Checklist
What do you need?
This is an indication of the things you need when the baby is born. On the internet you can find more lists.
For the baby’s room:
- Cradle or rib
- Dresser
- Changing mat
For in the crib or cradle:
- Fitting matrass
- 2 blankets
- 2 molton undersheets or pads
- 3 fitted sheets
- 3 sheets
- 2 naadloze metalen kruiken
- 2 badstof kruikenzakken
Clothes:
- 6 onsies side 50 or 56 (or 3 in 50 and 3 in 56)
- 2 pairs of pants
- 3 shirts
- Cardigan
- Jacket
- 4 pairs of socks
- 2 bonnets (hats)
Baby care:
- Baby bath and/or Tummy Tub
- Bath cape
- Bath thermometer
- Bottle of babyshampoo
- Soft hairbrush or comb
- 6 burping clots or bibs
- 6-12 hydrophilic diapers (cotton diapers)
- 3-6 flannel diapers to put around your baby or to put your baby on
- (washable) diapers
- Cleaning wipes
- Salve
- baby oil
- Digital thermometer
- Nail scissors with rounded tips (not indispensable)
For the nursing:
- Nursing pads
- 2-3 nursing bra’s
- Breast pump and bottles (it is best to buy these after the birth)
For the bottle feeding (only if you want to start giving bottles right away):
- Formula
- 3 bottles with teats for newborns
- Bottle brush
- Bottle warmer
On the way:
- Diaper bag
- Car seath
- Baby carrier or sling
- Baby car
At home:
- Box with a playmat
- Bouncer
- Baby monitor
Most insurers provide a so-called childbed-package, but apart from that you will need a few more things:
- 6 cotton diapers (hydrophilic diapers)
- a digital thermometer
- an iron jug
- a dish tub
- refuse bags
For the baby:
- a crib with blankets and sheets (no quilts)
- diapers
- clothes, socks and a bonnet
If you don’t receive a childbed-package, you’ll have to get the following things:
- 10 cellulose mats (the drugstore)
- a big piece of plastic or a big canvas
- 2 packs of maternity napkins
- 2 packs of special sanitary towels
- wads of cotton wool
- 2 packs of sterile gauzes (zestientjes)
- 10 gauzes, size 10×10 cm.
- a little bottle of alcohol 70
- cord clamp
- disinfecting soap
From 37 weeks it’s useful to have a bag ready to take with you if you have to leave for the hospital:
- T-shirt or pajama’s
- clean clothes in which you can go home again
- slippers
- toilet articles
- clothes for the baby
- bonnet for the baby
- a warm shawl or blanket for the baby
- a camera
- a punch plate of the hospital
