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If you are using this website to choose where to have your baby, we recommend that you use the checklist as this will guide you through the process of making your birth choices.

 

BirthChoiceUK Professional is a section of the website for those working with women making maternity choices.


Birth Choices

Maternity Unit Details

Useful Information

The checklist forms the backbone to this site. Follow it through to derive the full benefit of this website.

Checklist
Answer these questions to give yourself an idea of your wishes for the birth of your baby.

Hopes for your birth
Help with making decisions about your birth plans.

Decision making
Explains the different sorts of maternity care.

Structure of maternity care
Help with booking your maternity care.

Booking maternity care
What are independent midwives?

Independent midwives
Find out about home births.

Home birth
How to choose a hospital.

Birth in a maternity units
Maternity statistics for UK maternity units.

Find the maternity statistics for your local unit
Contact details for UK maternity units.

Find the contact details for your local unit
Find out about home births.

Home birth statistics
Find out about home births.

Healthcare Commission's Maternity Services Performance Score
Find out about home births.

Healthcare Commission's survey of what women thought of their maternity care
A guide to maternity statistics and their meaning.

Statistics explained
How to book antenatal classes.

Antenatal classes
Medical interventions explained.

Medical interventions
MIDIRS leaflets

MIDIRS leaflets
What service can you expect and how do you complain when you do not receive it.

Maternity rights
Some suggested books.

Further reading
Review of research on aspects of childbirth.

Research
Links to useful organisations.

Links
References cited on this site.

References
About the site and its authors.

About this site
How to contact us.

Contact us
Legal disclaimer and copyright information.
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