Food after giving birth

[Rainforest453]

Hi all

Just a quick question, if you give birth in the middle of the night will you still be served something to eat soon after delivering?

Have packed some snacks but just wanted to know. Sorry if it sounds silly! It will be at a midwife led unit if that makes any difference

Thanks in advance

Mine were both afternoon but I assume you’d get the usual tea and toast? Mine wouldn’t let me get off the bed for loo or shower before I’d eaten but I’ve no experience of middle of the night births.

You should get the obligatory tea and toast then you'll be brought to the ward, I got tea and toast again at 7am for breakfast. I gave birth at 3:30 in a midwife led ward for reference

I got tea and toast which seems to be the most common offering!

Both mine were night births, I remember delicious toast coming soon after DC1.

DC I don’t remember because it was all a bit bonkers but I know I wasn’t hungry at any point and making sure I’m fed is a definite priority for me.

In my experience I was offered tea and toast but obviously no hospital proper meals unless/until your on a ward and at the regular meal times.
I was absolutely ravenous but I don't like toast or tea (I know, I know!)
But both times I was discharged no more than 6 hours after giving birth so didn't make it to the ward, was sent home straight from the midwife unit, I had my snacks to tide me over in the night and then got a McDonald's breakfast drive through on the way home 🙈😂

Depends on the hospital facilities but I'm a midwife at a small district general hospital and we always have a good supply of hot drinks, toast, cereals, fruit, sandwiches, yogurts etc... during the night and then breakfast, lunch and evening meals in addition to this.

You will get tea and toast

But is always advised to pack snacks in your hospital bag anyway

I got tea and toast at 4AM it was the nicest toast I've ever eaten 😂

I didn't get toast. I was very disappointed and glad I'd packed snacks! Flapjacks were good.

Yes you get tea and toast in the recovery bag.

The midwives also managed to find sandwiches and biscuits to bring me when my blood sugar was dropping while I was in labour. It was day time but all prepackaged, so I'm sure if you were desperate they'd find you something.

That said, i would take lots of snacks. I demolished a family size bar of dairy milk after my toast. DH couldn't break bits off fast enough for me, I was like the hungry hippo game 🦛

I gave birth at night and after they took baby and I on the ward they offered me a sandwich as nothing else was available. In the morning they brought me some toast.

I gave birth at 12.45am and got tea and toast within an hour of that then again at breakfast.

Oh the toast!!!
I also had packs of pate and melba toast a jar of blue cheese and some smoked salmon... all the denied stuff!

The best tea and toast you will ever consume.

Many years ago . I had hyperemisis from 7 weeks pregnant .
it was the strangest feeling I knew it would stay down for the first time in months . That was the best tea and toast ever.

I had my ds at 11pm after a 36 hour labour. Buttered toast and jam after, it still remains the best slice of toast I’ve ever eaten!

I gave birth in the middle of the night and was offered tea and toast but sent dh to mcds as I was hungry for more than toast! Midwife was fine with him bringing it in for me.

Tea and the most amazing marmalade toast …it really was amazing 😊

Oh god my youngest is 10 tomorrow and I’m still salty about this! When I had my eldest I did get a bit of toast after she was born but I hadn’t eaten for about 18 hours before that. I was in for a day and a half afterwards and the food was horrible. When I was pregnant with my second I went to ante natal classes at the hospital (on my own as DP was looking after the older one) and asked in all seriousness if he was allowed to bring me a pizza after the baby was born. They said ok. I had been in for 48 hours before I had her as I was being induced and over a day afterwards.

No. Pizza.

I was so hungry! Yet again the food was awful (and I’m really not a fussy eater!) I took some Kit Kats, a tube of Pringles and a bottle of squash in with me and I wish I had taken so much more.

I gave birth at 0:44 and 4:04 and never got offered tea or toast- diff hospitals and decades tho second born during peak covid so understandable 😂 I'd take snacks

The best tea and toast in the world!

Mine were born just before and just after midnight. What is this mythical tea and toast? DH got me tea from the vending machine.

I have almost no recollection of hospital food when having babies except that breakfast and lunch came in brown paper bags and were uninspiring. Any tea came in a plastic cup.

1995 and 1998.

I was given tea and toast but I'd not eaten for a long time and was surprised that when I got to the ward that I'd missed dinner and there was no food offered. I was ravenous after an active labour so was really upset. My advice is to pack snacks just in case. I did have a bag of Maltesers but wish I'd packed something more substantial to see me through to breakfast.

I was given nothing at all. Bring all the food.
DD was born at 4pm having gone to hospital at 2am, I’d eaten nothing, I was bloody starving. Nothing was brought to me despite begging for a sandwich, anything. Breakfast the next morning was a crappy bowl of Rice Krispies and I don’t drink milk, no alternative. No toast. No tea. It was shit. DH went to M&S as soon as they opened to get me something edible. It was awful.
Second dc was born at home and I would never go to hospital again. Horrific experience. It was the hospital that gave me PPD, not birthing.
Take all the food. Hospitals are appalling places.

I was born at 1pm and my mother has always told the story of how they brought her the full lunch not long before - and, even worse for her, how her best friend, who was with her, then sat down and ate it as she clearly didn’t want it 😂 Doesn’t answer your question but just came to my mind reading this!