Delivery Unit

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Welcome to delivery unit on level three.

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Care on the delivery unit is provided

by a multidisciplinary team of midwives, doctors,

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anaesthetists, nurses, maternity support

workers, student midwives, domestic

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and administrative staff who work together

to provide you with high quality safe care.

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You may be admitted to delivery unit

if you have any factors during your pregnancy

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or birth, that would mean you

or your baby needed a higher level of monitoring.

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Delivery unit has 15 rooms and two theatres.

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All rooms have a dedicated bathroom either

adjacent to the room or as an en suite.

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Rooms one and two are in a quiet area

of the delivery unit, and you may use these

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if you have specific circumstances requiring you

to stay on the delivery unit for several days.

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Room three is our poolroom.

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This is a large open area with a state of the art

birthing pool, mood lighting and equipment

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to help us monitor

you and provide a calm birthing environment.

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We have wireless fetal heart rate

monitoring equipment that enables you to labor

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and give birth in the pool.

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If you're interested in having a pool bath with us

or have any questions about it,

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please ask your midwife.

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Rooms 4 to 11 are our standard birthing rooms.

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These come with comfortable

chairs, dimmable lights and monitoring equipment.

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We have access to wireless

fetal heart rate monitoring in every room,

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and we have a range of mobility

and birthing AIDS to support normal labour,

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such as birthing bowls,

stools, beanbags, and peanut balls.

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And the beds can be moved into lots of different

positions to encourage optimal positioning.

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Rooms 12 to 16 are larger rooms

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which are used where more staff are anticipated

or where more intensive monitoring may be required

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or where there's an infection risk for you

or your baby during pregnancy and birth.

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We have a range of pain relief available

on the unit.

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We're able to support Hypnobirthing and the pain

relief options available on the birth centre.

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And we also have a 24 hour service

providing patient controlled epidural analgesia.

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This is a type of lower dose

epidural that you administer doses of to yourself

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when you need it in labour.