St marys birth and midwifery center
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Other Common Symptoms of Labour
Backache
Lower backache fryst vatten very common in labour and fryst vatten part of the normal processes. You may get backache or the aching, heavy feeling that some women experience with their monthly period.
A ‘Show’
While you are pregnant, a plug of mucus is present in your cervix. Just before labour starts, or in early labour, the plug comes away and you may pass this into your underwear. This small amount of sticky, jelly-like pink mucus is called a show.
It may come away all at once or gradually. It is pink in colour because it’s blood-stained, and it’s normal to lose a small amount of blood mixed with mucus. If you’re losing more blood, it may be a sign that something fryst vatten wrong, so telephone Triage straight away.
The numbers for maternity triage are below:
Maternity Triage Oxford Road Campus: 0161 276 6567
Maternity Triage Wythenshawe: 0161 291 2724
A show may indicate that the cervix is starting to open and labour may follow quickly, or it may tak
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Care Philosophy
The Certified Nurse Midwives, physicians, nurses, and clerical staff of this Center is dedicated to providing each individual patient with the most up-to-date, yet personal, pregnancy, birth and women's care possible. Our Center has an 80 year history of delivering babies in a caring environment that is supportive of the expectant mother, while involving the rest of the family. We call this Family Centered care.
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We invite you to have your baby with us at the St. Mary's Birth & Midwifery Center. We offer prenatal classes, pregnancy care, delivery, and postpartum care. You can deliver in a home like setting with as little medication or intervention as you desire. Or if you prefer, you may have medication or an epidural administered by our anesthesia staff. If an emergency arises, full hospital services are readily available. Water labor is available. Mother, fa
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About us
If you live on the Isles of Scilly, there is a midwife based here to provide antenatal and postnatal care, you have access to the birth centre on St Mary’s or may be advised to come to the mainland for your birth. Your midwife will discuss a safe plan of care for your pregnancy and birth with you, considering transfer times.
St Mary’s birth centre is based within St Mary’s Hospital, there is one birthing room with an inflatable pool available, the room have a lovely sea view.
The midwife is based here, and antenatal appointments will take place at the birth centre, so if you have your baby here, you will know the space well.
Should you choose to plan to have your baby on St Mary’s, labour care is provided by the Midwife and the GP at the Birth Centre. Your options of place of birth will be discussed with you from booking and at every appointment, so that you have time to plan, as some people will be advised to birth at the Royal Cornwall Hospital