Hospital the sole option for Emma and Paul
The Facts
Mums hoping to use the birth centre or opt for a home birth need to ensure safety by meeting the following critiera:
* You are booked for midwifery led care. This means that you have no complications, either medically or otherwise, that have been identified in your history, you have had a normal pregnancy and you anticipate a normal birth.
* You are having one baby in the head-down position.
* Your baby arrives between 37 and 42 weeks.
* You are between the ages of 16 and 40 years old.
* Your placenta is in a normal place.
* You have normal iron levels in your blood, and there are no concerns about your blood clotting normally.
* You have a clinically well-grown baby (on or between the 10th & 90th percentile on your own growth chart).
* You start labour naturally ideally. However, should you be induced because your baby is over your expected date and have received up to 2 prostin pessaries and started labour without any additional help, the birth centre will still be an option for you.
* You have normal blood pressure and no protein in your urine.
* You have not been diagnosed with Group B Strep infection in this pregnancy
* You have a Body Mass Index that is in the normal range.
* Your waters have been broken no more than 72 hours before labour starts on its own.
* Your baby is making normal movements.
* See www.bwhct.nhs.uk website.
