Hospital Bag

Hi everyone! How many nappies are you packing in your hospital bag? I'm having a C-section, so I'm anticipating to be in the hospital for about three days.

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I'm not having a planned c-section but I've grabbed a pamper size 1 50pack from tesco for £5 on clubcard as I've had several people tell me they can go 6-10 times in 24 hours and I'd rather have too many on me than not enough 😅

We took a small pack last time, I think it’s was about 24. But the hospital kept giving them to us. We will probably take the same again

I had an emergency c section and was discharged 12 hours after baby was here. I’d personally only take a pack - we didn’t even use ours as the hospital just used theirs in the time we was there x

I had a section last time and was in for less than 24 hours. Took a small pack of pampers which was plenty x

for my last 2 births I've only packed about 7 in my hospital bag and then kept the rest of the pack in the car so if we've needed more / had to stay in longer then they were already in an easy place for when my husband came in x

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