What did you take to hospital when your first grandchild was born?

Yes we are lucky to be invited to visit in hospital! Having read your posts, I feel much better about keeping gifts until they all arrive home. Every hour seems like a day to us so goodness knows how it feels for them!

Had a phone call just after midnight (mercifully, unusually I had had a few hours sleep) to go to DD's house (a few minutes away by car) when first DGD was born nearly 20 years ago. So I just took myself and had the privilege of being there (with gracious SIL) and two young (and v competent) midwives to be there when she was born just after 6am. I fell in love instantly. Gifts, flowers, meals, toys came later.
Oh Wildrose, enjoy??

My daughter was desperate for a goats cheese tart and a glass of wine. Perhaps something Mum had been denied through the pregnancy that she really fancied.

We did take flowers one time and sadly they were verboten. Son put them somewhere obscure and forgot to take them home in the excitement..hey ho.

I took my daughter...I was there with her and her husband through the whole process ...a wonderful experience...?

Oh how lovely it all sounds! So many different stories of meeting your little grandchild for the first time Thank you Newquay, I certainly intend to!

Rose

i always remember my in laws turning up with beautiful flowers and a big box of Milk Tray!!! Of course this was in the days when flowers were allowed and chocolates were quite expensive and a real treat!!!.

Enjoy Wildrose. I'm sure you are all on edge with excitement. The birth of a first grandchild is such a unique experience. I was astonished at the huge rush of love I felt. Didn't expect that.

Let us know when you join the grandparent club.

25 years - too long ago to remember! The next two came home within hours so no hospital visit needed. The next one got a panda and the last one a penguin.
Enjoy the new arrival, wildrose. When all's said and done, the presents will be long forgotten but you will have a new and wonderful relationship.

I can only echo what Judthepud says. We got to hold our grandson when he was about an hour old. It was the most amazing experience. We didn't actually take anything to the hospital; it was all a bit of a flap, but DD asked if we could pop down to Mothercare for a couple of things she'd forgotten to take with her in the rush, and we bought Duncan, a small teddy, who our GS, now nine, still loves to bits. We took flowers and champagne when they came home.

They do truly just melt your heart don't they? What's that car sticker say "if I'd known how much fun grandchildren would be, I would have had them first" lol!
When our DD2 had her first baby 3 hours journey away, the first we knew was when they sent a photo of Mum and baby together! Hadn't even been told she was in labour She's married to a doc and was having dinner with a group of fellow docs while she was in labour and pacing about. . . . She probably knew I would have just jumped into the car no matter what time of day or night! There is a premier lodge nearby which we have sometimes used. . . . so would have just booked into there and then gone and pressed my nose to hospital door. Since then we have seen DGD many times there and in our home too and face time regularly so all's well?

I took DDiL a basket of her favourite Occitan Lavender products. There would be plenty of time later to take things for the baby. She had a difficult labour and mother and baby were kept in for 5 days so I reckoned the most important thing to do was pamper the new mother.

Posh smeĺlies for Mum and a teddy for GS

Jelly tots! Have a lovely picture of dd being fed jelly tots by her brother following a traumatic labour and emergency section. No sign of the baby! (He was being cuddled off camera by his dad)

I saw my twin granddaughters 48 hours after they were born, DD1 and SIL wanted the first day after to themselves no visitors until the following day ( which nearly killed me) I took a hand knitted shawl each they each had an individual pattern and still have the shawls and know which one is theirs and a gold baby bangle . Flowers for daughter and we were at home with her for a few hours as she was discharged the same day.

I went down soon after for a week to help her, twins and a Caesarian is a hard mix!
Enjoy your grandchild they change your life. My friend who had got grandchildren already said I wouldn't understand until they arrived, how right she she was the love was completely overwhelming and still is. They are the centre of my world

Not a lot. A card a unisex outfit I bought previously,(not in small baby size) and DDs Mother in Law. Us grannies saw him at the same time. I picked him off DD and handed him to t'other gran who is not very mobile.

I brought my camera and some flowers fr his mummy.