littlelady

i know im trying on him to get it by november plus the pram i want is on offer at the moment

Lucy - Do you have any tips on packing the hoispital bag as i dont want to pack too much stuff

Thanks

Soontobe

Take stuff to amuse yourself.. like if you read take a book that your into, or your ipod or a magazine with crosswords...it helps if your going to have a long labour or if you have bub at like 11 at night because 10 bucks says you wont be able to sleep and they'll kick hubbie out that late so you gotta do something..apart from staring at your cute little miracle

littlelady

i think im going to take a few books or magazines probably the only thing to keep me occupied as baby will be sleeping

mickey

I will start to pack my hospital bag today

actually I was aiming to have it packed already, but the flu which was going round stroke my down for 5 days

with pram, cot and sling I might wait until the 20th of october, when we are going to the babyshow although I am a little bit worried it is going to be a little too late!

but we will def have the best product range to choose from there!

princess2323

got mostly everything bought-- but waiting to put together the two baby closets we bought to actually put stuff away --the only reason i have mostly everythign already was beacause its my first so i had to buy literaly everything as no one in the family had a baby recently---so i bought most of my stuff used but like new condition (baby can only use that stuff for like a few months so its pointless to buy everything new but a few pieces are always a plus---stuff was so cheap i got multiples of a lot of stuff-- (finding room for all that stuff though was the issue) we have lots of neighborhood sales in the summer so i was only like 2-3 months when i bought most of my stuff- and it was like mostly namebrand expensive things becasue i would go to the good 'rich' neighborhoods and they sell u this stuff for practically nothing---probably cost me a couple hundred dollars for everything i bought

littlelady

wow ive had quite alot from when i was around 2-3 months pregnant as i had it given from family but cant wait to pack my hospital bag and get my pram

Fruitymeli

i had everything ready by 35 weeks

Lucy

LL - hmm I don't think I have any tips as such for the hospital bag - just last time I took far too much of everything - I took about 6 magazines, a book, a PSP, IPOD to entertain me but I didn't use any of them except 1 magazine the day after DD was born.

I packed lots of PJs, 2 large towels, lots of toiletries whereas this time I'm going to take 1 medium towel, 1 pjs etc. The hospitals are so hot I didn't need the 3 lots of clothes I'd taken either.

So I guess I'll still follow the basic hospital bag list but just take 1 of everything (except baby clothes) rather than 5!

littlelady

lol i keep reading the lists and when it comes to stuff for baby it just says nappies but it doesnt say how many youl need

Lucy

Yeah I know what you mean LL, it's also more tricky as each hospital seems to be different as well .. about the nappies they say in your "labour bag" to take the baby's first nappy, vest, sleepsuit etc but the MW put a nappy on DD so I didn't need that nappy and then during the night when I changed her there was a changing station stocked with wipes/cotton wool/nappies/nappy bags so I didn't actually use any of the nappies I had taken in.

Don't worry though, I'm sure your bag is going to be fine!