Your essential partner’s checklist

• Contact list - include the numbers of both of your parents, siblings, best friends and babysitter of your children
• Lots of loose change - for the hospital car park, pay phone and vending machine
• Chocolate and snacks - to keep up his energy levels
• Spare T-shirt
• Toothbrush, toothpaste and wet wipes for quick freshen-ups - he'll want to look good in those first pictures, too
• Camera and battery charger, or spare film and batteries
• Mobile phone - remember this can only be used outside the hospital
• Tissues - for the tears
• A book or magazine - to keep him occupied if you have a long labour

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