Most men think about how to decorate a meeting from the hospital only a day before the discharge of the woman and the baby. Especially often this happens when a woman with a child leaves the hospital on the third day.
Organizing a meeting from the hospital is a very important and enjoyable business.
How to cope on your own?
Even in a day it is quite possible to manage on your own with the preparation of any holiday. The meeting of the baby and the woman excludes visits to restaurants, as this is a completely homely celebration. However, the specificity does not mean that dishes for the festive table cannot be ordered from them with delivery or purchased ready-made in the culinary department of the supermarket. Such a simple action significantly saves time, freeing it up for decoration of an apartment or house.
This design often confuses the newly made fathers. However, in this matter, you can attract relatives and friends who are invited to this truly happy family celebration. They can share personal memories and ideas for meeting from the hospital. Discharging a newborn is a special time for everyone.
What should be avoided?
First of all, everything that is not to the liking of the young mother should be avoided. She should be comfortable, because in fact the holiday is held just for her.
Avoid:
- platitudes;
- noticeable cheapness of jewelry;
- excessive number of dishes on the festive table;
- large volumes of alcohol;
- overflowing children's various tinsel.
There are traditional attributes that accompany a meeting from the hospital. Ideas for the use of balloons, stickers with inscriptions and options for floral arrangements will tell you in any appropriate store. It remains only to choose the goods at your discretion.
However, in using these modern “three whales” of designing a solemn meeting of a baby and a woman, there are nuances that must be taken into account. Balls, flowers and stickers can not only decorate the holiday, but also spoil it.
About stickers
Car stickers are used almost everywhere. Template phrases look corny, but this does not mean that they do not need to be used.
In addition to the standard words of gratitude in various variations, you need to decorate the car with funny stickers that correspond to the gender of the baby. That is, when the son appears - by airplanes, cars, trains, daughters - bows, sponges, flowers, dolls and so on. The inscription immediately ceases to look corny.
About balls
Garlands of balloons in the minds of most people make out a meeting from the hospital. Balls are very beautiful, but extremely controversial. The sound of a bursting balloon is very similar to a shot, and surpasses it in its effect on the nervous system and hearing. In addition to concerns about the integrity of the baby’s eardrum, another possible point is against the use of balls. With such a sharp sound that rang out suddenly, the human brain starts reflex functions. Therefore, the one who holds the baby can just drop his hands and drop the child. Controlling reflexes is very difficult.
This does not mean that one should refrain from the beauty of balloons. The meeting of the wife from the hospital may be accompanied by the launch into the sky of rubber bubbles filled with helium, imitating soap bubbles. It is very effective and able to touch even the most callous and stiff woman and cause the envy of the other young mothers.
All kinds of garlands, bouquets, other compositions from balls can not be installed in the nursery and in the corridor. But in the room where the table is laid, they are quite appropriate.
About flowers for a young mother
An extract from the hospital, a meeting at its doorstep means a woman has a bouquet of flowers. Now you can see a large number of tips not to acquire huge and elaborate compositions due to possible childhood allergies and other similar moments. Of course, you can limit yourself to a small and modest bouquet, but there isn’t much sense in this.
If the child is allergic to pollen, then from a single tulip he will begin to sneeze and cry in the same way as from a million roses. But the young mother will be upset by the lack of a magnificent bouquet, even if she does not say so.
Avoiding embarrassment with a possible allergy is simple - the bouquet is packed in a thin transparent plastic wrap sealed on top, and below it is intercepted with satin ribbons similar to wedding compositions. In this package, the flowers will be visible, they can be put on the back seat or in the trunk, without fear of damage. And an allergy to pollen with such a design is excluded.
What you must not forget
A meeting from the maternity hospital, the organization’s ideas that relate mainly to surprises for a young mother, a festive feast, decorative design of a house and a car, also implies a gift for medical personnel. This is a tradition that should not be neglected.
Flowers are given to the staff, they should be much more modest than the bouquet of the hero of the occasion, and they should be enough for all women working in the department. That is, you can buy, for example, 15 simple identical roses of a neutral color.
In addition to flowers, doctors are given sweets and alcohol, but this moment remains at the discretion of the young father, you can limit yourself to a large cake.
About photographers
A meeting from the hospital, the design of which is always prepared chaotically, also implies the presence of a person with a camera, which will record everything that happens. This is an important part of the celebration, because such an event occurs in life only once. Of course, this is not about the very fact of a woman being in the maternity ward, but about her leaving it with a specific baby. The second time, the same child will not be born anymore, so photographing and shooting a video is necessary.
In the future, you can order a large elegant album "Meeting from the hospital", a photo in which it will be nice to see all family members in different years of life.
Unfortunately, the photographer is that part of the preparation of the holiday that is most often forgotten or simply considered not particularly important, believing that you can remove the event yourself. This is partly true, but in practice a similar approach results in one of the guests constantly having to step aside and take pictures, the rest often get phones for the same purpose. In this case, interesting live and full shots are never obtained, all relatively successful shots are staged and the guest who shoots them is constantly missing.
You can not neglect the services of photographers. But in the absence of free funds, you can always ask one of your acquaintances who like to do photography, or agree with novice masters in exchange for permission to use the shooting results in your own portfolio.
About the celebration
The meeting of the wife from the hospital ends with her arrival in a clean and decorated apartment for the celebration, where a table should already be set. A young mother should not strain, carry plates or wait for someone to bring a salad. Nor does she need to watch a mother or mother-in-law host in her kitchen. This does not give anyone positive emotions, which should be filled meeting from the hospital. At home, everything should be prepared in advance.
What exactly will be the table itself does not matter. You can arrange a buffet if space allows. Looks good themed decorated buffet. But, as a rule, they cover traditionally.
It is important not to exhibit large amounts of refreshments and not to be purchased by "bulk" alcohol. Alcohol should be present in symbolic volumes, literally a couple of glasses for each guest.
The feast can be revived by a couple of interesting and coinciding with the theme of the celebration triumph, for example, to collect notes from the guests with predictions or commitments.
A good ending would be a cake with a candle, on which all guests need to blow at the same time, while making good wishes to the baby. The meeting from the hospital, namely its drinking part, should not be delayed. After all, the woman was tired, she spent several days in the hospital, and long gatherings, albeit with dear people, on this day only tire.
After the guests leave, there is no need to start cleaning, you should visit and feed the baby together, and then quietly sit together. A movie beloved by both young parents is good for the background.
Prediction Collection
The meeting from the hospital, often smartly and brightly decorated, fades out after the first toast said at the table, turning into a simple eating of the displayed treats. To prevent this from happening, you can prepare entertainment appropriate for such a holiday.
To organize the collection of predictions, you will need a small format postcards and pens according to the number of guests. Waiting for a pen to pass can turn entertainment into a boring, boring commitment. You will also need a decorated large jar with a tight lid.
The bottom line is that each of the guests writes what the baby will be exactly in a year. Weight, height, habits - everything that it sees fit. The card must be signed.
Exactly one year later, everyone should be invited again, open a bank and read postcards. One of the guests who turned out to be closest to reality in their predictions will need to present a souvenir. For example, a mug with the inscription: "Uncle Bor from Vika, who turned one year old" or "The meeting from the hospital was a success."
To avoid embarrassment, parents should first read the predictions themselves, and if the can is sealed with a “seal”, then choose neutral inscriptions on souvenirs.
Collection of obligations
This is exactly the same entertainment as collecting predictions, with the only difference being that guests record their obligations.
You can record everything that somehow relates to the baby, and more precisely, to the celebration of his first anniversary. For example, you can write: “I, Granny Sonia, will give Vika a big elephant” or “I'll bring a delicious children's cake. Aunt Lisa. "
Postcards are also collected in a decorated jar and closed for a year. And on the child’s birthday, it will be necessary to read the obligations and present the souvenir to those guests who have fulfilled them.
About Cake
The meeting from the hospital, which ends with the removal of the cake and making wishes over it to the baby, always leaves the fondest memories.
However, the choice of this dessert, which serves as a point in the celebration, understandable even to those guests who are “sitting to victory,” must be approached responsibly.
When choosing a cake for such a holiday, one should focus not on its external design, although it is also important, but on the components of which the dessert is made. The fact is that young mothers who are in the period of lactation and plan not to transfer the baby to artificial food can eat not all.
And it is unlikely that the celebration will bring pleasure if a woman cannot eat a piece of cake and looks at how others do it. The same condition applies to the organization of the feast menu as a whole. That is, ideas for celebrating at the table should take into account the interests and opportunities of a young mother in the first place.
The dessert should not contain chemical dyes, a large number of preservatives and components that cause allergies. It's not about the allergy of the woman herself, but about the fact that her milk will contain an allergen.
Many try to avoid biscuits. This is completely unjustified, since the classic biscuit is completely safe for a young mother and child. But a jelly dessert filled with citrus or exotic fruits, eaten by a young mother, almost always leads to the appearance of an allergic rash on the baby's body.
The best option would be a biscuit cake from the confectionery shop of a local supermarket or directly from the factory with a shelf life of no more than three days, this indicates the absence of preservatives. You can buy dessert, originally intended for a children's holiday, in such products there are never dangerous or harmful components.
How to replace the cake
Recently, it has become fashionable to replace a common dessert with small cakes, elegant cupcakes and even cookies.
This can be an additional entertainment for guests. The idea is similar to the Asian “fortune cookie”. Of course, you don’t need to bake anything, you will need small, cupcake or cake-sized, disposable multi-colored paper plates.
On the inside, the one where the dessert itself is placed, a joking wish is written related to the theme of the holiday. For example, such: “Tomorrow you need to give Vika a big rattle”, “Leaving - pick up the garbage, Vika is worried” and the like.
This is quite fun and has a significant “household plus” - there will be less dirty dishes. This is important for young parents - both for a mother who is tired in the hospital, and for a father who, in principle, still does not understand which side to approach his baby.
Are there any restrictions for creativity
In celebration of the meeting from the maternity ward of the woman and the baby, there are no restrictions on imagination, other than observing safety measures, taking into account the preferences of the young mother and complying with medical requirements regarding nutrition.
A reasonable approach is also important. Newly-made fathers often do completely crazy things, such as:
- fireworks under the windows of the hospital;
- serenades performed by own or hired artists;
- a bed of pink petals;
- circle in the center of the city on a limousine drowning in flowers;
- the kid’s room, to the ceiling, stuffed with toys;
- a car tied with a large bow at the threshold of the compartment.
This is all certainly a wonderful manifestation of emotions filling my father’s soul, but such a creative is inappropriate and selfish. All such actions are inconvenient, not only to the woman herself, but also to others. A young mother should be met without unnecessary creativity, guided in the design and conduct of the holiday only by the interests and needs of the woman and the baby.