Edit: I am rearranging this post because it's a bunch of stuff for pink in the middle and I didn't want anyone else to get lost. So Pink, I put you at the end since I got a little carried away typing to you, haha.
Never, does it make me crazy that I'm sort of jealous of your +pee stick box? Haha.
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Hoping it's just too early!! Those symptoms sure seem like they should mean something.
ES, Hope that works for you, that would be awesome! I tried the murphy's law thing and bought a bunch of new work clothes a few months ago and that didn't work. I don't dare get rid of my maternity clothes though! Hopefully that's not what it'll take to get pregnant! When I got pregnant with my daughter, we'd been trying for 7 months and nothing...bought a house...and immediately got pregnant the week we moved in. Apparently there's a saying, "new house, new baby." Let's hope it doesn't take another new house for me to get pregnant again because that's going to be a while!
AFM, 5 dpo. It's kind of a boring time in the TWW.
Pink, your list looks good. Maybe more nighties than you need but just depends I guess. I brought pajamas that buttoned up on top. They were flannel because it was February and I was kinda hot in that. I have a friend who brought nursing tanks. They may be the most awesome thing because they're often in lieu of a bra and you may be able to wear them alone or just wear whatever you want over them. I didn't have them and I really wished I did. Never found any to fit.
I just used the maternity pads they had. You kinda need...a lot. So even though they're big and bulky it's not going to be comfortable anyway because you have ice packs down there so often.
Breast pads...if you're only in the hospital a handful of days, you probably won't need them anyway because your milk doesn't fully come in for a few days. But couldn't hurt to have a few especially if they keep you longer for any reason (I don't know what's standard there anyway). They nurse tiny little bits of colostrum at a time at first so you likely won't be spraying milk anywhere quite yet.
Diapers...I'd check on that because at my hospital everyone got 2 packs of diapers. I can't imagine you needing to bring your own of those. But for us, we used a TON of diapers at first. A diaper change was the only thing to wake my dd up to nurse...then she'd poop after every feeding. Then every time she peed in between. Soooo...that's a lot of diapers lol.
I doubt you'd need the towel.
For baby stuff...at my hospital they're required to wear a hospital shirt until it's time to go home. So you may only need a take-home outfit.
I didn't bring the boppy to the hospital and I will DEFINITELY take it God willing there is a next time. It makes it soooo much easier, I think. That being said, it may be one of those things, if you never have one, you'll think "what's the point?" But if you have one, you'll think, "How would I live without this?"
Regarding the nursing bra thing. I heard from various reliable sources that if you go to a place where they know what's up, they can tell you beforehand the proper nursing bra to get. My hospital had a boutique for things like this and they were pros. I never went though because I still wasn't confident it'd turn out just right and a lot of nursing bras aren't exactly cheap. So what I did, beforehand I bought some nursing bras that were really soft, more like a sports bra material so they had plenty of give. Then after my milk was in I bought a couple more that felt more like "normal" bras. I liked ones that had a little bit of structure to them because at least for me, when there's a LO sucking on there all the time, you tend to nip all the time too lol. Turned out they were the same size that would have been recommended to me ahead of time. I am pretty small-chested though so there wasn't a lot of guesswork anyway. I just bought smallish ones, hehe.
Oh and at my hospital they gave me a squirt bottle/bidet type thing to use when going to the bathroom. I think it was probably the best thing ever.
Umm...have some ibuprofen and iron pills and Colace (or whatever your equivalent is) ready for you when you get home.
And I wasn't allowed to eat anything during labour. I think that was standard policy at our hospital. Everyone in my maternity ward just wore hospital gowns the whole time. If you're going to leak from your maternity pads then at least you can bleed onto someone else's stuff. lol
