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