Birth Preference Patient Leaflets

Imaging

• Early pregnancy scan
• Anomaly Scan Information

Maternity

• Feeling your baby move
• Corticosteriods in pregnancy
• Birthing partners staying overnight
• Gestational Diabetes mellitus
• Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
• Meet the Maternity Team
• Staying comfortable during labour
• Epidural – Your Choice
• TB, BCG and your baby
• Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
• Perinatal Mental Health
• Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
• Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia – Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
• Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
• Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
• Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
• The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
• Illness in newborn babies
• Planning your birth
• Coronavirus: Parent information for newborn babies
• Use of water in labour and birth
• Postnatal Community Care
• HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
• GDm-Health
• Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
• Outpatient Induction of Labour
• Induction of Labour
• Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
• Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
• Perineal Care
• Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
• Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
• NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
• Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
• Birth Reflections
• Understanding why your baby died
• Gestational diabetes using the GDmHealth App
• Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
• Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
• Pethidine Injection for homebirths
• Loss of Your Baby – Neonatal – Guidance for parents
• Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons – Guidance for parents
• Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) – Guidance for parents
• Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
• How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
• Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
• Antenatal Colostrum Collection
• A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
• Early pregnancy scan
• Anomaly Scan Information
• Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
• Home birth at MKUH

Neonatal Unit

• Birth Reflections
• Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
• Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding

Pain Management

• Epidural – Your Choice

Physiotherapy

• Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise