Postpartum Survival Kit

[LadyGooGoo]

I am assembling a gift for a friend for a treat to help her through the nightmare first few weeks. So far I've got:

Rations: Champagne

Camouflage: High Beam by Benefit

Uniform: Spanx High-Waist Power Panty

What else should be in?

(maybe High Beam out Touche Eclat in)

What products did you need to survive?

A really good eye gel?

Very quiet in S&B tonight...hello?

May trot into Chat with query, back soon...

Lavender oil
Marmite
Magazine or book
Mini Green and Blacks bars

Runs back

Eye gel, v necessary, but which one...will have to be really good (know how ragged I was looking aroung eye area)

Am with you with those janeisFedUp but Marmite??1

can you be my friend please?

I got bugger all from anyone - both times

Oops - mine aren't v S&B - but they are v v vital.

Silk eye mask?

Do you really want to give her Spanx? Might she be offended? How about a nice pair of silk knickers instead?

A blusher? Maybe Nars Orgasm?

Mini bottles of champagne.
Lansinoh.
A pashmina for wrapping round me when bf at night/covering up when in-laws around.
Magazines to read whilst endlessly bf.

My SIL bought me Jo Malone Red Roses bath oil and candle which was a lovely very indulgent gift.

Not sure about the spanx to be honest - not a massively tactful gift. A pretty lightweight scarf would be nicer I think.

Marmite is for B vitamins and late night snacks.

Aah, maybe I am...(Obv if you're not pregnant, can kind of guess I'm not)

Jane - you've saved me pouring yeast extract on hair to see if it makes it shiney

She is a good friend and did ask the secret to my quickly svelte (OK, svelter) shape after ds3 so think Spanx would be an item that she may not bothet to get herself but (hopefully) would be pleased rather than offended at receiving.

Did think of Lanisoh as she is intending to bf but kind of wanted gift to be about her lokking/feeling good after birth rather than in any way practical IYSWIM

Apologies for rubbish spelling.

Just reading up on Nars Orgasm and sounds excellent

Dry shampoo - time spent washing, drying and styling hair should be spent sleeping.

And if she's got long hair then clips / scrunchies to keep it out of the way when winding - so many times did I walk around with milky sick in my hair.

Maldon sea salt for bathing if she has stitches (healing properties)

Dry shampoo.

Fuck washing your hair when you could be ASLEEP.

Brilliant x-post jenduff

I couldn't have done without my trinny and susannahs hold me in pants!!

What about benfit ooh la la lift?

Lots and lots of chocolate .... Oh and condoms !

hand cream, your hands get all scaley from so much washing after nappy changes. Tisserand one is gorg and so is crabtree & evelyn rose one.

Origins Ginger Float bubblebath

My mum gave me this after my DS was born...like being transported to heaven!!

Ooh, wtach pot never boils and all that!

Now tell me more about ooh la la lift vs bo-oig vs lemon aid vs erase paste

Have ooh la lift, how does it compare to touche eclat?

The condoms should have gone in my survival kit Ds1 was 9 months when ds2 conceived1

Hand cream a realyy good idea, never thought of that (looks down at scaly hands)

Some snazzytissues for those horrid baby blues

Iremember sobbing my heart out and my Dh walked in with my ds holding a massive bar of CDM .... Perfect ... !

And what about a cabbage for when her milk comes in!

Ooh la la lift is great just brightens up the below eye area making it all shimmery I slop it on every morning with their lemon aid too! Haven't tried touché éclat think I will tho.

Fuck me, want to spend a fortune now...

Spanx £30
Nars £21
Champagne £20
Origin Bubbles £21

Want them aalll

Karma means when I next get pregnant I'll get all these, doesn't it [hopeful]?