In this section, we have leaflets for the Obstetrics department. Please only read the materials on the advice of your clinician.
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COVID-19
- Parent information for newborn babies
- Planning your birth
- Screening for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection
Trust Guidance
- Advice and guidance for parents wishing to take their deceased baby home
- Antenatal Hydronephrosis
- Babies who do not breastfeed effectively
- Biomechanics
- Birth After Caesarean Section
- Bleeding and abdominal pain in early pregnancy
- Caesarean Section Wound Infections
- Care of the Perineum after Birth
- Collecting Colostrum Antenatally
- Consent for Laboratory Examination and Cremation or Sensitive Disposal of Early Pregnancy Loss up to 11+6 weeks
- Cup Feeding Guide and Competency for Parents
- Delayed Cord Clamping
- Early Pregnancy Unit
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- ECV
- Elective Caesarean Section
- Going home after a Caesarean Section
- How to Access Maternity Notes on your Smart Phone
- Induction of Labour
- Induction of Labour with Cervical Ripening Balloon
- Information for Pregnancy Loss
- Information for Women Taking Aspirin in Pregnancy
- Low Pregnancy Associated Plasma Protein A (PAPP-A)
- Magnesium Sulphate as a Protection against Cerebral Palsy
- Milk as Medicine
- Monitoring your baby's heartbeat in labour
- Monofer (Iron Infusion) - Maternity
- MRSA Antenatal Screening
- Outpatient Induction of Labour for Low Risk Pregnancy
- Postnatal Community Care
- Postnatal Exercises
- Preconception advice for women with Type 1 and 2 Diabetes
- Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PoUL)
- Preparing for your homebirth
- Preterm Birth Surveillance Clinic
- Safe Sleep for Baby
- Suppression of Lactation
- Term, Well Baby Feeding
- Testing for Blood Clots
- Tobacco Dependency Treatment in Pregnancy
- Tongue Tie and Infant Feeding
- Transfer to SPH Maternity and Neonatal Unit
- Use of Electronic Cigarettes
- Treating Ectopic Pregnancy with Methotrexate
- Uterine Artery Doppler
- Vulnerable Baby Feeding
- Your baby’s movements in pregnancy
Other leaflets:
- Consent for Laboratory Examination and Cremation or Sensitive Disposal of Early Pregnancy Loss up to 11+6 weeks
- Taking a Deceased Baby Home
Externally-produced leaflets:
- NHS: Your Choice: Where to have your baby
- NHS Screening Programmes: Screening tests for you and your baby
- RCOG: Your baby's movements in pregnancy
- UNICEF: UNICEF Bottlefeeding Guidance (Romanian)
- UNICEF: UNICEF Breastfeeding Guidance (Romanian)
