What to wear leaving hospital?

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What is everyone planning to wear when they leave hospital after giving birth?

See if you can get some mini make-up samples from the beauty counters for your hospital bag. Just a bit of mascara, lippy and blush. I had been in hospital for 2 weeks ante and post natally and was fed up of looking like death. I still wore my comfy yoga pants and wrap cardy but a little bit of make-up made me feel 10 times better. I should say i'm not one of those women who can't be seen without make up, I normally don't wear much but it gave me a big boost on this occassion.

When i gave birth 5 weeks ago i left the hospital in a pair of joggers huge knicker that went up to me boobs-if you have a c-section normal knickers will rub on your stitches and its painful!Oh and my feet were still swollen so i wore flip flops-and my feet actualy went up a size and havent gone down even now! If yo buy disposable knickers-BUY 2 SIZES BIGGER THAN WHAT YOU ARE!!!!I brought disposable knickers for my size and got a size bigger and they just didnt fit i assumed they would!So many people i have spoken to have said the same!!!

ha, I genuinely have no recollection of what I wore when I left hospital (7 years+ ago now). I can't say I even really gave it much thought.

I guess it was something dark and maternity.

maternity skirt and top something comfortable like others said you will still look very pregnant. i didnt care what i looked like

A good idea to pack a "coming home" bag.

I had to come home wearing my slippers when I'd had DD, and she was covered in a towel (it was winter).

DH had taken my shoes and coat and everything home the day I had her to create some space.

When we knew we might be coming out, I left him a long answerphone message to tell him what he needed to bring. Car seat, coat and shoes for me, blanket for DD.

Because I was running out of money for the phone, I rang my mum to ask her to ring him and tell him:

"we might be coming out but not sure, please listen to my message, and stay off the line as I'll ring you if we are coming out."

Mum "Yesss. I'll tell him you're coming out and he's to ring the hospital."

Me: "No. We might be but I'm not sure. I'll ring HIM."

Mum: "Yep. You're coming home and he's got to ring the hospital."

Me: "Nooooooooo!! I don't know that we are coming home. I'll ring him. Can he stay off the phone, but listen to the answering machine."

Mum: "OK. I'll tell him to ring the hospital because you're coming home."

Me: "aaaaargh!"

I got back to the ward and as I passed the desk he was on the phone

When he arrived to collect us I asked where my shoes were and got "Shoes, what shoes?! If you wanted shoes why didn't you ask me to bring them in?" Followed by "What answerphone message?"

Gaaaah

Oh, I think I needed to tell that story!

My only tip, is bring shoes that are big for you: my feet were utterly and completely swollen after giving birth. I could not get the shoes on I had come in. I went home barefoot as DH had already taken my slippers away by that point(!)

It's all OK now BallonSlayer.
It's.all.OK.

Top advice to not let your dh pack your bag. When I had ds, I sent dh home to pack a bag for me and ds (had planned a home birth so didn't have any clothes for me ready - very unprepared!) and he turned up with a rucksack stuffed full of cuddly toys, a snow suit for ds, a pair of jeans that hadn't even fitted me before my pregnancy, no underwear and no top, and a bunch of red roses.

I was fuming - I think I may have hissed at him, "The baby is 12 hours old - he doesn't need a cuddly seal ffs!"

TAF at least he brought you flowers!

Tbh I didn't care what I looked like leaving the hospital at all. I just wore sweats and a loose top. I just wanted everyone to see (but not touch! ) my beautiful, beautiful DS. I would just stare adn stare at him and was certain that leaving the hospital, no one would even take a slight glance at me when that gorgeous baby was in my arms.
Same with the photos. I still just stare at him and don't even notice myself. (I'm sure I looked like death!) He's only 13 months, so maybe in several years I'll feel differently

I was admitted a few days before my due date, at what I thought was a routine BP check-up (BP was not routine and they wouldn't let me go home again ). I was HUGE by then and wearing a lovely cord pinafore over a long-sleeved top. I quite happily went back home in it - it was very capacious and I needed it.

During my stay in hospital (about 12 days, I think) I wore a sucession of my mother's button-up-the-front nighties, as none of my pjs fitted by then and didn't do up in the front anyway. I think I was the only person on my ward who didn't get 'dressed' in the morning. Didn't seem a lot of point!

omg mamagoblin - people on your ward got dressed every morning?
It took everything out of me to just change into another set of sweats/loose top at some point in the day. And I was never up for it in the morning on any of the days. And I was only in for 4 days.

I wore tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt (summer). Didnt give a fig what I looked like as I was just so happy to be going home!

I wore massive knickers under mahoosive trackie bottoms - that's emergency c-sections for you. We were discharged at 10.30pm so no waiting paps .

I wore my ultra comfy, adjustable maternity work trousers. A crappy bf top from mothercare (sorry, but all bf tops are naff - just buy some M&S stretchy vests to wear under normal clothes and pull down under the breast you want to feed from). Forgot to pack socks though, and DH took home the socks I wore on the way in / during labour. Ended up wearing his socks!

PS - best hospital advice I could give is... wearing crocs (or flip flops I s'pose) in the shower on the maternity ward. Everyone is bleeding (tmi!) in the shower and it's nice not to have to put your bare feet there!!!!!!

Gosh - thinking about all this makes me want to go back for more!!!!

star6 - yup! But to be fair, most of them got to go home a day or two after giving birth, whereas I was in for a longer haul! I was really institutionalised - I think I only put day clothes back on, on day 8, and went home the next day!

You know I'm the kind of girl that never leaves the house without her make-up and really thinks about what she wears but after an epic latent phase of labour and 18 hours of labouring in hospital I was so exhausted I didn't care what I wore!! Tried to make an effort (had taken jeans and ballet pumps with pretty cardi) but ended up wearing pregnancy yoga pants and a hoody cos I was sore and tired!! Good on you if you can be bothered!! My advice is go for comfort.

CS both times. I came home in maternity combats (huge mesh pants underneath) and loose top with 'shrug' cardigan and my Uggs. Super comfy and cosy .

Took make-up (ha!) and scented shower stuff, body lotion etc etc. Did I use any of it? Did I fuck. The only thing that bothered me about my appearance on leaving hosp was the fact that I still looked pregnant !

Buuuuut I'm sure that won't happen to you, (but equally fairly sure that what you look like may well be the last thing on your mind ).

Thank you Nahla!

I wore nice stretchy black leggings, a black tulip style tunic, long grey cardi (was feb)and my uggs + a huge smile as it had took me 4 years to get my dd2, dont forget the make up if your that way inclined, a bit of tinted moisturiser goes a long way IMO x

heliotrope I can't remember either. Photos strongly suggest it was something black and voluminous, but I was just glad to be going home with my baby.

I wore a wrap dress when leaving hospital with ds2. Easy to put on, nothing to rub against c-section scar and easy to breastfeed in. Also goes with slip-on shoes, a necessity with c-sections.

Stretchy but nice trousers, MASSIVE pants [5 for a pound at asda - very confy and roomy], confy bra, nice maternity top i'd bought for friends party and saved for coming out [nothing fancy, just nice].