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Your essential baby checklist
  • Your essential baby checklist

  • Here's what your baby will need after birth.

  • 5 bodysuits - unless you know that you are having a big- or small-for-dates baby, buy newborn-sized outfits
  • Newborn nappies
  • Going-home outfit - although you'll probably get lots of outfits as gifts
  • Cosy blanket - especially if it's cold
  • Car seat for the journey home - ensure that this has been fitted properly and is suitable for a newborn baby. You won't be allowed to go home without one

Prima baby says...

If you're a natural organiser you'll probably love packing your hospital bag, but don't feel you have to include everything on this list.

For an online checklist that you can personalise and update as you go along and print out to take shopping, make sure you have registered, then sign in and click on the My birth checklist under "You and Your Baby"

More essential packing checklists just for you:

Your essential labour checklist
Your essential hospital stay checklist
Your essential partner’s checklist

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