HOME BIRTH SUPPLIES

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.

You will also need to gather these supplies. Please have them all together for your home visit by the midwife:

  • Waterproof mattress cover (or plastic shower curtain) for your bed

  • Old sheets you don’t care about staining OR white sheets (they bleach well)

  • 2 large bowls (for placenta, urine, supplies, etc)

  • 2 large baking sheets (used to organize midwife supplies and prepare a newborn warming station)

  • 4 cotton hats for your baby

  • 10 cotton flannel receiving blankets or baby towels for baby (to use at the time of birth)

  • Towels for you if you soak or shower and washcloths to use for cold or hot compresses. Consider white as it bleaches best - at least 10 of each

  • 2 large & thick trash bags - one in trash can & one in laundry basket

  • Hand sanitizer & liquid hand soap at each sink we will use

  • Hydrogen peroxide- 16 oz bottle (to remove blood stains)

  • Bleach OR Oxyclean (to wash sheets, towels, etc)

  • Bleach or Lysol wipes

For you & baby:

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

  • Menstrual pads for light to moderate days

  • Flexible straws

  • Newborn diapers

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

  • Consider making “padcicles”

  • Facial tissues

  • Lip moisturizer

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

Herbs/homeopathies (optional):

  • Arnica 30 CH (for under your tongue)

  • Rescue Remedy

  • Herbal sitz bath with calendula

  • Salts (epsom salts or sea salts)

  • Witch hazel pads or bottle

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

  • Mineral oil or almond oil or other oil for perineal massage/support