The Ultimate Checklist For Your Hospital/Maternity Bag 

    Being a parent is such a blessed feeling that one can ever cherish in a lifetime. It’s a phenomenal moment where your life takes a beautiful turn. Knowing a child growing inside your womb fills oneself with emotions and excitement. But what if you find out that you are unprepared? There’s a lot of planning involved to smoothly conduct the delivery process. But that one-day planning requires a lot of consideration and thought.

Are you concerned about the most important day of your life? Getting your delivery done in the hospital, and worried about not being able to make it on time? Do not worry, here we present some of the most important lists of items that you need to have during an emergency in your emergency birth kit. 

Along with the attached emotions and excitement, there are a lot of responsibilities attached to it.  Taking this into consideration the following checklist will be of great help to you during the time of your delivery. All these things are essential for you at the time of childbirth as well as for the child after birth and many other items are necessities for Delivery Day.

Hospital Bag Checklist For Labour And Delivery

 

The day of the delivery is the most important to make it smooth and to make it stable. Do not forget all the essential things to be packed along with you during the time of Delivery Day preparation.

Organizing a maternity bag can be a laborious task. Especially for new mothers, who not only start from where but also don’t know what to prepare. As long as the strategy is well set, it will be very easy to organize.

It is an essential task to prepare a maternity bag before the time of delivery. Always prepare a baby preparation day checklist. This will make you remember to consider things while packing the maternity bag. Make sure what are the things that you need to buy and what is available with you and then start preparing.

Maternity Bag For You:

 

• All the reports of medical history should be packed in the hospital bag. Whether the reports are of the present or the past should be c along for better clarification or to avoid any complication.
• Extra pair of comfortable clothes for the time of delivery and even after and make sure to carry flexible/comfortable clothes.
• Adult diapers in case the mother needs before or after the delivery of the child to avoid the mess or any kind of uncertainties.
• Lightweight dressing gown for a mother to make her comfortable.
• Nursing pad to keep the breast soft in case you are planning for breastfeeding. 
• Breastfeeding accessories to feed the child. In case you are planning to breastfeed the child in this situation it is necessary to have one. 
• Comfortable pillows to keep yourself relaxed Many of the times the pillow provided by the hospital may not be so comfortable or sometimes even scratchy so you should carry your own. 
• Carry several packs of underwater, disposable underwear and maternal pads as you will be needing them frequently to avoid messiness and to maintain your hygiene at times as such.
• Toiletries must carry all the things like your own toothbrush, soap, face wash, etc.

Hospital Bag Things Required For Your Child:

• Comfortable clothes for a newly born are very essential considering the safety of the child as the clothes of a baby suit may or may not be available at the hospital.
• Set of diapers or clean clothes for the child in case the hospital won’t provide anything as such. 
• Wipes for baby to clean and maintenance of hygiene of the child. 
• Soft towels to clean and for other purposes as the towels that the hospital may provide would not be suitable or hygienic for the newly born.
• Soft blanket to keep the infant warm and safe, and keep a check on weather while bringing clothes for the newborn.
• Baby cream for preventing the child from any kind of rashes.
• Feeding bottles to feed the child.

Things Required For Your Partner:

Only the mother doesn’t need to have to look after the things necessary to carry before the delivery, but the birth partner equally has to consider it.

• Don’t forget to pack some snacks and drinking water, or any of the regular medicines. You never know what comes at the time of delivery, and the mother might feel hungry or thirsty for a time as such you can be prepared. 
• You can carry a camera or phone to click the most valuable moment of your life, and cherish it for a lifetime.
• Carry a pillow as not only the patient but also the person who is taking care of the mother needs rest. 

The Right Time To Pack Your Maternity Bag

The right time to pack your maternity bag is one month before the planned delivery date so that no urgency occurs in the time of emergency. It is better to be prepared beforehand.

Takeaway Points

When finally packing the maternity bag, start by classifying items, classify the newborn’s and mother’s clothes, and pack them according to their different uses. Regarding the preparation time of the maternity bag, it is neither too early nor too late. It is appropriate to start your preparation by the 7th month of pregnancy, leaving enough time to avoid missing any items for the baby and the mommy. The maternity bag should be placed in a conspicuous and easy-to-handle place. Being a parent is a great responsibility so one has to be very careful, calm, and composed while handling all these things properly.