The Grace UMC WMM chapter plans to prepare Clean Birthing Kits for midwives in Haiti. Clean Birthing Kits include the necessary supplies for a safe, hygienic birth outside of a medical facility.
Items contained in the kits reflect the World Health Organization’s six principles of cleanliness for birth including, (1) clean hands, (2) clean delivery surface, (3) clean perineum, (4) clean cord cutting instrument, (5) clean cord ties, and (6) clean cord care of the newborn baby.
Clean Birthing Kits include:
- Underpads
- Receiving blankets
- Sterile gloves
- Maternity pads
- Gauze pads
- Mesh underwear (SM-M or L-XL)
- Sterile scalpel
- Biodegradable plastic bag for the placenta
- Bar of soap or hand sanitizer
- Umbilical cord clamps
- Alcohol prep pads
- Nose aspirators (also known as a bulb syringe)
- Infant diapers