Home Birth Essentials

Home Birth Essentials

Thanks to the Auckland Home Birth Community as the source of this information...
 

Suggestions for your Home Birth Box

• Affirmations
• Fairy lights
• Candles
• Music
• Hand held fan
• A comb to squeeze during contractions (acupressure points)
• TENS
• Rescue Remedy or Stress Med Spray
• Tea tree oil
• Zinc
• Arnica
• Essential oils
• Homeopathic kit
• Raspberry leaf tea
• Two buckets – one for dirty towels, and the other lined with a bin liner
• Old towels
• PVC mats for the floor
• Waterproof absorbent pads
• Coconut water
• Nibbles
• Ice pack
• Hot water bottles
• Photos of loved ones and special memories
• Sieve – for the birth pool ;)
• Torch
• A bowl or container for the placenta
• Padsicles – water placed on sanitary pads and then popped in freezer – bliss on a tender perineum
• Videographer/photographer
• A photo album
• Baby’s first outfit
• Nappies
• PJs or comfy clothes for mum for after the birth
• Tena undies for the first day or two (bottom shelf of the sanitary goods aisle in the supermarket)
• Water bottle in shower if you don’t have a removable shower head
• Fresh made bed for sinking into with baby 

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