Post Partum
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- Bond with your baby.
- Notify your cord blood company to pick up your baby's cord blood.
- Call, text and e-mail everyone about the amazing news!
- Take lots of pictures of your beautiful new baby.
- If you will be breastfeeding, make sure you are comfortable with the process before you leave the hospital. Quick breastfeeding tips.
- Sleep whenever you can before you have to leave the hospital.
- Take your wonderful new addition home.
- Order birth announcements.
- Apply for your baby's social security card.
- Contact your company's HR department or health insurance company to add your baby to your policy.
- Take your baby to his/her first appointment with the pediatrician! What to expect at your baby's first appointment.
- If you had a cesarean section, visit your OB-GYN for your 2-week incision check.
- Take your baby to his/her 2 week checkup. What to expect at your baby's 2 week checkup.
- Send the birth announcements.
- Go to your OB-GYN for your 6 week post partum visit.
- Take your baby to his/her 6 week checkup. What to expect at your baby's 6 week checkup.
