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COMMUNITY MIDWIVES
The Community Midwives who work with the Westgate Practice are:
HEALTH VISITORS
The Health Visitors who work with the Westgate Practice are:
Your Choices for Delivery
Antenatal care whilst you are pregnant will be given primarily by your Community Midwife. In the Lichfield area you have a number of choices as to where to have your baby. When your midwife meets with you, to complete your booking paper work, you can discuss this further.
Home Delivery
Your Community Midwife will be delighted to support you should you choose a home delivery, which is on offer to low risk pregnancies. Please discuss this with them.
Midwife Bookings at the Samuel Johnson Community Hospital, Lichfield
Your Community Midwife will give you all your antenatal and postnatal care. The Samuel Johnson Community Hospital Midwives will care for you during your labour.
Scans and routine antenatal tests are offered in the normal way at the Samuel Johnson Community Hospital.
The Samuel Johnson Community Hospital is a “low risk” maternity unit where an experienced midwife will deliver your baby. There is no resident doctor at the unit.
The unit is supported by the local General Practitioners but should Consultant care be needed at any stage for yourself or your baby, you will be transferred to Queen’s Hospital, Burton-on-Trent or Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield (approximately 20 minutes by ambulance.)
Emergency equipment is available at the unit if it is required but if specialist equipment is required transfer will be necessary.
There is no possibility of having an epidural anaesthetic here but the opportunity to transfer to Burton if you need one is available. However, other forms of pain relief and treatment are available, e.g. TENS machine, Entonox, Pethidine, Reflexology and Aromatherapy.
A water birthing pool is also available at the Samuel Johnson Community Hospital.
Midwife Bookings at Queens Hospital, Burton
This is similar to a Samuel Johnson Community booking, but your baby will be delivered by a Queens Hospital Midwife on their delivery suite and your scans may be in Burton. An anaesthetist is available at Burton if you require an epidural and then you would be changed to a consultant booking.
Consultant Booking at Queen’s Hospital or Good Hope Hospital
The Consultants at Queen’s Hospital are:
Miss Wendy Oakley, Mrs Katerina Anwar, Mr Tony Roberts, Mr Yosef Ibrahim, Mr Kevin Artley, Mr James Hollingworth, Mrs K Lingham.
The Consultants at Good Hope Hospital are:
Mr Mike Moloney, Mr Richard Cartmill, Ms Susan Houghton, Dr Catherine Rhodes, Mr Glynn Constantine.
They work with teams of Registrars, Junior Doctors and Midwives. The Consultant will only see you if there are medical or obstetric reasons.
Normal deliveries at the units are usually performed by the hospital midwives, but specialist medical care is on hand for mothers and babies who have problems in labour.
The units have modern technology on offer including epidural anaesthetics and monitoring equipment.
Consultant bookings can also be arranged at Walsall, Birmingham, Stafford and Nuneaton.
Before you make your final choice...
You can visit all of the units mentioned above, talk to your Community Midwife, and most important of all, discuss it with your partner.
To arrange to visit the units please ring:
ANTENATAL CLASSES
Expectant parents are offered a course of 2 Parent Craft Classes towards the end of tyhe pregnancy.
These are run by the Community Midwives and Health Visitors.
Your Midwive will dicsuss these with you.
The National Childbirth Trust also hold a series of classes. If you would like to enquire about the classes held please contact:
01827 61929
For your information:
If you need to contact a Midwife a message can be left at Samuel Johnson Community Hospital on:
01543 412900
In an emergency contact the hospital you are booked at.