Aug
5
2009
Before leaving the hospital look on the baby cart your baby was wheeled around in. You’ve been charged for everything so take anything that’s left including diapers, sanitary pads, witch hazel pads, peri-bottles, sprays, formula samples and Vaseline tubes if your boy was circumcised. If you are not nursing ask your discharge nurse for extra formula samples
Aug
4
2009
We are the sentimental type that like to compare our own hospital pictures to that of our parents and of our own newborns so we had to buy the newborn hospital pictures. But don’t get carried away, especially if you deliver in a smaller hospital where the nurse takes the picture instead of a professional. Buy an individual photo or a small package if they are really good. Otherwise take your own on a digital camera and take them to Wal-mart or Sam’s Club to get quality prints instead of printing on your home inkjet
Aug
3
2009
Unless you receive one of these ink kits where you can make hand and feet prints for your baby book, don’t go out and buy one. Save your money and use the hospital ink. The nurse will gladly make extra sets for you. If you want them in your baby book bring extra pages because those little newborns don’t particularly like making prints and are likely to squirm and smudge and require more than one attempt to get a good set. Our hospital made extra prints for us on something that looked like large address labels so we could peel and stick them where we wanted in the baby book and avoid messing something up when baby squirms.
Jul
31
2009
When it comes to shopping and packing for your hospital stay ignore the lists from books. You will waaay over pack. Talk to other moms for advice. You’ll need toiletries and an outfit to go home in. Beyond that, the hospital takes care of most everything else. Use their gowns for labor, delivery and recovery. If you are very modest you might feel more comfortable throwing on a robe for when visitors come. But don’t concern yourself with getting nightgowns that might get stained or special (aka expensive) ones especially for nursing.
Jul
28
2009
Have you ever been to a ball game or amusement park and bought the food? They have you locked into their venue and know you will need food so they ratchet the prices up very high. The hospital does the exact same thing with all those pills they give you while in the hospital for the birth of your baby. They know you aren’t going to get up during post-delivery recovery and run to Wal-Mart to get ibuprofen so they chargeyou a bundle. When we got the itemized bill for our first child in 2006 we were amazed at the charges for things like $8.80 for ibuprofen, $1.60 for each vitamin, and $2.20 for stool softener. The second time around in 2008 we brought our own ibuprofen, pre-natal vitamins and Wal-Mart brand stool softener. We still got dosage amounts from the nurse and showed them what we brought, but saved a lot of money over the 3 days by taking our own.
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