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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Food. Especially food you can eat with one hand that's moderately nutritious. Veggie-filled empanadas or other savory filled pastries. Morning glory muffins. Snack balls with peanut butter and oats.[/quote]

Same op here. I know alot of people like to give gift cards, and those are also great, but in the bleary early days, when my husband was back at work, I didn't have the foresight to plan ahead and place an order for 60-90 minutes from when I would need food. I would be nursing and all of a sudden I would be RAVENOUSLY hungry- and hobble, hunched over, holding the baby, to the pantry, where there was nothing but a jar of almond butter with the oil on top. Then I'd try to maneuver the jar open with my chin and non-dominant hand. Then I'd spill oil on myself. Then I'd scoop almond butter out with my finger and eat it. Or a similar scenario with a packet of stale saltines. Or a handful of cold leftover takeout rice clumped together.  Just being real here.

If some magic friend just appeared with a basket of muffins, the joy would have been indescribable. [/quote]

And you nor your H could make online orders in the evenings to stock the pantry/fridge so you weren't hobbling, hunched over eating clumped rice? :roll: 2 adults could only manage stale saltines, almond butter, and clumpy rice? [/quote]

Please. If you want to shame me over my difficult postpartum period, when my husband had to travel overseas for weeks, I didn’t know anyone locally, and I was barely recovered from a postpartum hemorrhage, go right ahead. Plenty of moms I know struggled during this period. And yes, not everyone has it together in the early weeks. But go on, shame me for my lack of snack-preparedness.[/quote]

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