Undies - Post Birth

I've been hearing a lot of people saying they have purchased "granny" undies or disposables etc for wear after birth. Why? I know that we need to wear big thick maternity pads for up to a few weeks but I was just going to go with a few pairs of ladies boy-leg undies (cotton of course). Am I missing something here?

in the event of a c section the granny undies are way more comfortable so that they sit above the cut rather than underneath. Also because that way you can just chuck them out if you leak through the pads (which can happen alot). I only wore them for just over a week but it was sooooo handy having them instead of normal undies.

Yeah I took a couple of pairs of boy leg ones to hospital and the first thing I asked my friend for when she rang up post birth was a pack of granny undies lol.

They get pretty wrecked and you need the biggest undies you can get because you're basically sitting on a pad that's so big it's like a mattress and you still have a big belly.

Edited by Bobbie

yip to what everyone else has said. With my first i took a pack of granny undies and also some boy leg ones and i took the BL ones off almost straight away! and put the granny ones on!, i had natural births so no CS wound but i still found the spacious yet "surf board pad supporting" granny undies a hell of alot more comfy!....second time around i just went straight to the granny packs!!....

oh and i did end up throwing most out and wouldv been a bit peeved throwing out somewhat pricier BL undies.

Monikah! I didnt even realised you had popped! AND your back in here already! AND your tummy is almost normal sized?! WTF! Lol do share your secret!

AND congratulations!!!

Sorry thread highjack...

I didn't find the cut of undies made much difference for me and my c/s. I had hipster type granny undies so the elastic wasn't too firm, I guess that's all that matters. Boyleg would be equally as good for pads.

Thanks girls, I'll throw in my bag the boy legs, a few pairs of normal cheapo cottons I have and a few pairs of DH's undies and if they all fail me I'll send someone out granny panty shopping

I just took the grottier pairs I had in my drawer that I had been wearing while I was preg, they were comfy and I didn't feel bad chucking them when they got grotty (which they did).

My other advice on the subject (and it took me till baby#4 to figure this one out) is that you can fold up the blue bed liner thingies into a rectangle and tuck them in behind your surfboards for the first 24 hours or so, they catch any leaks and keep your knickers cleaner.

Oooh good idea Emma and Monikah - I will definitely improvise a bit more this time around. I had a few leaks the first few days last time.

Of course when you have a C-sect initially you don't get any undies and just get to sit on the bed liner pads since you have a catheter. Ahh good times

Ahh the ultimate end to your dignity laying on the bed after a c-section with no knickers on, a catheter shoved up there and bleeding all over bed liners AND having nurses wipe you up AND having a beautiful blonde slim doctor put her hand up there to check for clots!