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What Expecting Mothers Need

When a woman gets to know that she is pregnant, she feels like she is going to have the whole world. One of the greatest joys of being a pregnant mother is arranging essential baby items for her child. Sometimes, however, pregnant mothers are too busy collecting baby items for their child, forgetting to arrange what they want as pregnant mothers, or simply putting it away.

"No worries, I can get my things ready even later"
"Oh! I forgot to collect my belongings while I was busy collecting baby items for my child"
"I think I don’t have much to arrange for myself"

This is how some pregnant mothers think about themselves. But if you are a pregnant mother, you can't think this way. There are many things that are essential for a pregnant mother. You have to start using some of these things during your pregnancy period. So do not procrastinate arranging your items.

As you read this article, you as a pregnant mother will get to know how much things you need for yourself. 

This blog post is about the items that are required for an expecting mother. You can check this list and select only the items that are required for you. Also, you can add some more items according to your preference, and can make your own essential items list. 

Pregnancy Essentials

1. Bed jackets and cheeththa (postpartum wear)
2. Comfortable daytime dresses (postpartum wear): instead of wearing bed jackets and cloths, you can choose to wear comfortable clothes after the delivery. However, when choosing such clothes check whether they enable you to breastfeed discreetly and pump conveniently 
3. Comfortable nighttime wear (postpartum wear)
4. Nursing wear (please check the video  to see different types of nursing wear): these are tops that specifically designed to enable you to breastfeed discreetly and pump conveniently wherever you go. The best thing about these clothes is, from the outside, no one can tell that these clothes are nursing wear
5. Maternity panties
6. Nursing bras (please check the video  to see different types of nursing bras)
7. Nursing pads: also called breast pads. Inserting one of these in each bra cup can keep your blouse dry if your breast leak (please check the below video to see how to use nursing pads)
8. Maxi pads / maternity pads / sanitary pads
9. Nipple cream: relieve sour nipples
10. Stretch marks cream: you can use these cream while you are pregnant to keep your belly moisturized which helps prevent itchiness and scratching  
11. Girdle (postpartum wear)
12. Getting to know about the books, websites, videos, and other online sources that provide information about pregnancy and parenthood
13. Personal hygiene items: for daily use and also to be included in the expecting mother's hospital bag. The things may include comb, tooth brush, tooth paste, soap or bath gel, cream, cologne, comfortable slippers. 

I believe this blog post is useful for the expecting mothers to make their own essential items list. There can be many more other items a pregnancy mother needs. Here I have listed down the most essential items. You can check this list and add or remove items according to your preferences. 

Check this video below for further details. The video contains not only photos of the items in the list above, but also some footage of some of the items.

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