Poulton-le-Fylde: Home Birth or Hospital Birth
Are you a pregnant Mum living in the Poulton-le-Fylde area making a decision about where to have your baby?
Location can be a major factor when you are deciding where to give birth.
If you choose to have a home birth, Blackpool Victoria Hospital is only 10/15 minutes away on a clear run. So if you changed your mind or needed to be transferred to hospital - medical assistance isn't far away.
Whilst you may understand the implications of having a gentle and uninterrupted home birth for some women, especially women who are pregnant for the first time a hospital birth is the preferred option.
New 'Midwife-led' Units at Blackpool Victoria Hospital
You will be pleased to hear that in January 2013 Blackpool Victoria Hospital was awarded £680,000 to invest in a new midwife led unit. Work has started and it is expected that the unit will be open very soon. Ask you local midwife for more details.
A midwife-led unit is designed to simulate a home from home environment and is geared to allowing births to unfold naturally and normally. A midwife-led unit should also be more receptive to complementary therapies, hypnosis for birth and pool birth.
Nicola Parry, Head Midwife, Blackpool Victoria Hospital:
"This will enable women and their families to have the optimum birth experience with reduced intervention but within a hospital environment, so specialist help is on hand if needed"
Blackpool Victoria Midwife-led Unit
This article reports there will be
- 2 Additional Pools for Water Birth
- 4 Ensuite Birthing ooms
- 1 to 1 Midwife Care during Labour
