What was your first meal after giving birth?

The hospital gave me a croissant turkey sandwich and to this day it's still the best thing I've ever had

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A twister ice lolly after having gestational diabetes was heaven!!!

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I had sushi, my husband knew I wanted that my whole pregnancy 🤣

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A roast beef sandwich, it was so good!

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I think it was sushi? With my first I just wanted a turkey sandwich but with my son (my youngest) my husband brought me sushi.

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I swear it was a ham and Swiss sandwich in ordered and I ordered them everyday for lunch and sometimes dinner

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The chocolate cake that hospital provided was truly top notch. One of the best I ever had.

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With my 1st it was a grape popsicle and it was the best thing EVER! I hadn’t eaten in like 10 hours and after C-section they still wanted me to wait or have ice chips and a nurse brought the popsicle saying it was flavored ice chips ā™„ļø

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We ordered pizza! 🄰

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Cheese omelet and bacon since it was about 10am

With my son I really wanted a pancake and I was starving and the one I got was so pitiful and small 😩

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My husband got me sushi

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I schedule my csections for Mondays because it is enchilada night, and that is the only edible thing our local hospital makes

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Tea and toast with loads of butter šŸ˜…it was like midnight by the time I was stitched up and showered and ready

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The midwife made me toast with butter and omg I've never enjoyed anything so much before in my life šŸ˜‚

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My husband got me a chicken burger and fries.

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Pastrami bagels I’d been desperate for them for weeks

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My husband made me a seafood boil. I woke up 3 days after having my baby and he made it and brought it up to the hospital for me

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Croissant turkey sandwich sounds amazing wow.
First meal after birth..? I honestly don’t remember like any of them
For any of my births

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Jam on toast at the hospital and it was amazing šŸ˜‚

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I wanted a great big platter of sushi, but I gave birth at around 10 AM, so my first meal was a turkey sub and it was the greatest thing I ever had, after abstaining from deli meat for 9 months!

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Mango popsicle, clear soup. Couldn't keep anything down for 2 days after CS.

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Spinach artichoke soufflĆ© from Panera. And a chai latte! Now their chia latte has no taste and they took that soufflĆ© off the menu. But it was šŸ’Æ

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I gave birth around 10 PM so the next day my husband went and got me sushi! Ate half of it and he stuck in the fridge and the staff threw it away 😭

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I couldn’t keep down 90% of my favourites (almost none of the healthy stuff besides sometimes some seafood & fruit) for the entire 41 weeks before he came & so I was dying for greens so I had mustard & chrysanthemum 🌿 (it’s funny bc 3 weeks into introducing solids leafy veg is the only thing my son will consistently eat 🤣) but I was projectile vomiting constantly during 90% of labour so I couldn’t even look at food until a couple days later .. I think I had pumpkin the first day I ate also bc had missed starches so much bc potato had had me throwing up if I even stood close by (the irony given my home country we eat more potato than anyone by absurd amounts šŸ˜)

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I saw toast and immediately wondered if you were in the UK šŸ˜‚ I’ve heard about all the toast iterations so many times

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My girls were both born in the morning so I had breakfast. I’m pretty sure it was French toast and sausage after both.

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IHOP. It's my guilty pleasure

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I never got the tea and toast (UK) I was so upset I'd heard so much about it so my hubby got me McDonald's instead 🤣

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I got tea and toast, the toast was decent actually. Good quality bread and butter. I had to stay in for 5 days after that and the food wasn't amazing, so McDonald's on the way home from the hospital is what I count as my first meal

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Not her first meal but my friend always jokes about this chicken pie she ate 3 days after having her first. She said she she cried into this pie because it was the best pie ever šŸ˜‚

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The hospital meal haha, but then next day my husband got me sushi lol

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he sounds like a keeper. That so sweet!

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he is. That whole pregnancy i couldn't eat anything so it felt good to be able to eat again and have my favorite meal at that

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Costa BLT sandwich. First thing in 9 months I managed to keep down without being sick…heavenly!

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2 slice of brown toast and redbull

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A peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My daughter was born in the middle of the night.

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Once I was off the liquid diet, I had McDonald’s with my first. I pretty much had no appetite after my second, but I think it was Chick-fil-A.

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