Reply to Best Meal to Bring New Mom

Forum Index » Expectant and Postpartum Moms

Reply to "Best Meal to Bring New Mom"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband CAN cook, but if he's cooking and doing all the dishes after he gets home from work I'm responsible for keeping track of the older kid, bathing, and getting him to bed as well as taking care of the newborn. Which may be the new normal we have to adjust tk, but when the newborn is cluster feeding every hour in the evening right now, I literally don't have enough hands. Freeing up half an hour to an hour of my husband's time from cooking is a godsend. [/quote]

Ever hear of crock pots or slow cookers?  I made a huge pot of beef stew on Friday with enough to give to elderly couple next door for two meals.  You and your husband should have thought of these things prior to you getting pregnant.  Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency for anyone else.  In this day and age there is no excuse for meal trains.  Call for carry-out.

[/quote]

np  There may be no need for it but, it is a long tradition in community!  The community of family and friends are welcoming a new member to the community and doing so by supporting the family.  It isn't about the food per say.  It is an expression of LOVE.

Maybe you need more love and caring.

Who prepares before they get pregnant?[/quote]

People who are organized and use their brains for something other than a hat rack!  I cook large amounts of chili (both meat and lentil) and put in large cupcake pans, freeze,and later put on freezer bags.  I do the same with spaghetti sauce, lasagna, meatloaf.  It's easy.  Nine months is ample time to cook and freeze meals for post birth use.[/quote]

Calm down. No one is saying meal trains are owed and we don’t have a lot of friends/family here so we haven’t really been part of one. But here is why you could be unprepared. My first arrived 4 weeks early literally right before Labor Day weekend when I had planned to make a bunch of freezer meals. A few neighbors dropped off food with salad and bread which we were unbelievably grateful for as our fridge was empty, we didn’t yet have Instacart, and were generally a little overwhelmed as first time parents. The second time around baby 2 was again almost 4 weeks early and we made full use of Instacart/uber eats as needed. But It was even harder with the older one, as that left very little time for advance meal prepping and a clingy toddler who didn’t understand why there was a new baby that cried a lot. [/quote]

You didn't know you were pregnant six months earlier?  Frozen food can, if properly stored, keeps for a long time with no freezer burn.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics