C-Section here and had the obligatory tea and toast (DH got some too as we'd been around for a while - C/Section post crappy induction).

Was in hospital for 5 days afterwards and I just enjoyed eating all the carbs and the puddings again after having gestational diabetes! (was in hospital for a week prior to birth too and was giving away my puddings to DH).

Think we had a chinese takeaway the night we got home.

Lou573 · 01/06/2023 13:12

Tea and toast which came straight back up Confused

toycat · 01/06/2023 13:14

Tea and toast. Which I vomited up green bile with immediately after losing loads of blood. It was shite

wibblewobbleball · 01/06/2023 13:15

I didn't get any tea and toast until about 12 hours after I'd given birth with my second. Gave birth at 8pm and was given toast at about 8.30am next day. Luckily I'd packed stuff with me so overnight I had biscuit style oatcakes, raisins, a tub of pineapple in juice and DH got me a full sugar bottle of pop from the vending machine as I had the shakes from low blood sugar immediately after. With my first I had tea, toast and jam a couple of hours after delivery and it took me 3 hours to eat it as I was so full of adrenaline I had no appetite.

Infusionist · 01/06/2023 13:16

I was never offered tea and toast, which was a disappointment.

But both times I’ve wanted ALL the haribo after fasting before planned sections.

wibblewobbleball · 01/06/2023 13:17

Oh and DH brought me a McDonald's breakfast that morning with my second as I was so hungry and two slices of toast didn't cut it. I highly recommend taking plenty of water, squash and dried fruit as well as little pots of fruit in juice as I've never had a problem with constipation in the days after birth either and I think it's because I eat a lot of dried fruit and then when I get home I make sure we have freezer meals I've made with those steam packs of veg.

magnolia1997 · 01/06/2023 13:17

The best cup of tea and slice of toast ever!

DemonicCaveMaggot · 01/06/2023 13:17

I had a scheduled c-section. Four hours later the nurses decided to find out if I could tolerate clear broth and jelly. I couldn't, in quite spectacular fashion.

maypoll · 01/06/2023 13:18

I'm so jealous of everybody getting toast. I had the tea but now toast. I had a packet of Tuc cheese biscuits in my bag and they tasted so good.

Enko · 01/06/2023 13:18

Tea and toast with 1 2 and 3. Bacon sandwich w no 4. The bacon sandwich was the best.

2 homebirths 2 hospital.

Heartofglass12345 · 01/06/2023 13:56

I had tea and toast but didn't want the toast so I made my husband have it as he hadn't eaten for hours and he had a 2 hour drive back to our b&b to get our stuff (we were on holiday) they did let me have some more later on though. It was lush!

Alloveragain3 · 01/06/2023 14:13

The best tea and toast I have EVER had

shivawn · 01/06/2023 14:17

They gave me toast, people make a big deal about it being the best toast you'll ever eat or whatever....I didn't even care about the toast, I was so exhausted after 3.5 days in labour that sleep was my priority.

PollyDarton1 · 01/06/2023 14:20

I genuinely can't remember - I had DS early in the morning (c-section, so nil by mouth beforehand) so there is every chance I had lunch as I was out of theatre and in ward by 12. I'd wager a bet I had the strongest cup of tea imaginable, and some kind of sandwich. The food was dreadful and I sent ex DP to get a McDonalds about two days in 😂

ToWonderWhyIBother · 01/06/2023 14:21

1st birth I had a can of irn bru ready and waiting in my hospital bag with a star bar and a bounty bar 😅 The nurses were not impressed and warned me I would be sick.... It was a lovely moment when they came to check on me an hour later to say I felt absolutely great (and I did) .... and no I didn't feel sick in the slightest.

2nd birth I had the same Irn Bru in the hospital bag with a selection of chocolate as I wasn't sure what I wanted. I am sorry to say that I ate it all and didn't share it with anyone in the room, as in my head I had done all the work.

They did offer tea and toast but I needed a huge sugar boost.

Icannoteven · 01/06/2023 14:21

Toast. And loads of water. Both of mine ended in c-sections with lots of medications for blood loss. I couldn’t be discharged from recovery and go up to the ward until I could manage to eat a slice of toast without barfing. It took 5 hours the 2nd time.