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Tips For Prenatal Preparations For Postpartum

by: Shalu | last updated: July 02, 2009
Category: Just for Mom: Postpartum & Pregnancy Supports | Tags: prenatal preparations for postpartum

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Tips For Prenatal Preparations For Postpartum

The postpartum period, the first six to eight weeks after childbirth is a time of physical and emotional readjustment. The reproductive organs return to their pre pregnant state. Before the baby is born, do some birth planning. In this guide, I am going to give some tips for the preparation for postpartum that you can do during your prenatal period.

Choose a doctor, clinic, or nurse practitioner to provide health care for your baby. Interview people before the baby is born and chooses one who is well qualified, who is warm and caring, whose office is close to your home, and who meets the requirements of your insurance company, if applicable.

Pack your bag for the hospital include items for labor, postpartum, and the baby’s trip home, or gather supplies for a home birth.

Acquire the necessary clothing, supplies, and equipment for the baby.

Buy diapers or sign up with a diaper service.

Arrange a convenient baby care area and a sleeping area. For the dressing and diaper changing area, have a padded surface to lay the baby on and have clothing, diapers, waterproof pants, moistened wipes, pins, diaper rash ointment, and a diaper pail with arm’s reach.

For sleeping, have a basket, a baby carriage, a crib or a cradle where the baby can safely placed.

Make sure all the baby’s borrowed clothes are clean. New clothes are sometimes softer and more comfortable after they have been washed.

Buy or a borrow a book on infant care and one on breastfeeding.

If you intend to breastfeed, get two or more nursing bras and breast pads. Find out where you can obtain other supplies if needed.

Clean your house. It may be the last chance you have far quite a while. If you have been accumulating piles of papers, magazines and clothing, get rid of what you don’t need. Prepare some dishes in advance and freeze them.

Make a list of important phone numbers and post it near the phone. You may include the baby’s doctor, your doctor/midwife, hospital/birth center, emergency aid service, your childbirth educator, diaper service, breastfeeding counsellor.

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