Bags Packed...and Packed Again.

While I wait for this baby to arrive, I've been doing all sorts of little things like:

• loading up my iPod with Rockabye lullabies (we LOVE these)


• loading up my iPod with music I may (or may not) want to hear before, during, after delivery.


• putting together an arrival gift for the au pair


• reading Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp


• reading up on breastfeeding


• doing laundry over and over again (super paranoid about it backing up like never before)


• and finally...packing and repacking my hospital bag

After consultation with other mommy friends, family, doula/nurse instructors from our childbirth and breastfeeding classes here's what I'm bringing...

For the labor/delivery bag (a small backpack):

• babybook


• a magazine for me


• iPod


• breathmints/candy


• cozy socks


• nursing cream


• massage aids


• toothbrush


• a touch of makeup

For the recovery room:

• my HPmini netbook (yes! I just may blog from the hospital bed-lol)


• toiletries


• nursing gown


• nursing bra/pads


• thank you notes


• my going home outfit


• baby's going home outfit/optional hospital pic outfit


• postpartum support girdle

Some other things:

• I decided against bringing my boppy to the hospital after our breastfeeding nurse advised against it.


• I am also bringing my DSLR


• Charm City Daddy is bringing his Flip Mino camcorder in his bag. Yes, he has a bag too, and in it he has been advised to bring Champagne! :)

What did I forget? What else would you suggest? I am really trying to bring as little as possible. If it doesn't fit in these two bags, I don't want it.