Mom reveals she was gifted a $200 Chanel goodie bag from an NYC hospital after giving birth | Daily Mail Online
Many moms have expressed their envy, saying they got nothing
She received a Chanel gift bag both times she gave birth at the hospital
A mom has revealed that she got two bundles of joy at a New York hospital after receiving a Chanel goodie bag along with her newborn.
Sophia, who uses the handle @manhattan_mama on TikTok, uploaded a video detailing the stash of luxury goodies she received after giving birth at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
With both the birth of her son and daughter, Sophia reveals she got a cloth Chanel bag containing a $90 bottle of Chanel Gabrielle perfume, a $45 Le Rouge Duo Ultra Tenue lipstick and a $38 Le Volume de Chanel mascara. There was also a note of congratulations from the designer fashion house.
In the clip, which has since been viewed more than three million times, the 42-year-old explains that she just discovered the gift set when clearing out her closet, some three years later, and was surprised that the products were full-size and not miniatures.
Sophia, who uses the handle @manhattan_mama on TikTok, uploaded a video detailing the stash of luxury goodies she received after giving birth at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital
The Chanel bag contained a number of items including a $90 bottle of Chanel Gabrielle perfume and a note of congratulations from the designer fashion house
What’s in New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Chanel goodie bag?
As part of a partnership struck in 2004, which included an endowment of $1.5 million from Chanel to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, all women who give birth at the facility are given a haul of Chanel beauty products. The new-mom Chanel gift bag contains:
- A bottle of Chanel Gabrielle perfume – $90
- A Le Rouge Duo Ultra Tenue lipstick – $45
- A Le Volume de Chanel mascara – $38
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When asked by viewers why she neglected such an extravagant gift, the New Yorker explains in a follow up video that she forgot about the goodie bag because ‘this kind of stuff is not important to me’.
She also points out that she didn’t get it because she was in a private, upscale hospital and it is a location accessible to all.
While giving birth at New York-Presbyterian Hospital costs around $37,000 according to Turquoise Health – almost double the average price in America – Sophia said she used her health insurance to cover the costs of pregnancy, delivery and postpartum care.
‘I’m just a person that used my health insurance and gave birth. It wasn’t like a private room thing,’ she tells viewers.
Commenting on the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of her first goodie bag which she got when she gave birth to her daughter, now aged five, Sophia said she gifted it to the superintendent at her old apartment so he could give it to his wife.
The mom-of-two’s original video quickly went viral, with many women expressing their envy.
Creator @Courtney exclaimed: ‘I would absolutely love it! My hospital doesn’t give anything at all!’
The mom-of-two revealed that the bag also contains a full-size mascara and lipstick
While @TaraGrahovac mused: ‘All I got was a baby… I guess that’s ok.’
Other moms revealed that they had received small gifts from their hospitals but nothing quite as grand.
Creator @astuckey13 from Missouri got to keep her water cup complete with ‘a handle and crinkly straw’, while @Zenobia3369 was given a thermometer.
After her TikToks caused such a furor Sophia, who works as a nurse herself, said she had decided to gift the contents of the bag to another TikToker for her hilarious comment (‘I’d forget my baby at the hospital before I’d forget to open a Chanel gift bag’) but she would keep the bag itself as a memento and use it to store other trinkets from her children’s birth.
Many viewers applauded her for being so ‘kind’ and ‘sweet’.
As part of a partnership struck in 2004, which included an endowment of $1.5 million from Chanel to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, all women who give birth at the facility are given a haul of Chanel beauty products.
After discovering this perk via Sophia’s video, TikToker @mdoll said: ‘Guess I’m having a baby in New York.’
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