New Baby Packs
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Topic: New Baby Packs
Posted By: Parki
Subject: New Baby Packs
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 12:29pm
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Hi ladies,
I don't know if all hospitals give out those packs when you leave but for anyone who has received them, do you knwo who makes them up? Is it the hospital itself or plunket? Also, do they normally have discount vouchers in there or mostly just samples of stuff? TIA 
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Posted By: ALittleLoopy
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 12:44pm
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I never got one from hospital but I did get the bounty pack when i was pregnant....the hospital did give us some bits we were using though like some disposables, the old cloth nappy we were using as a wrap...etc -------------    CHEM 6/12+ |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 1:21pm
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Usually the packs are there when you get up to your room. I'm not sure if they are still doing them? I think they are bounty?
You also get one around 15mths when you go for your vax. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
A = 01.02.04 & C = 16.01.09 & G = 30.03.12 |
Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 2:00pm
| We got a voucher for a bounty pack to pick up in the kidstore in town, is that what you mean? Or do some hopsitals give out extras? |
Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 2:07pm
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I got given a bundle of samples and discount vouchers, and a (large) tube of weleda - it was just on the bed. Given that it doesn't seem to be consistant over the country, it must somehow depend what district you're in, no idea what that means as far as who funds it! -------------   
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Posted By: dixie
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 2:27pm
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The Bounty website says you should get them from the maternity unit or your MW, but have a list of pharmacies on there you can pick it up from if you don't get given it.
ReachME website also sends you free packs for babies and toddlers. I haven't received mine yet so don't know what is in there. |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 2:35pm
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There is a maternity one, a newborn one & then the toddler one.
Bowie, That voucher might be the bounty pack?? . ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com">
A = 01.02.04 & C = 16.01.09 & G = 30.03.12 |
Posted By: bumblebee
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 2:57pm
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Yea we got a bounty pack from the hospital, it wasnt that great just had some samples, pamphlets and a baby bounty book nothing to rave about.
I think the packs get made up somewhere then gets shipped to your hospital etc. in bulk ------------- [URL=http://lilyslim.com][IMG]http://swlm.lilyslim.com/xSCep12.png][/URL] [URL=http://lilypie.com][IMG]http://lb1m.lilypie.com/yjadp12.png][/URL] |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 3:01pm
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Not all hospitals allow the bounty packs in them. Middlemore for example dont, something to do with the advertising in them.
The other place is Reach Me. they do packs they send out! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 6:56pm
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I never got anything but then I was at Waitakere and that doesn't surprise me.
I did get a Reach Me Pack which has samples and vouchers. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Bexta
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 8:28pm
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I didn't get anything in the hospital but then the mat ward was too full and I spent the night sharing a delivery suite with another mum and bub!! I used the voucher from my pregnany bounty pack but agree with bumblebee it was pretty average.
The reach me pack was awesome though - a big box of vouchers and samples. But I think you can only get one every 12 months or something like that. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Angel Baby June 2010 
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Posted By: Whateversville
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 9:31pm
| My hospital bounty pack was cool. Samples, vouchers, treasures mag etc. Reachme pack was better. Toddler reach me pack is average. But anything free is awesome |
Posted By: CJsays
Date Posted: 25 May 2011 at 9:22pm
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unichem pharmacies have the bounty packs to give out, you just ask at counter... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 26 May 2011 at 5:56pm
I got a pack from middlemore when I had bella...the nurse gave it to me as I was waiting to go in for my CS. It had nappies and pamphlets and samples in it, and the plunket book. ------------- |
Bizzy wrote:Posted By: newme
Date Posted: 26 May 2011 at 7:06pm
| Chch Womens no longer give out Bounty Packs. 3 years ago I got one, but when I had my DS, 6 months ago, I asked for one and the nurse told me that they no longer give them out as they just became far too much advertising, and very little in the way of samples etc. But you can get a voucher from the Bounty website to pick one up from a pharmacy if you want one. |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 26 May 2011 at 9:57pm
Some hospitals give out a box or bag or something or other with freebies/vouchers/information. Ours used to give this cool box which had your well child book in it, birth cert forms and loads of information, a swaddling cloth, nappy samples etc, but they have been stopped here. Now I work in PH I know why - it is funding and time. They have to pay someone time to make them up and they are quite time consuming and in this day and age of belt tigtening, haivng some admin girls make up the boxes might mean they are surplus to requirement if they don't have enough of their own work to do to keep them occupied lol 
Also there are issues with advertising - most hospitals aren't allowed to be seen to "align" themselves with any particualr brand or don't wish to be seen to endorse one product over antoher and then there are the complications of the wHO code etc and what info you can and can't give out "unsolicited". ETA this was "in addition" to bounty packs. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |