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What do I need to take to hospital for the birth of LTR2?
Wife?
Or partner if not married (shouldn't have made that assumption)
Phone chargers (one each)
Food/drink
Nappies/changing stuff for baby
Clothes for baby
Spare clothes for mum
Shorts and t shirt for dad (the birthing centre/ward will likely be as hot as hell from my past experience)
Camera
Music (or thing for playing music)
Tenna pants
Car seat for baby (can probably leave that one in the car)
Number 2?
If anything like ours it will fall out within a few minutes of arriving and you’ll be home in a couple of hours. No need for a bag full of crap.
YMMV
Cash for parking, although you might not be there long.
20 fags and a hip flask, and whatever you might need.
I thought this was going to be about a new giving birth fashion. Don’t get too complacent, number two might require a Caesarian, biginge gave a good list.
Quality snacks/food. Giving birth is hard and hospital food isn't always great. Think about what you'd want to eat to recover from a marathon. Fresh juice, fruit, strawberry milk, nuts, Starbucks posh iced coffee in a can!
Then, don't stress it. As long as you've got a car seat and clothes for the baby/mum, you're good. Spare t shirt for you in the car if you're there for a longer time. Phone charger always useful.
Both mine where c sections for mum. In for 4 and 3 days. I just nipped home/shop for stuff as needed. You'll be good.
(oh, yeah, and one of those Men In Black memory erasers in case you witness the mucus plug exiting)
Has no one told you that after the first, you stop giving a sh1t and just wing it?
Oddly enough I seem to remember taking a plastic bucket (for her to sit on if required) and a Brixton briefcase. I wanted to choose the first bit of music the child heard.
With the virus restrictions it is possible that she may need to spend the night in there whilst in early labour with you not being permitted in to the building. Depending on how far away the hospital is from home you might want to hang around in the hospital car park in case her situation changes.
This happened to us a couple of months ago at peak lockdown when everything for food /drink/ hanging about nearby to the hospital was closed and I was glad that I took a sleeping mat, sleeping bag, pillows and food /stove for the back of my car.
There were quite a few people camping out overnight in the car parks.
Best thing we could have taken would have been a hammer to break down the hospital door.
Spent a good few minutes banging on the door at around 3am trying to get the security guard to open up. In the end there were six minutes time difference between the car park ticket stamp and the official time of birth.
Couldn't have cut it finer
An envelope full of 'the's to hand out. People seem to forget them when there is a new baby to talk about.
Think about what you’d want to eat to recover from a marathon. Fresh juice, fruit, strawberry milk, nuts, Starbucks posh iced coffee in a can!
Sod that. Post marathon food is chippy, pizza and burgers and coffee and beer.
All of them at once.
Just stop off on the way for freshness.
A longer cable for your phone charger can be very useful.
A get well soon card, and details of where you will meet her in 20 years time once said sprog has left home?
Ear plugs and a blindfold.
The notes or book whatever that was called
food, drink, music, LED tea lights, something to put the baby in, travel cushion in case its drawn out, saves neck ache.
Don't do what I did and have the fuel warning light on in the car. Mrs IRC got bit grumpy when I needed to stop for petrol on the way to the hospital.
I'd ask someone who's done it all before. Oh, wait...
After what mini S no 2's amniotic fluid did to my sambas I'd add wellies to the list
Baby gloves ours scratched his face to bits first night,other than that all good advice aleady given, keep the car topped up with fuel.