Last pregnancy I put together little "thank you" snack baskets for our nurses at the hospital filled with mostly healthy snacks like granola bars, oatmeal pouches, fruit, etc. & was generally happy with how they turned out.I absolutely love the concept of some kind of thank you for all the nurses so I knew I wanted to do something similar this time around too.
However, there were a few things I wanted to change/do better.
Last time I don't think I had actually finished assembling the baskets before I went into labor! I bought all the snacks + the baskets but everything was just in grocery sacks. I think a family member ended up assembling them - totally fine but this time I want to have them ready to go! Also, last time I forgot to make a sign ahead of time last time so at the hospital I had to quickly scribble a little note to go with the baskets so the nurses would know who they were from. This time, I'm gonna have a note ready to go as well.
Last pregnancy I had made two sets of snack baskets - one for our L&D nurses and one for the nurses on the recovery floor. Baylor is a big hospital so they totally separate these two areas. My intention had been to leave one basket w/ the L&D nurses and then one basket with the ones upstairs. Easy right?
Things I discovered:
1. Labor takes a long time. So we ended up going through 2+ shifts of nurses in each area (and even more on the recovery floor since we were there for 2-3 days!). What this meant is that when I dropped off a basket for the L&D nurses during the day, I realized that we'd totally missed the night shift nurses (unless of course their were still leftovers by then!). Who knows what ended up happening - I'm sure it was fine, but I remember being frustrated that the people I wanted to thank might actually end up missing out on the treat depending on their shift.
2. Timing of the delivery of gift matters! Like I kind of mentioned above, I delivered the baskets after Arden was born & by then all different nurses were on shift & because it was just a general basket of treats for everyone to share, I couldn't control which people actually saw the thank you! I remember walking to the nurses station on the recovery floor, handing over the snack basket, and realizing that I didn't recognize a single person working. This time around I'm going to keep the treats in our room so that we can tell nurses to take a treat while they're in our room.
I know, I'm over-thinking this.
But trust me, this is actually really fun for me.
So this time I knew I wanted to do some kind of food/snack treat again because 1. who doesn't like food? But really because 2. I think consumables are an easy generic treat (as opposed to chapstick or soap or something specific like that).
I searched around Pinterest, combined a few ideas, went shopping, did some crafting, and came up with this:
Reeses Pieces & Peanut M&Ms!
With very punny little tags, of course!
Last time I had done snack-sized treats since they were part of a bigger basket & everyone was just helping themselves.
This time I went for full-sized candy bars since theoretically people will just be taking one (or one of each!)
This time I'll prooobably be taking the cute little basket (thank you Target!) home with me instead of leaving it behind.
And I definitely won't be sad if there are candy leftovers, ha!
Tag printables found here (TY!)
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