What are midwifery led units?
The Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU) is a short-stay birthing centre which is a relaxed environment close to the hospital with midwives and clinical support workers always on shift. The MLU offers a variety of facilities in a modern and comfortable setting including: Three birth rooms – each with a birthing pool.
What is midwifery led alongside birthing unit?
Alongside midwifery units (AMUs) are within a hospital that provides obstetric care, close to the delivery (birthing) suite, or labour ward, or may be on the same site in a different building. AMUs are close to medical facilities and personnel should the woman need them.
Where is the early pregnancy unit Wrexham?
The Antenatal Clinic is located at the end of the corridor on your left-hand side.
What’s the difference between midwife-led and consultant led?
Basically midwives are the experts in normal, low-risk pregnancies and birth and consultants (and their junior doctors) are experts in non-standard, high-risk pregnancies and emergency situation births.
Is it safe to give birth in a midwife-led unit?
If you’re having your second baby, a planned home birth is as safe as having your baby in hospital or a midwife-led unit. It’s rare but, if something goes seriously wrong during your labour at home, it could be worse for you or your baby than if you were in hospital with access to specialised care.
Can you have an epidural in a midwife-led unit?
Alongside birth centres are on the same sites as hospital labour wards. That means you can be transferred easily if you do want an epidural (Which?, 2018). If you’re not in an alongside unit, you can be transferred from any midwife-led unit or birth centre to hospital for an epidural too.
Is it safe to give birth in a midwife led unit?
Can you have an epidural in a midwife led unit?
When should you call early pregnancy unit?
The Early Pregnancy Unit (EPU) is open to any women who is less than 14 weeks pregnant who is experiencing symptoms they find concerning (e.g. vaginal bleeding or lower abdominal pain). If you have had a previous miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, you can also be seen in EPU for a dating or pregnancy location scan.
Can you be induced at a midwife led unit?
Outpatient induction of labour This method is safe and has been used for several years for low risk women; and will now be offered to more. If labour starts whilst at home you may even deliver on the Midwife Led Unit (MLU) or have a pool birth.
Can you have a home birth if consultant led?
All birth-place options will usually be available for you including home birth, midwife led unit or consultant-led unit. These appointments may be provided at home, in the community, at your GP surgery or local maternity hospital but if all remains well, you will not meet a doctor during your pregnancy journey.
What does midwife led mean?
If you are booked for Midwifery-led care all of your antenatal appointments, your planned labour and birth care and postnatal follow-up will all be with a midwife as your lead professional. All birth-place options will usually be available for you including home birth, midwife led unit or consultant-led unit.
What happens when you go to the early pregnancy unit?
A doctor will assess you by taking your medical history. You will also have an internal ultrasound scan. The doctor will then discuss with you the likely cause of your symptoms, whether you need to have any more investigations, and your treatment options.
Can you call your midwife at any time?
When can I call my midwife? You should be able to call a midwife 24 hours a day. Your midwife will give you the contact details. It may not be a midwife you know, but there will always be someone on call.
How early can you have an early scan?
You can get a private early pregnancy scan at 6 – 12 weeks. By 6 weeks the doctor should be able to see your baby’s heartbeat on the ultrasound scan. The heartbeat will be visualised and not heard at this stage. Any earlier than this and it will be hard to properly detect your baby on the scan.
Why is my pregnancy consultant led?
If you have certain medical problems or have had complications in a previous pregnancy, your midwife will refer you for Consultant-led care to the Antenatal Clinic for a Doctors’ opinion.
Are midwife led units safe?
More women should be encouraged to give birth at midwife-led units rather than traditional labour wards, says NICE. In updated guidance, the evidence now shows that midwife-led care is safer than hospital care for women having a straightforward, low risk, pregnancy.