Essential Home Birth Supplies
 

Are you planning on a natural home birth? If so, you’ll need quite a few home birth supplies to be fully prepared. Here’s a complete list of what you need for the birth, although your mid-wife may bring many of these supplies and extras.

Essential Home Birth Supplies

• Plastic sheets and old/cheap sheets to protect carpeting
• Anglepoise lamp to assist the midwife during birth and afterward for stitches
• Towels
• Pool if you plan for a water birth
• Birth ball, if you wish, for painful contractions
• Music for distraction and calming environment
• TENS machine
• Bulb syringe to clear baby’s nasal passages after birth
• Birth certificate
• Foot imprinter
• Tape measure
• Plastic cord clamp
• Alcohol prep pads
• Lube jelly
• Scrub brush
• Sterile gloves
• Gauze sponge
• Povidone
• Peri bottle, for cleaning after birth
• Witch hazel
• Digital scale and sling
• Heating pad
• Receiving blankets
• Bowl for placenta
• Wash clothes to use as perineal compresses after birth