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Maternity leaflets and guidelines
COVID-19 Information
- NHS England: Coronavirus – parent information for newborn babies
- Looking After Yourself and Your Baby During Pregnancy
- Coronavirus - information for newborn babies (DoH)
- Coronavirus - information for newborn babies 2 (DoH)
- Coronavirus - Planning your birth
► Information Leaflets
- Advice and exercises following an OASI 3rd/4th degree tear
- Advice and exercises following Caesarean Section
- A guide to starting insulin for women with gestational diabetes
- Anomaly Scan Information
- Antenatal Colostrum Collection
- Antenatal Day Assessment Unit (ADAU)
- Assisted vaginal birth (ventouse or forceps)
- Baby check app
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Bed sharing safety tips
- Being overweight during pregnancy
- Birth options after previous caesarean section
- Birth place decisions: Planning where to give birth
- Birth reflections
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- BSOTS Maternity Triage
- Car seat factsheet
- Caring for your baby at night
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- Cervical stitch
- Considering a Caesarean birth
- Corticosteroids in pregnancy
- Down’s, Edward’s & Patau’s syndromes screening
- Early pregnancy scan
- Elective Caesarean Birth
- Epidural – Your Choice
- Expectant Management Following a Miscarriage
- Feeding your baby during a hospital admission
- Feeling your baby move
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- GDm-Health
- Gestational diabetes
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in pregnancy and newborn babies
- GROW 2.0 Information for mothers
- Having a small for gestational age (SGA) baby
- HIV and Pregnancy – You and Your Baby
- Home birth at MKUH
- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Pregnancy
- How to take your blood pressure at home using an upper arm monitor
- Illness in newborn babies
- Improving your pelvic health and fitness after pregnancy
- Induction of Labour
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
- Jaundice in newborn babies
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons – Guidance for parents
- Looking after your pelvic floor when you have had a baby
- Loss of Your Baby – Neonatal – Guidance for parents
- Maternal request for caesarean section
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Pelvic girdle pain – information videos
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Perineal Care
- Perineal Massage in pregnancy
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Placenta praevia, placenta accreta and casa praevia
- Planning your birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Preterm birth clinic
- Protecting women and babies with anti-D Immunoglobulin
- Protecting your baby from low blood glucose
- Reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia – Information for women taking aspirin in pregnancy
- Safe sleep in Winter – Lullaby Trust
- Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB)
- Staying comfortable during labour
- Stillbirth or Termination of Pregnancy (over 24 weeks) – Guidance for parents
- Supporting your Partner at Night on Wards
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- TB, BCG and your baby
- Tears during Childbirth
- The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
- Tongue Tie Division to Improve Breastfeeding
- Understanding why your baby died
- Use of water in labour and birth
- Vitamin K for Newborn Babies
► Maternity Guidelines
- Acid aspiration prophylaxis
- Amniotic fluid embolus
- Anaesthetic involvement in maternity care
- Anaphylaxis in Maternity
- Antenatal care pathway guideline
- Baby, child and young person abduction/missing policy
- Birth Reflections Guideline
- Bladder care
- Breech presentation at term and external cephalic version
- Business contingency planning – midwifery staffing
- Caesarean section
- Cardiac disease in pregnancy
- Care during labour and birth
- Care in surrogacy
- Caring for friends and relatives
- Chickenpox in Maternity care
- Co-sleeping and bed sharing
- Combined screening consent form
- Conducting perinatal mortality reviews using the National Perinatal Mortality Review Tool
- Conscientious objection guideline
- Cord blood analysis guideline
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Difficult or failed intubation management
- Down Syndrome – management of suspected or confirmed Down Syndrome on postnatal wards/neonatal unit
- Enhanced recovery after caesarean delivery
- Epidural Analgesia in labour
- Epilepsy in pregnancy
- Examination of the newborn
- Expressing and handling breast milk
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Fetal anomalies guideline
- Fetal growth assessment guideline
- Fetal monitoring guideline
- Flowchart for the management of COVID-19 in pregnant women
- Group B Streptococcal (GBS) prevention and management
- Haemoglobinopathy (SCT) screening guideline
- Hepatitis B infection in pregnancy screening management
- Herpes and Human Papilloma Virus in pregnancy
- HIV Antenatal and Perinatal management guideline
- Hyperemesis gravidarum
- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
- iCASH referral policy for the management of women testing positive for syphilis in the antenatal setting
- Induction of labour guideline
- Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP)
- Maternal death guideline
- Maternal Sepsis guideline
- Management of obstetric accidental dural puncture and post-dural puncture headache
- Maternity early observation warning system
- Maternity escalation guideline
- Maternity health records and record keeping guideline
- Maternity infant feeding policy
- Maternity specific mandatory training policy
- Maternity Safeguarding guideline
- Medical Management of Miscarriage and Termination of Pregnancy (12-176 weeks)
- Midwives exemption management
- Miscarriage termination of pregnancy and neonatal death before 24 weeks
- Multiple pregnancy and birth guideline
- Multi-professional handover of care
- Neonatal resuscitation guideline
- Newborn blood spot screening guideline
- Non-attendance, no access for planned antenatal and postnatal care
- Obesity guideline
- Obstetric haemorrhage guideline
- Operative vaginal birth guideline
- Optimal cord management of all newborns
- Perinatal mental health guideline
- Perineal trauma and repair guideline
- Placenta pravia guideline
- Postnatal care pathway
- Pre-labour rupture of membranes
- Pre-term, pre-labour rupture of membranes and birth
- Prophylactic Anti-D immunoglobulin guideline
- Pulse-oximetry screening guideline
- Reduced fetal movement guideline
- Remifentanil Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) for service users in the labour ward delivery suite
- Screening for Down’s, Edwards and Patau’s syndromes
- Screening in pregnancy guideline
- Self-monitoring blood pressure in pregnancy
- Shoulder dystocia guideline
- Sickle cell disease in pregnancy
- Stillbirth termination of pregnancy and neonatal death after 24 weeks
- Submitting placental specimen to cellular pathology
- Substance misuse in pregnancy
- Sudden maternal collapse
- Thames Valley guideline for neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy
- Thromboembolic disease in pregnancy
- Thromboprophylaxis in pregnancy and puerperium
- Tongue tie in newborn infants
- Transfers by ambulance guideline
- Ultrasound for suspected SGA
- Umbilical cord presentation and prolapse
- Uterine inversion guideline
- Vaginal birth after caesarean section and care of women with previous uterine surgery
- Vitamin K Prophylaxis guideline
- Waterbirth guideline
- Women with disabilities and special needs guidelines
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Patient Information Leaflets
Imaging
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
Pain Management
Physiotherapy