Maternity

Welcome to the South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust maternity site. Our maternity service provides maternity care for nearly 5000 women and their babies each year, during pregnancy, labour, birth and up until one month after birth.

Whether you are pregnant and thinking about where to have your baby or someone thinking about joining our team, we are delighted that you have chosen to visit this site.

This site has been written by the staff who provide the services that you may need throughout your maternity care and with valuable input from maternity user groups.

The aim of this site is to have all the information in one place about the services we provide both in your own home and in our maternity facilities. It will give advice about where to contact a midwife, ante natal options (including specialist medical services, where to give birth, etc) that we offer as well as routine antenatal care and will have a section on frequently asked questions. It will also give you advice about preparing for the birth and the virtual tour of the hospitals if you chose to come into hospital to give birth. We hope it will be of use to you all and we will be updating it regularly.

During pregnancy, we offer both midwifery-led care (in hospital and in the community) and consultant-led care (provided by our expert multi-disciplinary team based at our hospitals). In some cases your care will be shared by a number of professionals including your GP, Midwife and Consultant Obstetrician.

Our midwives look after women at the hospital antenatal clinic, midwifery led units and at local GP surgeries and in your own home whilst our medical staff are available for consultations if problems arise.

For your labour and birth, we provide midwifery led services as well as hospital-based care and a home birth service.  For reasons of medical safety, the place of birth is dependent on individual assessment.

Locations where this service is delivered

• Bangor Community Hospital
• Lagan Valley Hospital
• Ulster Hospital

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