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Labour bag: Men's version!


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My wife is due with our first in two weeks.

We think we have everything prepared, but I haven't got my own bag packed for the Big Day.

This may be coming across as painfully self consciously "new man", but I just want to make sure that I have everything to hand and don't forget something stupidly obvious.

Mobile phone, wallet, warm jumpe, wife's favourites drinks, music and a book I have already.

Anyone want to volunteer some more items that saved your man's bacon on labour day!?

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Bottle of water, speedo's maybe a clean T-shirt (forget the warm jumper - have you visited the labour ward?), toothbrush & bendy straws, bendy straws, bendy straws. Also you need to know exactly how you're getting her there, and when you get there which doors you're going in (are main doors shut out of hours? If so how do you get in?), & how to get from main entrance to Labour ward.


Re food; they usually bring round 3 meals a day on labour ward, she may not want to eat, but you should always say 'yes' to the food offer as if she doesn't want it you can 'help' her eat it, but also have some good, high carb snacks for you.


Sensibleman says: a small transistor radio with an ear piece - Me, I'm a bit :-S about that.

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A spare tshirt. If for any reason your partner can't take/keep the baby skin to skin, you can step in. THis was very important to me planning the twin birth and MrF duly held twin I (gunk and all) to his chest for quite a long while between twin I and twin II's births...
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I kept telling Mr Buggie to wear a shirt (rather than t-shirt) for labour as I knew it would make it easier to do skin to skin after the birth (and it did!).


We'd got a fab hubbie bag together with snacks/camera/phone & charger/spare clothes/toothbrush/book/travel scrabble and connect 4 (to play with dependent on how with it I was!)... were almost disappointed when Bugglet arrived within 30 mins of us arriving at the hospital!!

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Ha, definitely a pillow or a cushion for yourself. If I'd had a gun I'd have shot MrDarling who had been kneeling by the birth pool (fair enough for quite a while) as I was going through the hell that is transition and said "Would you mind if I got up, my knees are killing me"

Not amused at all

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Whilst it's hot in the labour ward, (on my husband's recommendation) would take a jumper especially if the weather continues to be cold. You don't know what time you will be leaving to come home and it's pretty cold out this time of year. Also doubles as a makeshift pillow/cushion when not wearing it. Good luck to you both!
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Oh if you're a smoker, pack a nicotine inhalator or some pathches etc, b/c you might be dieing for a smoke... but those 5 min you spend outside might be just the time your little bundle decides to make an unexpected appearance. (Or worse, you return to find they've rushed your wife off for an emergency somethingorother and you have no idea where she is!) xx
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Thanks everyone for all the feedback and good ideas.

Bendy straws is a good one, so they are packed.

Along with extra tissues: it's highly likely that I will be the one doing the most crying too!


Now we wait as patiently as we can for the process to get started...

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  • 2 weeks later...

Well all your advice was taken on board, and my labour back packed full and tight.

What with the wife's bag too, the baby's bag, the car seat, another bag for luck - oh, and a pregnant woman too - it was one back breaking consignment to take out to the car in the mist at 3.30 this Wednesday morning.

But heck I wasn't complaining: we could be in that hospital for days, and would need all the supplies and comforts we could get.

We left Goose Green at 3.35, wife was in the labour room at 4... and our beautiful baby girl born at 4.30!


Don't regret my men's version labour bag one bit - all that preparation meant I could concentrate on everything I had to do, and not worry about racing around getting my stuff together.


Thanks for the advice... am sure we'll both be asking for plenty more from this part of the forum now that parenthood has arrived!

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