Lovely women, put on the pope and relatives part of the responsibility for the first appearance of a child in the house. After all, it's their particle, the blood, let them feel the closeness to the child and from the first days of his life will bear the joys and burden of it.
What things to take to the hospital?
The first group - documents
- Referral to the hospital or contract with the hospital, or contract with your personal doctor. A personal doctor needs to sign a contract no later than 35 or 36 weeks, and the earlier this is done, the better. With the doctor you need to discuss all the exciting topics in advance.
And what else you need to take with you to the hospital, except the necessary things to feel comfortable? From the experience with women who have given birth, (during consultations for caring for the baby, for massage, for school moms), we sincerely advise you, give birth on the basis of a contract with a personal doctor. If you, of course, are not going to give birth at home with a personal midwife.
- A completed exchange card with the necessary tests
- Passport
- Two AIDS tests
- Results of ultrasound
- Insurance policy
- Doctor's phone number, maternity home address
- Find out how you will keep in touch. It is necessary to stock up the phone, tokens, coins.
The second group - what things you need to take to the hospital
- a nightgown or a warm, spacious, elongated T-shirt
- warm or cotton socks, only not woolen
- washable sneakers
- drink after birth - mineral water without gases or herbal special tea for childbirth. It is convenient to take it in a thermos. If the hospital allows, you can take light food with you
- Take cribs, you wrote them in practical classes. They will charge you with new forces, warm, give confidence to you, raise your spirits, even if you do not use them.
- Facial wipes, they are useful to wipe the sweat from your face, a water-soaked napkin can be applied to the lips, to the forehead
- terry towel
- if allowed in the hospital can take a player, tapes with rhythmic pleasant music.
The third group - these things will be needed after childbirth
- after delivery, you will need a light robe or a shirt with fasteners in front. Usually in the ward, where the mother lies with the baby, it can be warm
- hygienic supplies: soap, nourishing cream, comb, toilet paper, toothpaste, toothbrush
- for the first days hygienic gaskets with high hygroscopicity. In the following days you can use a breathable gasket, but not so thick (2 or 3 packs)
- Setochka - disposable panties. These are hygienic special panties, the body breathes freely in them, they are light, which is especially important in the first days after childbirth. You can use panties made from thin cotton with large holes for ventilation, but you can do with one diaper
- You may need replaceable breast pads that will absorb milk, if weak nipples. Maybe you need a collection of milk, it's such a plastic shell that will retain the flowing milk and allow you to keep the nipples dry. The sink should be thoroughly washed and prepared in advance.
- If the nipples of the mother are drawn, prepare the overlays-sombrero. Sombrero is placed on the nipple, and the child can suck the breast through the hole in the patch. Before using it, it is necessary to wash it well. When feeding the lining hold the hand
- a cream for the nipples, which relieves pain with abrasions and cracks
- Nourishing cream for hands and face
- two bras for feeding with a fastener in front
- sterile gauze wipes
- herbal laxative or purgative candles on glycerin basis, an enema may be needed
- cotton socks
- polyethylene bags for dirty laundry
Read the list of products that can be brought to the hospital. Remember the rules of nutrition during breastfeeding. Here you need to consider what season in the yard - winter, autumn, summer, spring. And tell this to your husband or someone who will come to the hospital. The first 2 or 3 months after birth, be careful of the products if you are breastfeeding.
The fourth group is a dowry of a baby in the hospital
The child needs clothes. Specify what to bring to the chosen maternity home for child care. What you need to prepare the baby for an extract when you go home.
To care for the baby is usually asked to bring diapers, and not diapers. Do not buy a lot. When choosing diapers you need to take into account their quality, the material from which the diapers are made, the baby's skin reaction to the material, weight, sex of the baby. You should start with a small party. Look, they like your baby or not, how he reacts to them.
In many respects depends, what clothes you will put on the child. In the hospital they put on a thin and thick undergarment, cap, diaper, and wrap the baby in diapers. Linen needs to be changed every day, and maybe more than once. In some maternity hospitals, they are allowed to wear adult clothes: a shirt, a cap, a light suit, a diaper and do not swaddle. If desired, put on gloves.
We can warn you, they will offer to feed the baby from the bottle in the maternity hospital. Take this seriously and seriously. As practice shows, if you feed a solution of glucose, mixtures, and water with boiled water, this increases the risk that the child can be infected.
The use of milk formulas immediately after birth can lead to allergic reactions, to diathesis, to the development of dysbacteriosis. When sucking on the maternal breast, the muscles of the tongue are involved, and when sucking from the nipple, the child's cheeks muscles work. If a child early acquainted with a bottle - sucking from the nipple, then it forms the wrong way to suck.
Because of this, babies early give up breast, they have poorly developed muscles of the tongue, often there are problems with speech. From this, the mother may lose lactation. And if they offer to supplement the baby, you can also categorically refuse to supplement the baby.
The fifth group - things that are necessary at discharge
Write out all over the host. Sometimes give gifts - cosmetics, a set of diapers, a set of diapers. Also give out a bunch of flyers, where to buy, when and how much. If necessary, you must prepare clothes in advance, in which you will be discharged and clothes for the baby. Consider weather conditions.
When you go home, put on a baby diaper. Decide what you put on your child, a T-shirt or a light warm overalls or a warm and thin pajamas. Usually a child is put on a sweatshirt, and then wrapped in a baby, in a thin and thick diaper.
-total socks
- Put on a light kerchief, instead of a cap. And on top of the kerchiefs put on a hat on the weather.
An important item to be taken to the maternity hospital as an outer clothing is a blanket, it can be warm or light, depending on the weather, tapes and nook. You can do without a blanket. Over a light overall they put on a warm blouse, woolen socks, panties and put the child in an envelope. Take into account the season. The envelope can be warm or light.
Just in case, a gauze cloth or a handkerchief
Exchange card for the child, for yourself, you need to make a copy.
Help in the registry office to register a child.
Sheet with the conclusion and recommendations about the health of the child. Specify, what procedures were conducted, what preparations were administered to the baby. Inform in a children's polyclinic that a child was born and invite home a visiting patronage sister.
Flowers for mom, taxi for mom and newborn. For the Pope affectionate smile. Rattle for the baby.
At home, dinner by candlelight, elegant clothes, not a robe. After all, this is your holiday, my mother does not pour more than 30 grams. And only for you and your family, even for an hour a holiday. Knowing what things you need to take with you to the hospital, you can prepare the necessary things for the maternity home. And also prepare things for discharge from the hospital with the child. And later after a while you can call grandfathers, grandmothers, relatives and acquaintances, get acquainted with a new member of your family.