💼 Gear & logistics · Around 35 weeks (month 8)

🧳 The hospital bag and your survival kit

Pack according to your own maternity unit’s instructions.

The other bags to pack

1. What to prepare
Bring identification, pregnancy records, prescribed medicines, comfortable clothes and requested baby-care supplies.
2. What to check
Plan transport home and a suitable car seat if travelling by car. Ask what the unit supplies; keep registration and leave tasks separate from hospital admission.
3. In Singapore
Confirm the maternity hospital’s assessment route and after-hours number. Arrange newborn follow-up with the hospital, polyclinic or GP, including jaundice review when directed. Public subsidies and MediSave arrangements have eligibility rules; check charges and referral requirements.
4. In Singapore
Register a Singapore birth through LifeSG within 42 days and download the digital birth certificate. ICA does not register overseas births: use the authorities where the birth occurred and separately check Singapore citizenship, immigration and parentage requirements.

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