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Maternity leaflets and guidelines
COVID-19 Information
- 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
- 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)
- Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy Advice and Exercise
- Birth reflections
- Birth place decisions: Planning where to give birth
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Breech Presentation – What are your choices?
- Caring for your wound after having a caesarean section
- 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
- Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook
- GDm-Health
- Gestational diabetes
- Gestational Diabetes mellitus
- 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
- Induction of Labour
- Late Miscarriage or Termination of Pregnancy for Medical Reasons – Guidance for parents
- Loss of Your Baby – Neonatal – Guidance for parents
- Meet the Maternity Team
- Monitoring your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Newborn Feeding Policy Summary
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
- Outpatient Induction of Labour
- Pelvic girdle pain – information videos
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Perineal Care
- Pethidine Injection for homebirths
- Planning your birth
- Postnatal Community Care
- Pregnancy information for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- 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
- 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 or relative at night on the maternity wards
- Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnant Women
- TB, BCG and your baby
- 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
- Abandoned baby
- Acid aspiration prophylaxis
- Amniotic fluid embolus
- Anaesthetic involvement in maternity care
- Anaphylaxis in Maternity
- Antenatal care pathway guideline
- Antenatal corticosteroids to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality
- Baby, child and young person abduction/missing policy
- Birth Afterthoughts guideline
- Bladder care
- Breech presentation at term and external cephalic version
- Business contingency planning – midwifery staffing
- Caesarean section
- Cardiac disease in pregnancy
- Care in surrogacy
- Caring for friends and relatives
- Chickenpox in Maternity care
- Co-sleeping and bed sharing
- Complementary therapies in Maternity care
- 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 blood sampling 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
- Hypoglycaemia in newborns
- iCaSH referral policy for the management of women testing positive for sexual health conditions
- Identification of neonates requiring BCG immunisation
- Induction of labour guideline
- Intrahelatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP)
- Jaundice management of neonates
- Labour and birth guideline
- Management of obstetric accidental dural puncture and post-dural puncture headache
- Management of pre-term labour guidelines
- Maternal death guideline
- Maternity early observation warning system
- Maternity escalation guideline
- Maternity health records and record keeping guideline
- Maternity multi-disciplinary confidential communique guideline
- Maternity specific mandatory training policy
- 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
- Newborn feeding policy
- 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
- Prophylactic Anti-D immunoglobulin guideline
- Pulse-oximetry screening guideline
- Reduced fetal movement guideline
- Safeguarding children policy
- 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
- Syringe and cup feeding a newborn in hopsital
- Thames Valley guideline for neonatal abstinence syndrome
- 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
- Weight management in newborns
- Women who decline blood and blood products – treatment and management
- Women with disabilities and special needs guidelines