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Gift/Recovery items for a friend...help!

MrsSmith0731MrsSmith0731 member
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I posed this question on another board and thought I'd ask you mama's directly, TIA!!!  Big Smile  

I have a girlfriend who is having her 3rd baby via c-section on the 9th (both of her girls were c-sec too). Her two little girls are 5 and 3 yrs old (and are QUITE a handful). She is a SAHM and will have the girls and the new baby at home alone with her while she's recovering. Her DH is an electrician with the union so his work schedule varies from month to month, but currently he's working 10 hr days 6-7 days a week and unfortunately can't be around to help as much as he'd like.

My DH and I are planning to take over a few meals and to babysit her girls here and there so she can spend some alone time with the baby and take care of herself too.

I don't have experience with c-section recovery, so c-sec mama's is there anything else that you can think of that we could do to help her out? She's already stresssed something terrible from dealing with her two girls and being uncomfortably pregnant so I'd like to help as much as I can before I got back to work on the 26th. *BTW I have a 6 wk old too, so I have to keep that in mind in regards to how much I can help her with*

Also they havent revealed the sex of the baby to anyone and I would like to get her a baby gift, something cute but useful since she is on her 3rd baby.

 

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Re: Gift/Recovery items for a friend...help!

  • measrnmeasrn member

    I think what you have planned is perfect! Maybe a gift basket with some easy to eat snacks (it's easy to forget to feed yourself).

    I just had my fourth and the most helpful things I received was my mom making dinner and taking the kids out to play for a little bit :)

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  • MrsSmith0731MrsSmith0731 member
    Thanks ladies!!
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  • 1CINCYGIRL1CINCYGIRL

    I would make sure peanut butter and jelly was in your gift basket.  DS rarely ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when it was just him, but after DD he ate them often while I was healing.  I was so tired and sore, and it was easy.  Also maybe get a gift card (not sure if they make them) to netflix for the kids.  DD was a winter baby and we watched a lot of netflix to keep DD healthy.  Obviously keeping the kids would help, but see if you can keep them at times that she would be busy such as follow up visits for her at OB or when she takes the new LO to the doctor.  There is a ton of paperwork to fill out for a new baby and it would let her focus on LO if the other 2 were not with her.  You are doing a great thing, I wish I had help during the day after my c-section.

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