If you live a long way from your chosen hospital, or you have a history of rapid labours, you may wish to put together an emergency car birth kit. It is important to put these items together long before labour begins.
- car Seat for baby
- phone numbers of GP, midwife, hospital, etc
- plastic sheeting or tarp (to protect vehicle interior)
- towels
- bin bag or ice-cream tub (to place placenta)
- blankets (both for you and your baby)
- clean shoelaces for tying off umbilical cord
- bulb syringe/nasal aspirator (to suction infants nose and mouth if necessary)
- nappies
- wipes to clean afterwards
- hand sanitizer
- clothes for baby, including a hat
- clean underwear and large menstrual pads for Mum
- disposable camera
- change of clothes for Mum
- bottled water to rinse hands and clean up afterwards
- extra pair of dry shoe
- torch, in case it is dark and you have to pull over
by Carrie, Mum to Lorien, Brynna, Jasper, Rowan and Willow
