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Maternity

Maternity advice line (open 24/7)

0300 422 5541

Delivery Suite at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

0300 422 5542

Birth Unit at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

0300 422 5523

Aveta Birth Centre at Cheltenham General Hospital (temporarily closed)

0300 422 2324

Stroud Maternity Unit

0300 421 8018

Our maternity service provides care for more than 6,000 families in Gloucestershire every year. Find out about our services and what to expect during your pregnancy, labour and birth.

Contact the Maternity team

All the numbers you need for our units, community midwives and more.

Our maternity services

Find out about our midwifery led birth units, visiting times, contact details for the maternity team, and our bereavement services.

Your first midwife appointment

When you find out you’re pregnant, you will need to book your first appointment with one of our midwives. This is called your booking appointment.

Your pregnancy

Learn about how to stay healthy during your pregnancy, antenatal care, and monitoring your baby’s movements during pregnancy.

Labour and birth

Prepare for your birth, find out what pain relief you will be offered at our units, and find advice for your birth partner.

After your baby is born

Learn what to expect once your baby has arrived, care and support you’ll receive from us, and find advice and tips for feeding your baby.

Useful leaflets and information

Find useful information about every stage of your pregnancy, including preparing for labour and birth, and going home with your baby.

The Ockenden Report: our response

In December 2020, the Ockenden Report was published, which set out seven immediate and essential actions for Trust maternity services under 7 key themes.

Journey to Parenthood personalised care plan

The Journey to Parenthood is for you, your partner, or anyone else involved in your pregnancy to record what matters to you at each stage of your maternity journey. It will be given to you to carry in your hand-held maternity notes.

Important Maternity Services updates

Maternity services are open and here to support you.

Badger Notes electronic maternity notes

Our maternity notes are going paperless in summer 2023

Consultants

Dr Maggie Arlidge
Dr Christine Edwards

Patient information leaflets

Book of Remembrance following the death of your baby
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Caesarean section
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Checking your own blood pressure during pregnancy
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Ferinject® iron infusion
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FGM - information for families
Giving birth in a midwife-led birth unit
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Having your baby in Gloucestershire
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Information for parents who have suffered a stillbirth or neonatal death
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Insulin pump use before, during and after the birth of your baby
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Looking after your back and pelvis in pregnancy
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Maternity Bereavement Support Service
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Monitoring caesarean-section surgical wounds for infection
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#mycaesarean
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Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT) in pregnancy
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Planning a family when you have diabetes
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Postnatal exercises
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Refusal of blood transfusion during pregnancy and after birth
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Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
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Taking your baby home following their death
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The use of essential oils and massage to help with your labour
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Third and fourth degree tears following childbirth
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Tongue-tie and frenulotomy
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Waters breaking before labour starts
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Welcome to Transitional Care
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When your waters break early
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