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I don't think I'd bother with hair or make-up if I was in hospital, generally I like to make an effort (though my hair is getting on my last nerve right now), but I don't think I'd bother if I was going to be sitting in a hospital bed all day. When I fell down the stairs last year and had to go and get x-rayed I didn't put any make-up on, I figure if there is one place you can get away with looking particularly rough it's going to be the hospital.

I had a nurse or nurse's aide that would put a hospital issued bath robe over the back of my hospital gown to give me some privacy/decency while using the loo. For being a young guy, he was as gentlemanly as possible for that job. That was the time that my appendix decided to make me miss the Super Bowl party (& game).

Wow, PJs and slippers! That must be nice. I didn't get to wear slippers, but they are obsessive about these super cheap socks with slip-resistant treads on the bottom. I found out later that some hospitals assess their nurses' job performance partly on whether all the patients on the ward are wearing these, and if someone falls, there's a ton of paperwork and blame for everyone. So, even if you take the darn things off to try to sleep, you'll wake up to a nurse or patient care tech putting a new pair on you. You really haven't lived until you've tried to wobble your way across a room to use the bathroom hauling an IV pole and holding the back of a gown closed.

Most people I know that are of an age to be doing this sort of thing do engagement, wedding, maternity, and first photo. Gender reveal is often done by the person throwing you the gender reveal party, or some other family member who owns an SLR. The hardcore types do the actual birth ones, and those are always pro photogs. A couple of years ago, I was browsing Pinterest, and for some unfathomable reason it kept suggesting maternity pins to me. One of them was a pattern to sew your own hospital gown. No kidding, it produced a shapeless, backless gown that tied back there and exposed your bum and everything. I mean, seriously, why would I invest time in sewing a garment that the hospital buys by the truckload and that makes me look fat and feel ill? Either let me wear my own PJs, or hand me one of the standard issue ones off the stack.

I just had this come up. The fact Google Translate thinks this is Polish is hilarious.