What did you wear at hospital after giving birth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it worth bringing clothes from home, or will I just end up in the hospital gown the whole time?

Wear the hospital gown. No need to wear special outfits, you just gave birth. Geez.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wore yoga pants and nursing tanks (Target has good ones). The yoga pants helped keep the enormous pads in place, imo.

Same.

+1

Soooo much more comfortable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't bring my own pjs because I didn't want to bleed on them. Turns out I wasn't bleeding after birth much more than a period - I asked my DH to get my pjs for me. I'm curious how many people mention showers. I bleed a lot during birth so maybe that's some of it, but I was really lightheaded for my whole hospital stay - I didn't feel well enough to attend the entire class pre hospital discharge and laid back down. I never tried showering at the hospital (48 hours) because I felt too lightheaded.

That sucks. I showered a couple hours afterwards, and each of the two mornings.

Me too. I had a long labor but I was up and about and showered and didn't bleed much after so I was in my own yoga pants and showered a couple times at the hospital. I though about depends but didn't need them in the end. Getting up to pee and use the sitz bath often enough that I just changed the pads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't bring my own pjs because I didn't want to bleed on them. Turns out I wasn't bleeding after birth much more than a period - I asked my DH to get my pjs for me. I'm curious how many people mention showers. I bleed a lot during birth so maybe that's some of it, but I was really lightheaded for my whole hospital stay - I didn't feel well enough to attend the entire class pre hospital discharge and laid back down. I never tried showering at the hospital (48 hours) because I felt too lightheaded.

That sucks. I showered a couple hours afterwards, and each of the two mornings.

Me too. I had a long labor but I was up and about and showered and didn't bleed much after so I was in my own yoga pants and showered a couple times at the hospital. I though about depends but didn't need them in the end. Getting up to pee and use the sitz bath often enough that I just changed the pads.

I had a csection and showered tge morning after a gave birth and then each day thereafter. However, I didn't have any pp bleeding at all. I was anemic and had a blood transfusion before being discharged, so that may have contributed to my lack of bleeding.

[Anonymous]

The nurse got me up and into the shower late at night after my c. She made me change gowns and even got my toothbrush for me. I felt so much better. I showered the next two mornings too. You definitely want to shower because you sweat, puke, get goo all over.

[Anonymous]

I'm little and the hospital gown was huge on, and this very uncomfortable, on me. I felt like I was wearing a sheet!