Editing Pregnancy (section)

=== Things to Take ===

Once you've registered with the hospital they'll send you a checklist to take with you. The bare minimum of things to take with you are:

# Car seat
# Photo ID
# Insurance card

All other things are for comfort, but you need the Photo ID to check in, the insurance card if they ever need to check it, and the car seat to actually take the baby home in your car.

Things we packed in addition were:

* Games to pass the time
** Dominion and Milles Bornes
* An iPad and laptops
** We downloaded a show Julie wanted to watch on Netflix on the iPad
** I wrote some of this post while waiting
* Bedding
** The pillow Julie got me is far better than theirs
** The blanket I had has served me well since when I was a Masters student at NCSU
* Snacks
** A few chocolates, some peanut butter cups, some popcorn
** A few coke zeros and coconut water and Julie's favourite Hint water
* Toiletries and change of clothes
** In theory we'd swap to sleep in and shower there and so on
** In practice, I changed once and didn't shower but it was nice to brush my teeth
** It was nice to get out of the shoes and into slippers
* The stroller that the car seat fits into
** This was primo. She fell asleep as we rolled her around and then we slotted her out and into the car without a change in her demeanour.

Overall, considering we had the Subaru parked downstairs and they gave us a cart to transport stuff between Floor 5 and Floor 8, I think bringing these supplies was quite useful. There is lots of room to store them and it was very convenient.