What To Pack For Your Hospital Stay

  • Your personal record chart – please remove all scan pictures from chart as your folder is retained by the Hospital and scan pictures can not be retrieved.

  • PPS number and Health Insurance Information

For Mum

  • Slippers

  • Socks

  • Lightweight dressing gown

  • Night dresses/Pyjamas with wide openings for easy skin to skin contact and breastfeeding

  • Comfortable clothes to go home in and wide fitting foot wear for comfort level

  • Breast pads

  • Good support bra

  • Camera

  • Boiled sweets for energy if not able to eat in labour

  • Comfort food for dad or mum post delivery as limited available amounts of food out of hours from vending machine

  • Toiletries

  • Tissues/ baby wipes for general use

  • Towels

  • Reading materials

  • Pillow

  • Phone and charger

Labour suite

  • Bottled water with spout for easy sipping

  • Maternity sanitary towels

  • Disposable knickers or big knickers for ease of comfort

  • Hair bands/ties

  • Nightdress for delivery

For Baby

  • Towels

  • Cotton wool

  • Nappies x 28

  • Sleep suits x 8

  • Bodysuits x 8

  • Scratch mitts and hat

  • Blanket/shawl

  • Car seat for baby on discharge home