We had our first in a birth centre and I'm pretty sure we were told just to use water. I already knew that so I don't remember exactly what we were told by the hospital. We weren't given a bounty bag though- I got one at my booking in appointment and that was the only one I received. Can't remember what was in it. We certainly never saw a single branded product while at the hospital.

We only stayed at the birth centre for one night so we didn't bath our son there but we were given cloth nappies and cotton pads to wet to use as wipes so I remember we were told wipes are bad. We had midwives come visit us at home after discharging and they told us not to use baby products too. I remember my son's skin was really flaky and we were told we could use olive oil or sorbolene.