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

I don't remember being fed in hospital after DD1 was born at 8pm after a long labour. DD2 was a planned home birth and DH made me the most amazing bacon sandwich and held the baby while I sat in bed and ate it. Still associate bacon sandwiches with that very happy birth and DD2 is a teenager now. 😀

Yes you will still get fed and looked after as if it's day time. I was very well looked after x

I had my baby at 7pm and by the time I was all stitched up and taken up to the ward it was 9pm and my DH was kicked out and not allowed to return with any food or anything for me, I had had tea and toast but was still bloody starving! Hopefully things are different at your hospital x

My daughter was born at 1am. I got nothing I don't think...

I had my dc at 5.15am and got toast and orange juice (I don't drink hot drinks so insisted on something else). I wasn't offered any other food until dinner time in the evening. They wouldn't let me leave delivery until I'd done a wee but they had put a catheter in before using the ventouse so I couldn't do one. The tiniest cup of juice did nothing to help so I ended up falling asleep in delivery and missed lunch. I was starving by dinner time particularly as I couldn't keep anything down the day before while in labour. I ate every snack I had during that day and was then hungry again the next day while on the ward. I had to beg family to bring me food.

I took so many snacks for both my elective sections, ate everything in sight 🤣
Think I smashed a whole punnet of strawberries, a packet of biscuits and endless amounts of squash (I took one of those little squeezy bottles of squash as I'm rubbish at drinking water).
I remember after dd1 was born, my dinner was brought to me and then in laws left. 5 mins later FIL popped back in with a sandwich as he didn't think the portion of hospital food looked enough to keep a mouse going 😅

Post-birth tea and toast is the food of the gods. Only beaten by the drive-thru Burger King we got on our way home later that day

Take loads of food in though. After first meal, the next 2.5 days of food was dire. And dh wasn’t allowed back in due to COVID regulations at the time and I wasn’t allowed to leave the room also. So things like breakfast was black coffee (I hate coffee), with dry bread and jam. Dinner same. Lunch something not great but made myself eat some.

So not great energy wise if you have just given birth and trying to breastfeed. I mainly lived off apple juice cartons I took in, cashews and energy bars. Policy where I live is 4-7 day stay usually, checked out early as food horrid ( and they only let me due to wanting the room I think as wanted every Mother and baby in private room due to covid - End April 2020)

I got nothing, not even water, so was really glad I had snacks in my bag.

Tea and toast anywhere, any time after you deliver. Proper food on the ward but it can vary. I have been at two seperate hospitals in the same foundation trust, at one the lunch I got was really nice - nice sandwich and crisps on a plate. The other it was just sodexo microwave mush. Awful. Definitely bring some filling snacks to tide you over inbetween the meals. I also got my husband to bring me sandwiches when I was being induced because the food situation just looked awful.