Congratulations on your pregnancy
Congratulations on your pregnancy, this website aims to offer information and support especially for you during the stages of pregnancy, childbirth and your baby’s early years. The pages include information for local services, links, videos and signposting that should be able to support you on your journey.
Why is Choice important to you?
Your maternity service encourages you to make choices about your maternity care including where you give birth to your baby and what you would like available to you in pregnancy and labour.
Understanding all your options means you can make choices and be fully involved in decisions about your individual care. This will help to make your experience positive even if unexpected things happen along the way.
“I feel respected as an individual”
“Expressing my preferences helped me have the breech birth I wanted.”
Congratulations on your pregnancy, this website aims to offer information and support especially for you during the stages of pregnancy, childbirth and your baby’s early years. The pages include information for local services, links, videos and signposting that should be able to support you on your journey.
Next Steps
- Choice – what choices are there?
- What to do next?
- Tips to help you through
- Concerns or Questions
- Resources
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For further information about Maternity Services, or to speak to a midwife, please call:
012345 678890 (24 hours a day)
Lancashire and South Cumbria Local Maternity System
Healthier Lancashire & South Cumbria is the partnership of NHS, local authority, public services and community organisations which are working together improve services and help the 1.7 million people in Lancashire and South Cumbria live longer, healthier lives. The region covered by the Healthier Lancashire & South Cumbria Better Births local maternity system is the same as this footprint and is diverse. The geographies are different and so are some of the local challenges.
Key
Alongside Midwife-led Unit (AMU)1
- A place to give birth that’s on the same hospital site as a
maternity unit, but where care is provided by midwives and
not doctors. Also known as an alongside birth centre. - A place to give birth that is run by midwives and isn’t on
the same site as a hospital maternity unit. Also called a
standalone or freestanding birth centre
