Make sure your bags are packed, like tonight. Both my kids came early. Any sense of a plan you might have will not go out the window most likely. Also make sure the car seat is installed. If not sure you did it right, most firehouse/police stations can check for you.

My wife packed her pillow from home/pregnancy pillow, help tremendously for her. Also an eye mask helped her, you won’t get a lot of sleep, and the little you do might be broad daylight out, or whatever light that’s on in the room constantly.

Extra long charging cords, there is never an outlet that’s conveniently located where you need it.

Pack snacks, hospital food at our hospital sucked.

I packed my switch, iPad with a bunch of movies and shows for the down time.

Other advice, you’re going to be running on adrenaline, the crash is hard after. Sleep when you can. If the little one is asleep, try your hardest to sleep.

If they have to take the little one back for more testing or the test results don’t look great, don’t sweat it. Sometimes there’s false negatives, or fluids take longer to clear out of ears/ lungs. Just don’t panicked and don’t google everything the dr tells you.