Below are various leaflets which you may find helpful when thinking about your preferences for labour and birth.
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Trust Guidance
- Babies who do not Breastfeed Effectively
- Biomechanics
- Birth After Caesarean Section
- Birth Choices Outside the Usual Recommendations
- Birth Reflections and Birth Support
- Bleeding and Abdominal Pain in Early Pregnancy
- Choosing Where to Have Your Baby
- Community Postnatal Care
- Consent for Laboratory Examination and Cremation or Sensitive Disposal of Early Pregnancy Loss up to 11+6 weeks
- Cup Feeding Guide and Competency for Parents
- Delayed Cord Clamping
- Domperidone for Increasing Breast Milk Supply
- Early Pregnancy Unit
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Elective (Planned) Caesarean Section
- Expression and Storage of Your Colostrum
- Ferric Derisomaltose (Iron Infusion)
- Induction of Labour
- Information for Pregnancy Loss
- Information for Women Taking Aspirin in Pregnancy
- Low Pregnancy Associated Plasma Protein A (PAPP-A)
- Medicines in Pregnancy
- Membrane Sweep
- Milk as Medicine
- Misoprostol (Angusta ®) for Induction of Labour
- Monitoring Your Baby’s Heartbeat in Labour
- Outpatient Induction of Labour for Low Risk Pregnancy
- Parents Wishing to Take their Baby Home After Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Neonatal Death
- Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PoUL)
- Preterm Birth Surveillance Clinic
- Progesterone Treatment for the Management of Bleeding During Early Pregnancy
- Safe Sleep for Baby
- Supporting your Partner at Night on the Maternity Ward
- Suppression of Lactation Following Pregnancy Loss
- Term, Well Baby Feeding
- Testing for Blood Clots During or After Pregnancy
- Tobacco Dependency Treatment in Pregnancy
- Tongue Tie and Infant Feeding
- Transfer to St Peter’s Maternity and Neonatal Unit
- Treating Ectopic Pregnancy with Methotrexate
- Use of Electronic Cigarettes
- Uterine Artery Doppler
- Vitamin K: A Parent's Guide
- Vulnerable Baby Feeding
- Your Baby’s Movements in Pregnancy
- Your Pregnancy Care at Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospital whilst in HMP Bronzefield
Externally-Produced Leaflets
- NHS: Your Choice: Where to have your baby
- NHS Screening Programmes: Screening tests for you and your baby
- RCOG: Your baby's movements in pregnancy
- Thrombosis UK / OUH: Pregnancy and VTE
- Tommy's Pathway: Aspirin in Pregnancy
- Tommy's Pathway: Clinical Decision Support Tool
- UNICEF: UNICEF Bottlefeeding Guidance (Romanian)
- UNICEF: UNICEF Breastfeeding Guidance (Romanian)




