Useful leaflets and information

Having your baby in Gloucestershire

Antenatal and hypnobirthing classes

Screening tests in pregnancy

Fetal anomaly screening in early pregnancy

Foods to avoid during pregnancy

Healthy eating and vitamin supplements during pregnancy

Emotional health in pregnancy and after giving birth

Being overweight in pregnancy

The flu vaccine in pregnancy

The whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy

Exercise during pregnancy including pelvic floor

Reducing the risk of venous thrombosis during pregnancy and after birth

Looking after your back during pregnancy

Alcohol during pregnancy

Help to stop smoking

Illegal drugs and pregnancy

Amniocentisis and Chorionic Villus Testing

Rhesus negative blood group

Bleeding during pregnancy

Dental health during pregnancy

Information for fathers and birth partners

Relationships during pregnancy

Travelling during pregnancy

Financial support

Family information service

Pre- eclampsia

Kicks count: home doppler leaflet

FGM - information for families

Covid vaccination in pregnancy

COVID vaccination: childbearing page, currently pregnant or breastfeeding

Vaccine in pregnancy letter

Vaccines in Pregnancy leaflet

The leaflet is in English here for other languages please see below:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• Polish
• Punjabi 
• Romanian 
• Somali

Your baby's movement during pregnancy

Fetal anomaly screening in your 20 week scan

Pelvic pain

Gestational diabetes/pregnancy diabetes

Oral glucose tolerance test (GTT) in pregnancy

Group B strep in pregnancy

If your baby is breech

Breech baby at the end of pregnancy

Low lying placenta

Refusal of blood transfusion in pregnancy

Working and employment

Ferinject iron infusion in pregnancy

Checking your own blood pressure during pregnancy

Pre-eclampsia

When your waters break early

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital Women's Centre Amenity Rooms

Giving birth in a midwife led facility

How do I know when labour starts?

Waters breaking before labour starts

What happens in labour

The use of the essential oils and massage to help with your labour

Pain relief in labour

Maternity hypnobirthing leaflet

Vitamin K for newborn babies

Caesarean section

Information for women and their partners about the induction of labour

Induction of labour

Vaginal birth after caesarean section

Magnesium Sulfate in pregnancy

Perineal tears and episiotomies

Considering giving birth without the assistance of a midwife (freebirth)

Registering your baby

Screening test for your and your baby

Postnatal exercises and pelvic floor exercises

Emotional health in pregnancy and after giving birth

Contraception after having a baby

Perineal tears and episiotomy in childbirth

Third and fourth degree tears

Recovery after your caesarean section

Jaundice in newborn babies

Tongue tie

Separation of tongue tie

BCG and your baby

Group B strep in babies

Early onset bacterial infection in newborn babies

Special care: ill or premature babies

A parent’s guide to consent on the Neonatal Unit

Infant crying and how to cope

Family information service

Baby resuscitation

The Lullaby Trust: safer sleep for babies and support for families

The Lullaby Trust's parents' guide to safer sleep for babies

Baby and you and your breastfeeding journey

Breastfeeding support, expressing your breast milk, cup and syringe feeding

Gloucestershire breastfeeding support network

Bottle feeding

Preparing for twins or triplets

Feeding twins and more

How to get twins (or more) to sleep

Information about miscarriage

Early miscarriage

Surgical management of miscarriage

Maternity bereavement support service

Information and support following the loss of your baby before completion of 24 weeks gestation

Information for parents who have suffered a stillbirth or neonatal death

Information and support about stillbirth

Taking your baby home following their death

You can find pregnancy health information in other languages from the following national organisations:

• MAMA Academy provide essential information about pregnancy
• Public Health England provide information about screening tests for you and your baby
• Tommy's provide information on monitoring your baby's movements
• Labour Pains provide information about pain relief for labour and information about caesarians
• Action on pre-eclampsia provide information about pre-eclampsia
• UNICEF provide information about breastfeeding, formula feeding and sterilising feeding equipment
• The Lullaby Trust provide information on safe sleeping for babies

If English is not your first language

Please speak to the staff who can arrange for an interpreter to help you. Alternatively please contact us for further advice.

If you have a visual or hearing impairment

To help us provide the best care and for our staff to understand your needs, if you are coming into hospital and you have a hearing or visual impairment, please let us know as soon as possible.

If you are staying overnight, with your permission our staff could display an eye or ear pictogram by your bedside. This will help those who are caring for you understand your communication needs. 

British Sign Language interpreters can also be arranged to support you during your visit or stay.

In partnership with Gloucestershire Deaf Association (GDA) we launched Deaf Communication Cards in 2017. For more information or to obtain your card, please contact admin@gda.org.uk or call 01452 372999.