Baby Lane's Birth Bag:
- Neutral outfits/sleepers (I ended up packing 6 because I had 3 day hospital stays with all of my children and although I plan to birth outside of a hospital this time, I still want to be prepared for any extended stays or surprises.)
- Hair bows to match the neutral outfits (in case the baby is a girl)
- White socks
- White mittens
- Pink sleeper
- Pink hospital hat with baby girl name on it
- Blue sleeper
- Blue hospital hat with baby boy name on it
- Rainbow outfit with personalized bibs for both sexes (the big siblings have shirts to match this outfit)
- Mint and grey coming home outfit with personalized bibs for both sexes
- Neutral burp rags
- Girly muslin swaddle blanket
- Neutral muslin swaddle blanket
- Travel sized baby lotion, soap, diaper cream, nail clippers, ect
- Baby medicine such as Tylenol, gas drops, gripe water, ect
- Baby wipes and neutral cloth diapers (Hospitals provide diapers and wipes but we are birthing at a birth center and using cloth diapers so our situation is different than most. I do plan to bring some disposable diapers just in case the baby is too small for newborn cloth diapers though. I'll also bring more cloth than what is pictured. I was in the process of washing most of the newborn diapers that we have when I packed.)
- A wet bag for dirty cloth diapers (Mine were also in the wash so they aren't pictured)
*For those of you who know your baby's gender the list would still stay similar. You'd just pack all gender specific items.
Note that I didn't pack pacifiers because I'm not planning to introduce one until we've established a solid nursing routine. If you'd like to give your baby a pacifier the hospital does provide some but you may want to pack your own as well.
This is what I packed of the things that I had which would be plenty in itself but my mom is also bringing things to the birth. As most of you know, she has been purchasing gender specific stuff for me. I've been sending her the links to everything that I want for each gender and she gets the right stuff. (She's the only person besides the ultrasound tech who knows the baby's sex.) All in all I'll have a ton of stuff there but most of it won't be used right away. A lot of it is things that my mom got us for the baby's first month of life and for newborn pictures. She is planning to go to our house after the baby is born to put away what I don't want to keep at the birth center. She's also going to paint the nursery and set up the bedding before we get back home.
These are some of the items that she's bringing to the birth (most were purchased from etsy):
- Swaddle blanket with the baby's name on it and the matching bow/hat
- Newborn bows (if it's a girl)
- Newborn hats (if it's a boy)
- Gender specific gowns with matching bows/hats
- Gender specific receiving blankets
- Gender specific nursing pillow
- Boy car seat cover (I bought myself a floral nursing cover that I just loved the pattern of. It's also a car seat cover and a cart cover so I'll be using it for the car seat if I have a girl. I wanted a boyish one for the car seat if I have a boy though.)
She's also ordered newborn props, a custom blanket for monthly pictures, baby bedding, and a lot of personalized stuff such as blankets, onesies, hats, ect. I'm so glad that she knows the sex and can hook us up this way without ruining the surprise. I will definitely be doing it this way again if/when we have baby #5.
Soon I'm going to pack Brian and I's birth bags as well as the kids over night bags. I'll do another post about what's in those bags once I'm done. My plan is to have Brian install the car seat and put all of our bags in to the car around the first week of June.