Comments on: Foodie Friday: Essential foods for the new mom

By: Sadia

Sadia — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:23:18 +0000

What a great topic! I prepped and froze several weeks’ worth of casseroles during my second trimester, which were incredibly helpful once our girls came home. I’m just not a fan of cold foods!

The most thoughtful gift we got was from my coworkers, who pooled their money and bought us $200 worth of gift certificates to restaurants within walking distance of the hospital where our girls were at the NICU. This meant that my husband and I could have some quality meals without having to venture too far from the girls’ side(s) or have to worry about eating out expenses on top of the emergency purchase of breast pump and car seat.

By: Pamela Fierro

Pamela Fierro — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:17:38 +0000

Before we came home from the hospital, my mom stocked our fridge with sandwich fixin’s from the deli. During those early days, when I was starving and eating around the clock, I loved having that stuff on hand to fix a quick sandwich. Or, if I didn’t even have time for that, to roll together piece of turkey and swiss cheese as a tasty snack.

By: jannaholm

jannaholm — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:42:00 +0000

Oatmeal! I bought a large pack of flavored instant oatmeal from Costco before the boys were born and have eaten it every morning since we got home from the hospital. Oh and when my husband makes dinner on the weekends, he’ll bbq chicken or hamburger and always make way extra so I can easily reheat it and eat a chicken sandwich or hamburger on whole grain bread during the week. Also, he makes large batches of pasta and potato salad to last the week. My friend brought over homemade cinnamon rolls with extra cream cheese frosting the first week we were home and they were amazing!

By: Josy

Josy — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:58:27 +0000

I lived on scrambled eggs and bacon. It seemed I couldn’t make a day the first few weeks without eggs or I would get all shaky! Something about the protein I guess. Also cookies was a huge need in those crazy times. And when I had a chance french vanilla yogurt w/granola and cashews. I just couldn’t believe how much I could eat at a time for the first 6 weeks of breastfeeding twins. People would bring us a meal and I could have eaten the entire thing but, alas I had to let my husband and two other children eat as well. I love hearing all these birth stories, everyone is so amazing and crazy! Thanks for having this blog.

By: SusanR

SusanR — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:42:57 +0000

This is bad, but it worked. Pop Tarts! And although I don’t normally drink juice either, I drank a ton of it while pregnant (especially when on hospital bedrest) and when BF’ing. And I loved anything anyone brought over already individually portioned out and easily microwaved.

By: Goddess in Progress

Goddess in Progress — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:03:28 +0000

Ooh yeah, my mom brought me some chicken salad from a deli near my aunt’s house. I was addicted, and it was so great to have around. You could grab a forkful, you could make a quick sandwich without even needing any condiments… Yum.

And I kept a pretty good stash of Luna bars, especially when I was on my own. At least I knew they tasted pretty good (the Nutz over Chocolate variety), were reasonably filling, and had some redeeming nutritional value with the protein and all of that.

By: carrieinak

carrieinak — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:17:10 +0000

The best present I received while in the hospital was a basket full of snacks. It contained trail mix, yogurt cereal bars (Barbara’s Bakery) and Mother’s Milk Tea. I was ADDICTED to those fruit and yogurt bars as well as Mother’s Milk Tea by the time I got home from the hospital. I could easily eat an entire box of those bars in a day…and I am not the type to eat weird nutritional bars. To this day, I still love them and, even though they are way too expensive, I buy them. I also genuinly love the taste of Mother’s Milk Tea. Even though I’m completely done with the whole lactation thing, I buy it.

Oh–and egg salad sandwiches. I couldn’t get enough of them! I think my mom was constantly hard boiling eggs to make the stuff!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:05:19 +0000

Sweets were my mainstay pre-babies and definitely post-babies! I ate SOOOOO many Balance bars, Nutribars (don’t know if they even make these any more), Powerbars…all of ‘em. They were quick and VERY energy providing.
(Still eat ‘em all up!)

For me, if I drank juice, it made the babies wiggy…but I COULD eat spicy (slightly) with minimal (if any) noticable effect. Although ours were SO refluxy, who knows what was my intake and what was their struggling digestion.

Great, Great post!

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:34:35 +0000

I was a candy fiend when we first got home. I had a stash that I would raid before & after feeding the boys. I also lived on PB&J. I swear I was eating 4 or 5 sandwiches a day. I still have at least 1 a day even now and the boys are 8.5 months!

By: twinmom122606

twinmom122606 — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:15:28 +0000

I also NEVER drink Juice…BUT DRANK IT ALL THE TIME after i had the babies. There’s just something about OJ & Grape Juice & Cranberry juice…i don’t know what it was. I would request 3-4 juices each time a nurse came in to check on me. DELICIOUS! Um…and where would ANY twin mommy be without a gallon of caffeine a day…coffee, diet cokes, anything with caffeine! Also, It’s like a twin thing…but i also CRAVED chocolate chip cookies! I was soo desperate to eat them..i had my own stash in the night stand so the au pair didn’t eat them all before i had my fix. Maybe that is why i couldn’t loose the weight. I’d get up in the middle of the night and feed the babies, go in the living room and pump and then go back to bed to eat some COOKIES! AHH…the days of no sleep and lots of sweets! Now, i’ll take sleep over cookies any day! I also loved chex mix…and the dorito brand was great too!

That was a great posting! Thanks for sharing!