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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know.  Maybe I had a more difficult time than most during those first few weeks, but I was a complete mess and really didn't want any unannounced visitors, even if it was just a nice neighbor asking what they could make me for dinner.  If you want to make sure it's useful, I'd just give a gift card for the neighborhood pizza place.[/quote]

And we were the exact opposite.  When we had our twins, while we appreciated the gift cards, we appreciated the delivered meals more.  The delivered meals we could pop in the microwave and eat in the small window between feeding the twins.  With the gift card, either one of us had to go down for pick up or we had to call and wait 30-45 minutes.  With the twins, inevitably, when the delivered food finally arrived one of them would wake up and we still wouldn't be able to eat.  Sometimes there's only a one hour window when your new infant(s) is asleep.  Do you want to spend most of that waiting for food to arrive or to just heat food up and eat?  I realize that we had twins and OP's neighbor has a singleton, but I have friends who had singletons who also had small windows of freedom to shower, sleep, eat, and go to the bathroom and waiting for takeout or delivery was not really a useful option until weeks later.   It takes up about 1 or 2 minutes of your time (or DH's time) to say what your food preferences and/or allergies are and then a few minutes when the food is delivered.  I still stand by my recommendation to ask first and prepare a meal.[/quote]

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