I didnt get my new mums bounty bag.

I was not given a new mothers bounty bag in the hospital. :(
I asked the maternal child health nurse when I saw her last week for one and she said I should have got it from the hospital.
Is there anyway I can get one now that Im home from the hospital? Baby is 2.5 weeks old. Do other places supply them if you ask for one (ie. pharmacy, target??)
And what is in it? Is it worth me trying to get one? If it is mostly just advertising then its probably not worth it...but I know some people over the years have recieved really cool things in theirs.

I didn't get any bounty bags at all this time round.

I got mine from my obstitrician on confirmation of my pregnanacy. It had mainly advertising stuff. The only things I kept were a nappy, some butt cream and some coco butter. The rest got put in the bin. Not terribly exciting.
L.B.

I didn't get one with DS2 either - the cheapskates! I'd hate to be one of the companies paying big bucks to be in it!

Call your hospital, I'm sure they would give you one if you popped in :)

ETA - It should have a voucher in it so you can claim a third bounty bag from Target.

They ran out when I had DS, and the hospital wouldn't give me one when a friend asked for me (she had her baby a few days after). It has a few samples in, but mainly heaps of flyers and advertising crap. the samples are good for your nappy bag if you are inclined to use them.
However, someone gave me a number I could call and get the Target bag. Can't remember who it was though...sorry

Hi,
I didn't one at the hospital either :( I don't think they do them anymore.

A lot of the franchise chemists- Terry White in particular- have them.

I didn't get one with my4th bub, but I'd already gotten three with the older ones, so I wasn't fussed cause you're not really missing out on much.

Not terribely exciting... probably the magazines were the only intersting things, the rest were fairly pointless and are sitting in the cupboard waiting to be thrown out. I use the nappy cream samples too but thats about it...

My bub is 3mths and we just got info about centrelink, births deaths and marriages, medicare, brochure's from the hospital about breastfeeding, stitches and pelvic floor exercises and a dvd from Raising Children's Network which is pretty good, Dave hughes narrates it and I found it good to watch cause it was my first bub and the relationships part was relevent to DH and I in the early weeks when we were finding our feet. Not sure if you can get it outside of the hospital, won't the hospital give you one? Did you get a blue book?

I left to early to collect mine...lol

They are only full of junky mags and advertising....but i have heard they have boxes of condoms in them now...is that a hint for mums??? LOL

Some hospitals dont give them out at all. The hospital I went to doesnt do them at all, even if you ask, because they dont even have any to give out.

You can get them from target though! Mine was mainly advertising and a few little sachets of stuff like bum cream, sun cream, a nappy etc

Google Bounty bags and there is a list of pharmacys that have them, if u are really deseperate you can order online and pay but NOT WORTH IT!!!

you cant get the target one without the 2nd one

Mine was full of junk so not worth worrying about I don't think.

If you go to the Bounty Bags website it lists all the chemists that have them. Then you just go into the chemist and ask for one, tell them you didnt get one at hospital and theyll just give you one for free. Otherwise you can order them on that website for free also, you just have to pay the shipping costs.
The one good thing in them is the free pixi photos. Its a free sitting for bubs every 6 months and with that free sitting you get a 10 x 13 shot for nothing. So its well worth getting.

I got one when I went to the hospital in the early stages of pregnancy (private hospital)
I didn't get one though after giving birth..however the private hospital gave us a whole lot of stuff...creams, cotton wool, a big bag of huggies, shampoo's. I guess after paying all that money its the least they can do

I didn't get anything this time around :) Last 2 I did though. It was just crap anyways, cream samples, lots of advertising, a nappy and a bottle teat from memory.

I didn`t get them for DS2 as the hospital said they were a baby friendly hospital so don`t hand out bounty bags, whatever that means!!!!!

With this pregnancy I received the 2 bags at my first OB`s appointment, not much in them just a lot of junk really.

The midwife I saw at 20 weeks said that they no longer hand them out in NSW hospitals. I agree with the other girls though.. they werent very interesting just a load of advertising and mostly useless samples. Was kinda nice to get something for nothing though... Sorry you missed out!!!

Deejoy "baby friendly" means they promote bonding and BFing and thus don't give out free samples of formula, adverts for them or discounts for them.

I didn't get a Bounty pack until DD was 4 weeks old, i was a homebirth and the midwife asked did i want her to bring me one and i declined, but my Health Visitor spotted that i'd not got one and brought it. It had a LOT of advertising (like a phonebook thickness wad of leaflets with AT BEST coupons attached with 10p off this or 30p off that). There were lots of leaflets for money off various brands of formula (i was BFing), a sample of organic formula, nappy cream i would never use (due to ingredients), washing powder i couldn't use (due to allergies), a nappy i didn't use (i was using MCN's) and single muslin spit-rag "branded" to the washing powder company- that was the only useful item, though i'd already bought 12 muslin cloths myself! It also had 2 parenting magazines which were incredibly mainstream and one of which listed all the reasons why first time mums like me should be prevented from choosing homebirth (right after i'd had one!).

It really depends on the sort of person you are as to whether you'll love it or not, but if you feel you've missed out you should just grab one at the pharmacy or order one- it's how a billion companies advertise, they're DESPERATE to give them out!

Bx

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Deejoy "baby friendly" means they promote bonding and BFing and thus don't give out free samples of formula, adverts for them or discounts for them.

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Bx I *think* from memory it's illegal in Australia to give out free samples of formula, adevrtise them or give discount vouchers for them (although that doesn't apply to toddler formula, only infant). I don't recall getting any of those in mine (but that was back when I was still in the fog). So I was curious about the 'baby friendly' thing too.

ETA- Oops, never mind. Just reread the last page and missymoo said she got a bottle teat in hers, so that might be it...

they actually vary hospital to hospital at least in victoria.

The hospitals get a choice of what goes in them, eg 2 years ago some had family block of cadbury choclate!!! was taken out after a few months as too many bags were being "used" as staff were opening and eating.

the one i got had a HUGE packet of jj wipes