Hospital gown. Changed to some comfy clothes after I took a shower. Recovery was not that messy, maybe because I was wearing Depends. LOL. I love the Depends, best recommendation ever!
I have a little black sundress that I'm planning to use since I don't have the option of a hospital gown. Stretchy smocked on top with removable straps and mid thigh so it's decent but gets out of the way easily. DH swears I'm going to just end up naked though. I'm generally pretty modest, but I sleep naked and clothes do tend to make me a little claustrophobic.
Post by SusanBAnthony on Oct 13, 2012 21:49:06 GMT -5
I wore the naked.
I came in in transition (3 hour total labor) and immediately started taking my clothes off. A few things may have been whipped across the room in pain/frustration 8-D
I got in the tub pretty much right away so naked was required.
Pp, I wore the hospital gowns. They were butt ugly but had openings for nursing, and I didn't have to worry about bodily fluids, etc.
For dd, I had a home birth. Again was naked in labor (wore a dress in early labor bc waistbands on my waist really bothered me). Post partum I wore a horribly ugly grandma nightgown that zipped up the front, so I could easily unzip the top to nurse. I think I found it at sears, lol.
No nursing bra required for the first couple days until your milk comes in. I wore a sleep nursing bra the first week-ish until I started getting dressed and wasn't just wearing pp's all day. Then I wore nursing tanks. Wait to buy proper nursing bars until you figure out what your pp size will be.
Post by MadamePresident on Oct 13, 2012 22:02:33 GMT -5
I bought a strapy semi clingy short nightgown, but never got it out of the closet. I was pretty much naked the entire time. It made immediate skin to skin easy. Afterwards I wore a t-shirt and stayed in bed.
Hospital Gown, Bra, sleep mask on my head ( no idea why, but I wear if every night & everytime someone tried to take it off me I yelled that I needed it. I also wore my ugg style slippers until i was pushing & the nurse took them off & replaced them with fuzzy socks so I wouldn't get them nasty.
Hospital gown both times. The first time I wore it the whole time I was in the hospital. The second time I changed into nursing pj's as soon as my cath was removed.
Eithe I have the messiest births or some of you have the cleanest. I went through about 4 gowns while in labor and about 5 during recovery because of all the fluids.
Post by dragonfly08 on Oct 14, 2012 10:01:04 GMT -5
Hospital gown, both times. They weren't stylish but they were comfortable and I didn't care if/when they got stained.
After #2 I did change into my own gown. That lasted all of 30 minutes. The hospital gown was just so much easier for BFing, moving around, medical checks.
A lot of posters have mentioned yoga pants. Check with L&D at your hospital; while I know they can't force you to do anything, mine at least *strongly* discouraged pants because they make things difficult for the nurses when they come in to check incisions, stitches, etc. And they did that a lot. Last thing I'd have wanted when half asleep at 3AM was to have to wiggle out of my yoga pants for an exam.
My hospital didn't provide gowns, so I wore my own clothes throughout.
Labor/delivery: sports bra, inexpensive t-shirt (was thrown away after delivery), black yoga pants. I just folded the sports bra down to nurse immediately pp.
I wore my own clothes/pajamas (mostly in dark colors, lots of black and charcoal gray) for the rest of my stay.
ETA: The only piece of clothing that was discarded was my t-shirt, but I'd planned for it (white Hanes V-neck=disposable) and only because I was wearing it when they initially handed the baby to me.
Hospital gown, both times. They weren't stylish but they were comfortable and I didn't care if/when they got stained.
After #2 I did change into my own gown. That lasted all of 30 minutes. The hospital gown was just so much easier for BFing, moving around, medical checks.
A lot of posters have mentioned yoga pants. Check with L&D at your hospital; while I know they can't force you to do anything, mine at least *strongly* discouraged pants because they make things difficult for the nurses when they come in to check incisions, stitches, etc. And they did that a lot. Last thing I'd have wanted when half asleep at 3AM was to have to wiggle out of my yoga pants for an exam.
You're not the first person I've heard that has had checks for stitches/incisions, etc, but with my vaginal delivery, I wasn't checked there once by a nurse or my OB. They asked questions, but never did I have someone poking around down there. I just find the variety in the way things are done for each hospital/medical team really interesting.
I had a ton of stitches with DS1 and a few with DS2, and both times a nurse checked them a few times while I was in the hospital. Yoga pants would have been annoying for that reason and also because I was changing pads/witch hazel pads/ice packs and spraying dermaplast down there all the time just to try to keep myself comfortable. I really like the nightgowns that are basically just like a nursing tank that turns into a mid-thigh dress for the hospital.
Hospital gown to deliver. Changed into pajama pants, a nursing tank, and a robe that night. No way would I have wanted to spend two days in a hospital gown.
Hospital gown, both times. They weren't stylish but they were comfortable and I didn't care if/when they got stained.
After #2 I did change into my own gown. That lasted all of 30 minutes. The hospital gown was just so much easier for BFing, moving around, medical checks.
A lot of posters have mentioned yoga pants. Check with L&D at your hospital; while I know they can't force you to do anything, mine at least *strongly* discouraged pants because they make things difficult for the nurses when they come in to check incisions, stitches, etc. And they did that a lot. Last thing I'd have wanted when half asleep at 3AM was to have to wiggle out of my yoga pants for an exam.
I had checks. My pants were very stretchy and a size or two too big so they didn't have an issue.