Are you planning on a natural home birth? If so, you’ll need quite a few home birth supplies to be fully prepared. Here’s a complete list of what you need for the birth, although your mid-wife may bring many of these supplies and extras.
Essential Home Birth Supplies
- Plastic sheets and old/cheap sheets to protect carpeting
- Anglepoise lamp to assist the midwife during birth and afterward for stitches
- Towels
- Pool if you plan for a water birth
- Birth ball, if you wish, for painful contractions
- Music for distraction and calming environment
- TENS machine
- Bulb syringe to clear baby’s nasal passages after birth
- Birth certificate
- Foot imprinter
- Tape measure
- Plastic cord clamp
- Alcohol prep pads
- Lube jelly
- Scrub brush
- Sterile gloves
- Gauze sponge
- Povidone
- Peri bottle, for cleaning after birth
- Witch hazel
- Digital scale and sling
- Heating pad
- Receiving blankets
- Bowl for placenta
- Wash clothes to use as perineal compresses after birth
Essential Home Birth Supplies
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