Patient information A-Z

A

• Antenatal Hand Expression
• Antenatal perineal massage
• Are you expecting twins or triplets?

B

• Birth after caesarean patient information
• Breastfeeding Support - after you have gone home from the Rosie Hospital

C

• Caesarean section: A guide to anaesthesia
• Caesarean section wound care
• Consent to share information and your information sharing preferences
• Continuity around Rosie elective sections

D

• Do you suffer from epilepsy? Are you taking medication for epilepsy? Are you pregnant or planning to start a family?

E

• Ending of a pregnancy due to foetal abnormality
• Expectant management of miscarriage

F

• Feeding your baby infant formula by bottle: Information for parents who choose to feed infant formula by bottle

G

• Golden Rules for expressing your milk if your baby is not latching at your breast yet
• Group B Streptococcus (GBS) - Your pregnancy and your baby

H

• Headache after epidural analgesia or a spinal anaesthetic
• Home birth
• How to use your MRSA screening test

I

• Induction of labour (IOL)
• Infection in newborn babies – information for parents & carers
• Information about a lumbar puncture
• Information for parents in hospital, on what to expect in the first six hours after birth
• Information for parents whose baby is at increased risk of low blood sugars after birth
• Information for people requesting a planned caesarean birth
• Information for pregnant women with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more
• Intravenous (IV) iron infusion: Monofer® (a combination of iron and ferric derisomaltose)

J

• Jaundice in newborn babies

L

• Labour and the latent phase

M

• Maternity Care and Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Maternity information for those considering giving birth unassisted by a midwife

O

• Outpatient induction of Labour: (IOL) guidance for women (Propess®)
• Outpatient induction of Labour (IOL): Guidance for women (Prostin®)

P

• Pain and/or bleeding in early pregnancy (first 13 weeks)
• Pain relief during pregnancy and after birth
• Perineal tears and episiotomies in childbirth
• Postnatal information for parents and babies being discharged home from the Rosie Hospital
• Postnatal information for women with hypertension (raised blood pressure) in pregnancy
• Pregnancy of unknown location (PUL)
• Preterm Surveillance Clinic

R

• Recurrent pregnancy loss clinic information
• Reduced fetal movements
• Reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in pregnancy and the postnatal period
• Remifentanil patient controlled analgesia (PCA) in labour
• Rhesus D (RhD) negative blood type: care in pregnancy and after birth

S

• Self-administration of Medicines (SAM) in the Rosie Hospital Maternity Wards
• Short Cervix

T

• Third and fourth degree perineal tears
• Transvaginal ultrasound scan (TVS) in early pregnancy

U

• Urinary Retention Following Childbirth
• Using hypnosis techniques for labour and birth - the role of your midwife

V

• Vitamin K