Preparation

please have these ready by 36 weeks for your home visit:

You will be ordering a birth kit from Cascade Health for $58.  Please go to this link & order by 33 weeks.

Please have these things ready by 36 weeks:

• Newborn carseat installed in the car you will drive to Anacortes Birth Center

• Bring a change of clothes for yourself and support person

• Bring clothes to labor in (or it’s okay to not wear clothes, too!)

• Clothes for baby to go home - onsie, hat, socks - bring two sets of different sizes

• A blanket to cover baby in the car

Things we will have for you at Anacortes Birth Center:

• Adult diapers and pads to use for discharge

• Peri-bottle

• Ibuprofen and acetaminophen

Postpartum supplies for you & baby to have ready at home:

• Menstrual pads for heavy days OR adult diapers - 1 pack

• Menstrual pads for light to moderate days

• Newborn and size 1 diapers

• Thermometers for mom & baby (please test before 36 weeks)

• Consider making “padcicles” or have some ice packs to use on your perineum

• Ibuprofen (200 mg each) and extra strength acetaminophen (500 mg each)

• Witch hazel pads or bottle

• Nipple & baby diaper ointment (or olive/coconut/other oil)

Herbs/homeopathies (optional):

• Arnica 30 CH (for under your tongue)

• Rescue Remedy

• Herbal sitz bath with calendula

• Salts (epsom salts or sea salts)