What to bring
What to bring
Here are a list of useful items you may want to consider bringing with you.
For Labor
- Vehicle with installed car seat
- Cover for the passenger seat if water breaks
- Driver’s license, insurance card, cash or credit card, and any hospital paperwork, list of medications, and birth plan
- Eyeglasses/contacts, bring case and solution, inhalers, any medical devices
- Slippers or slipper socks
- Relaxation tools: music/earbuds, body pillow, rice pack (hot or cold), squeeze ball, tennis ball, back massager, lotion, essential oils
- Chapstick, hair ties, headbands, gum or breath mints
- Toiletries: hair products, face and body soap, toothbrush/paste, etc.
- We will give baby’s first hat for the ride home
- Cell phone and charger
For Dad/Coach
- Personal contact list: who and when should be called?
- Camera, cell phone, and charger
- Toiletries, medical devices, inhalers, medications
- Comfortable shoes and clothing
- Change for vending machines and snacks
After delivery
- Bathrobe, comfortable clothes
- Additional socks for you
- Nursing bra or tanks
- Comfortable clothing and shoes to wear home (plan on clothes worn at 36 weeks)
- Babies going home outfit and blanket to place over baby once in car seat
Some items to have at home
- Peri pads, breast pads, breast soothes, lanolin cream
- Name, address, and phone number of pediatrician
- Vaseline if you have a boy for their circumcision