hospital bag hints

I'm liking the list, Toni... liking it.  Here's mine - feel free to comment from your experience, peoples, if there's things I've left out or just really won't need.  Feel free to pilfer the list too if anyone is as anal-retentive as me about these things like lists and packing!  He he. 

Pack for hospital/birth:

11 dark cotton undies

3 nursing bras

3 pr jammie-jims with buttoned tops

slippers & socks

gigantic short nightie to labour in, and socks (mmm, sexy look!)

dressing gown

clothes to leave in (Lord knows what I'll fit by then... no idea!)

disposable breast pads

2 packs maternity sanitary pads

nipple cream

2 hotties

toiletries, lip balm and makeup (for feeling human again when going home)

disposable camera (in case we forget the digital one)

2 magazines & some CD's, & a pen

water bottle

sweets for labour

meusli bars for later

announcement contact list (for hubby to do all the ringing around!)

plastic bags for dirty laundry

 
Pack in baby’s bag: 

Disposable nappies

Baby wipes & muslin cloths

Barrier cream

Baby powder

Cotton balls

Baby cotton buds

Baby body wash

5 newborn undergarment one-alls, clothes for 3 days, scratch mittens

thin blankie for breastfeeding (modesty!  I mean, I don't know who'll visit)

4 dribble bibs

sml bag to put toiletries into

When I had Andrew (this is 2 years ago now) at the Palmy hospital they provided:

• Cloth Nappies
• Clothes for baby (size "0") so quite big, but they cleaned the messes up
• Nighties for mum - godsend I loved them so much, with little breast feeding holes already in them.
• Pads (10 pack of Maternity size), I was luck and got 2 packs
• All linen for baby and mum including towels and face cloths
• In the shower they had the "generic" hand/body wash to use as well
• Baby wash for babies for babies first bath (top to toe)

When we had to put Andrew on the bili-bed they provided the disposible nappies as thats all they were allowed to wear on them. Also in the Palmy hopsital it was one shower and toilet between 2 woman unless you were lucky enough to get one of the end rooms where it was just yours. 

Andie, in the ward in Palmy, they can adjust the temp in your room to your liking as they are controled by each roomnot by the whole ward. I had my room like a freezer while I was pregnant and in the ward as I was just so hot - due to still being pregnant. The hospital midwifes kept changing the temp in my room and then I would get angry and go "hello still an incubator I need it cold" they soon got the point.