Minimum and desirable requirements for childbirth-“Childbirth”

Requirements for Childbirth

Minimum requirements

1. A lot of very clean clothes.
2. Alcohol
3. An antiseptic soap.
4. Clean brush for scrubbing.
5. Clean cotton.
6. New razor blade to cut the umbilical cord.
7. Sterile gauze.
8. Two pieces of sterile, strong thread to tie the umbilical cord.

Additional desirable requirements

1. Antiseptic eye drops for the baby’s eyes.
2. Fetoscope or fetal stethoscope for listening to the baby’s heart sounds.
3. Sterile needle and gut thread for sewing tears in the birth opening.
4. Sterile syringe and needles.
5. Suction bulb for sucking mucus out of the baby’s nose and mouth.
6. Two bowls- I for washing hands and I for catching and examining.
7. Two clamps (hemostats) for clamping the umbilical cord.