Preparations For Delivery | Dr N Layyous

Preparations For Delivery - How to prepare your Delivery bag

• After a while you will have the chance to meet your baby, so how would you prepare for this day:

1. Put a plan in cases of emergency:
   • Your husband’s mobile.
   • The hospital phone.
   • Your relative’s phone.
   • The phone of the person who will help you during your stay in the hospital and afterwards.
   • Police emergency phone.
2. Arrange someone to help you after discharge and take care of your house and mail while you are in the hospital.
3. Be sure that you have the proper hospital address.
4. Arrange how you will be transported to the hospital in case your family are away.
5. Make a list for your husband to follow when you are in the hospital, admission, paying bills etc.
6. Take with you shower gel, hair shampoo.

Before you go to the hospital:

1. Take a warm bath.
2. Shave your pubic hair.
3. Remove any Jewelry.
4. Don’t forget your obstetric card.
5. Empty the bladder, and have rectal enema.
6. Prepare your bag that you will carry to the hospital, once you are in the 8th month, and tell the family about its place.

Suggestion for the delivery bag:

1. Identification card, insurance card, Family document.
2. Your delivery plan.
3. Your glasses if you wear once.
4. Tooth brush and tooth paste.
5. Lipstick.
6. Deodorant.
7. Hair brush.
8. Your makeup tools.
9. Hair clip.
10. Hair shampoo, body shampoo, body lotion, (some hospital provides these material, but you may prefer to bring your own shampoo).
11. Hair dryer, your own towel.
12. Bathrobe, night gown (try to bring a pajama that makes it easy for you to lactate your baby), slippers, socks, underwear, breastfeeding bra and sanitary napkins.
13. Nipples balm.
14. Wet napkin.
15. Anything that helps you to relax as your own pillow, music, books.
16. Going home clothes and its shoes.
17. Camera and its batteries (be sure it is fully charged in order to record the first moment in your child's life.
18. A phone number list of your friends and family, who you want to inform them that you gave birth.
19. A bottle of water so that you can drink small amount of water during labour.
20. High calorie foods as bananas, chocolate and biscuits in order to eat after delivery.

Baby's bag:

1. 3 pajamas hat and socks.
2. Going home clothes.
3. Car seat.
4. Diaper.
5. Nail scissor in order not to hurt himself.

You also should bring some stuff for your husband, if he will stay with you in the hospital:

1. Shaving tools, shampoo, soap, bathrobe.
2. Snacks.
3. Books.
4. Money.

Wish you and your baby a happy wonderful experience.

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Consultant Obstetrician, Gynecologist and Infertility Specialist