Are you planning a midwife-led birth? Come along and learn more about your options for place of birth with the Birmingham Women's Hospital.

What to expect

Free NHS Antenatal Class - Birmingham Women's and Children's

Are you planning a midwife-led birth?

Would you like to know more about your options for place of birth with the Birmingham Women's Hospital?

Come along to our workshop, here we can discuss the different places where you can birth your baby, with a focus on midwife-led birth and Homebirth.

Meet us on Saturday at the Education Resource Centre at BWH (Basement floor, entrance located by the staff carpark, opposite the UHB A&E entrances).

The session will run from 10am until 12:30pm (approximately). We will cover the following topics:

Options for place of birth at Birmingham Women's Hospital

Homebirth care, Domino care, Traditional care

Who the Homebirth Team are

Pain relief options at home vs hospital

Safety of homebirth

Positive birth stories and videos

Hypnobirthing taster

And much more...

We recommend attending the Place of Birth Workshop prior to 28 weeks of pregnancy where possible.

The Birmingham Women's Homebirth Team covers the BWH Community Catchment area for homebirth/domino care.

This includes the entirety of the following postcodes: B12, B13, B14, B29, B30, B31, B32, B38.

We cover some parts of the following postcodes: B5, B15, B16, B17, B11, B27, B28, B45, B47, B62

If you live outside our catchment area or in one of the postcodes we partially cover you are welcome to attend our workshop to learn more about your place of birth options, but we may not to be able to provide you Homebirth or Domino care. Please speak to your community midwife to find out about Homebirth services in your local area.

Partners, children and birth partners are absolutely more than welcome (and encouraged!) to attend. Please only book one ticket for the whole party.

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