Patient information leaflets
Maternity
Please see our patient information leaflets below
- Advice for third and fourth degree tears - advice for opening your bowels
- Advice on third and fourth degree perineal tears during childbirth
- Blood Groups and Red Cell Antibodies in Pregnancy
- Babies book of remembrance
- Baby in a breech position - your options
- Breastfeeding support in the community
- Building a happy baby
- Caesarean Section - your guide to recovery
- Caring for your wound after a caesarean section
- Caesarean birth under general anaesthetic: your birth story
- Caesarean birth under general anaesthetic: info for birth partners
- Cell Salvage when you have your baby
- Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU) patient information
- Elective Caesarean Section with Enhanced Recovery
- Enhanced recovery programme following caesarean section
- Ensuring your baby is kept warm after birth
- Headaches following epidural or spinal anaesthetics
- Induction of labour
- Information for Expectant Mothers - Anal Sphincter Injury
- Intrauterine contraception insertion after childbirth
- Iron deficiency and pregnancy
- Managing your weight in pregnancy
- Mothers taking antidepressants (SSRI and similar drugs) in pregnancy
- Obstetric Cholestasis
- Patient Safety Incidents
- PINE Clinic
- Planning your birth experience
- Postnatal Ward
- Pre-Eclampsia
- Screening Tests for You and Your Baby
- Second Degree Tear during Childbirth
- Start4 Life Feeding Information
- The Latent Phase of Labour
- Third & Fourth Degree Perineal Tear during Childbirth
- Tongue Tie
- Treatment of Venous Thrombosis in Pregnancy and after birth
- When your waters break early
- Your baby's movements in pregnancy
