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When you had your baby in hospital...

ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
...did you receive a little bag full of goodies filled with product samples, information brochures, baby advertising brochures, baby magazines etc to take home? We do in Australia.

If yes, can you please tell me where you live (city, state etc) and the hospital name please.

I just wrote a book (http://www.educatingbabies.com) and one target market is new mothers at hospitals.

Thanks for your help! :)
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    yes, for all 3

    1 in Hartford the other 2 in New Britain, Connecticut

    Hartford Hospital sucked, But New Britains, was good
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  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    I don't know that i've heard of any hospital that does not give those out. it also helps if you get to know some of the nurses...preemie pampers are really expensive
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    prism wrote:
    I don't know that i've heard of any hospital that does not give those out. it also helps if you get to know some of the nurses...preemie pampers are really expensive

    Ohyeah...I learned and made good with ALL the nurses!
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  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    Ohyeah...I learned and made good with ALL the nurses!

    so you wet your diaper to get their attention? :D
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    prism wrote:
    I don't know that i've heard of any hospital that does not give those out. it also helps if you get to know some of the nurses...preemie pampers are really expensive

    Excellent! I was hoping USA would do the same.

    Are they free there as well?

    What are premmie pampers? EDIT...nappies/diapers.
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  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    prism wrote:
    so you wet your diaper to get their attention? :D
    whatever it takes ;)
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  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    Excellent! I was hoping USA would do the same.

    Are they free there as well?

    What are premmie pampers? EDIT...nappies/diapers.

    yeah the goodie/sample bag is free here too.

    yep and since preemie pampers are so teeny-tiny and use less materials you'd think that they'd be cheaper than the others
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    prism wrote:
    yeah the goodie/sample bag is free here too.

    yep and since preemie pampers are so teeny-tiny and use less materials you'd think that they'd be cheaper than the others

    Can you remember what the goodie bags are called in the US or who distributes them?

    In Australia, they are called Bounty Bags (http://www.bountybags.com.au).
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  • mindimindi Posts: 1,862
    Usually the formula companies are the ones who give them out, well the ones who give them to the hospitals to give out.
    Let's see it is Enfamil and Similac.
    They usually have different ones for bottle feeding moms and breast feeding moms.
    I got one each time I delivered my kids except when I had the twins.
    But that was a bad experience all around. My twins went directly to the Children's Hospital and I had to stay there , at the regular hospital, for almost a week.

    Oh the hospitals were in Bridgeton MO and Florissant MO.
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    mindi wrote:
    Usually the formula companies are the ones who give them out, well the ones who give them to the hospitals to give out.
    Let's see it is Enfamil and Similac.
    They usually have different ones for bottle feeding moms and breast feeding moms.
    I got one each time I delivered my kids except when I had the twins.
    But that was a bad experience all around. My twins went directly to the Children's Hospital and I had to stay there , at the regular hospital, for almost a week.

    Oh the hospitals were in Bridgeton MO and Florissant MO.

    Thanks! Did the bags include promotional/advertising flyers and brochures etc for a whole range of different baby products? Or was it mainly filled with breastfeeding info?
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  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    Here in Belgium, the mither receives a box with products, advertising, information, etc. And then we receive (by mail) 2 or 3 other boxes during the first year of the child.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    ...did you receive a little bag full of goodies filled with product samples, information brochures, baby advertising brochures, baby magazines etc to take home? We do in Australia.

    If yes, can you please tell me where you live (city, state etc) and the hospital name please.

    I just wrote a book (http://www.educatingbabies.com) and one target market is new mothers at hospitals.

    Thanks for your help! :)


    yes i did.

    liverpool hospital, liverpool, new south wales.
    gosford hospital, gosford, new south wales. :)
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  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    I had about four bags of stuff for one baby because my boyfriend worked for health insurance company at the time and could get them free. :D
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    I received a Bounty Bag for both kids, but never got them in hospital! Only got them from my chemist (?) and also one from the health nurse I think (before I had the kids). Cant remember excactly where I got them but im 100% sure the hospital didnt give them to me.
    I am in Western Aust.
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  • mindimindi Posts: 1,862
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    Thanks! Did the bags include promotional/advertising flyers and brochures etc for a whole range of different baby products? Or was it mainly filled with breastfeeding info?
    Yep they had all kinds of brochures and coupons and even samples of all kinds of baby related stuff. Wipes,all kinds of baby lotions,even detergent.

    The differences in the bottle feeding bag and the breastfeeding bag were that the breast feeding one only had a small formula sample and had a insulated bag and ice packs with it.

    Three years later and we are still using one of the diaper bags the stuff came in, our stuff here comes in a diaper bag. We use ours to store all of my one twins meds, she takes a few every day. Just keeps it all in one place and makes it easy for us when we take her to the Dr, we just grab the bag so we can have everything right there.
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  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    Good stuff!

    I'm looking at advertising in these bags so a BIG THANKS to everyone for the info! :)
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  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    In Ireland, new mothers get bounty bags too. But I don't think they got them from the hospital either. As far as I recall, my sister got a voucher from her health nurse to get them from a shop/supermarket.
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  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Yep. We get them in the UK too. The first one had vouchers in it to pick others at different stages too. Weaning etc.. And If you join Baby Clubs at certain stores, You get their own branded products too.
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    Yeah, I got one from Similac. I think every hospital in the country hands out samples from one formula company or another, depending on what brand they stock.
  • ringoringo Posts: 504
    Yeah, we got a bag full of stuff when my daughter was born. We got it at the hospital. It had pamphlets, a parenting magazine, formula sample, along with some other things.

    Hosptial - Howard County General in Columbia, MD.

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  • pjhunz28pjhunz28 Posts: 206
    Parkland Medical Center in Derry, NH. got goodie bags both times :)
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,176
    Yes we got one both times filled with all kinds of useful and non-useful stuff

    a few pamphlets for marketing materials, but mostly stuff

    you can bet we stuffed it full of of those similac ponies (which seem impossible to find outside the hospital)

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  • mindimindi Posts: 1,862
    Almost always the nurse will tell you to clean out the bassinet too. I don't think they can re-use anything that was opened. And they always tell me to take whatever diapers are on there too.
    To 10c; "Your PJ tshirt should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady." - bionicamy
  • releaselaurenreleaselauren Posts: 384
    My memory is a little fuzzy as my "babies" are now 9 and 6 but I recall leaving with a bunch of stuff from the hospital.

    What I can recall:

    formula samples
    coupons for diapers
    the nipple-grease stuff (can't remember the name, starts with "L")
    dorky mini diaper bag that held the "freebies" from the hospital
    packets of info on, basically, how to take care of the baby, umbilical cord, etc. (didn't need that info for the second baby as I was already an expert). ;)
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  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    a suburb in Chicago called Berwyn (thanks Svenguli)

    at MacNeal Hospital to be exact and I just LOVED the goody bag.......
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    releaselauren wrote:
    the nipple-grease stuff (can't remember the name, starts with "L")

    Its called Lansinoh - medical grade purified lanolin. Helps wound healing on cracked nipples. (I used to be a leader for La Leche League and we sold it)
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  • releaselaurenreleaselauren Posts: 384
    JaneNY wrote:
    Its called Lansinoh - medical grade purified lanolin. Helps wound healing on cracked nipples. (I used to be a leader for La Leche League and we sold it)

    Thank you. I knew it was "lan-something"

    Great product! I went through tubes of that stuff while bfeeding my boys.

    sorry. TMI! :o
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