Baby Prep List for Beginners: Split Gear, Hospital Bag, and Postpartum Tasks as a Couple

Couples expecting a baby use this prep list for Beginners around week 16 to write out gear, hospital bag items, and postpartum needs and split them by stage. The whiteboard has four pages: page 1 sets the due date, hospital, helpers, and what to ask the hospital, page 2 lists needs on five branches, page 3 sorts items into buy now, buy after birth, and borrow or skip with a budget, and page 4 assigns who prepares what by when. The task board has four columns - to discuss, getting ready, ready, and after birth - with 4 parent tasks and 3 subtasks each. Write every item first, then sort by when to buy, to avoid overbuying and forgetting things. Health questions are not decided here: write them in the ask-the-hospital box and update your split after you hear back.