The hospital will send normal sized portions of liquids. It will be up to you to regulate how much you consume. Please follow the 4 x 4 rule after your surgery. Start off with 1 ounce of liquid sipped slowly over 1 hour. This means that you should sip the fluid throughout the entire hour. This does not mean that you should gulp the entire one ounce and then wait another hour to try again. As tolerated, fluids will be increased in 1 ounce increments every 4 hours to a goal rate of 4 ounces per hour while awake.