First thing to do would be to check what your birthing hospital provides. Where we birthed had lovely soft toilet paper, provided all nappies and wondersuits, blankets etc for baby, we just needed a take home outfit and wrap. The hospital also provided heat packs for mum & nipple cream in the bounty bag. I took loads of stuff, way more than most people I'd say as we even took an egg shell overlay mattress to go over the hospital bed!!! LOL Yeah we are pretty soft and like to be comfy dh said that if we were paying thousands of dollars to birth in a private hospital then he's taking whatever he likes to make sure his beautiful wife and new baby are comfortable. Far out it was worth it though, we had a family size bed (2 singles joined together) and the side with the extra mattress was heaven. We also took our pillows which was priceless as dh stayed the whole 4 nights with me in the family room. If I were to be packing another bag I would take the mattress & pillows again, 2 x trackies, 2 x regular singlets, you can just lift them up for feeding. A cardigan, nickers, basic toiletries (one pack of pads would have been enough for me but I didn't have any stitches) and a blow up kick board to lean on in the bath plus my MP3 player and some snacks if there's time to eat them, my labor with DS was only 3.2hrs. I would also take a co-sleeper in next time. The hospital let us co-sleep with ds from birth but I would have preferred that we had our own co-sleeper to put between dh and I.
Just noticed this is an old thread... but still valid non the less charlotte did you do the almond oil thing, that was a good idea.
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dh said that if we were paying thousands of dollars to birth in a private hospital then he's taking whatever he likes to make sure his beautiful wife and new baby are comfortable. Far out it was worth it though, we had a family size bed (2 singles joined together) and the side with the extra mattress was heaven. We also took our pillows which was priceless as dh stayed the whole 4 nights with me in the family room. If I were to be packing another bag I would take the mattress & pillows again, 2 x trackies, 2 x regular singlets, you can just lift them up for feeding. A cardigan, nickers, basic toiletries (one pack of pads would have been enough for me but I didn't have any stitches) and a blow up kick board to lean on in the bath plus my MP3 player and some snacks if there's time to eat them, my labor with DS was only 3.2hrs. I would also take a co-sleeper in next time. The hospital let us co-sleep with ds from birth but I would have preferred that we had our own co-sleeper to put between dh and I.
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