Postnatal Information for Parents
When you and baby are ready for discharge from hospital we will update your community midwife and GP and inform them that you are going home.
Please make sure that we have your correct GP surgery, discharge address and phone number before you leave. Your community midwife will either visit you at home or arrange to see you at a postnatal clinic on the day after your discharge (7 days a week).
Please access the leaflets below for the information you will need in the first few weeks, and the links below if you need extra help.
The below are internal links
- Maternity Contacts - if you need to get in touch with us
- Help and Support - details of other organisations and extra support available for you and your family
- Help us to improve - please leave some feedback about your experience of our services.
Information Leaflets
Follow the links below to help you to look after yourself and your baby safely in the days and weeks ahead.
About Mum
All the links below link to a PDF
- Postnatal Care Information Booklet LMS
- English Covid Postnatal Discharge Letter
- Arabic Covid Postnatal Discharge Letter
- Czech Covid Postnatal Discharge Letter
- French Covid Postnatal Discharge Letter
- Polish Covid Postnatal Discharge Letter
- Urdu Covid Postnatal Discharge Letter
- Mothers Discharge information home
- Exercise and advice following the birth of your baby
- Exercise and advice following the caesarean birth of your baby
- Pain relief during pregnancy and after birth
About baby
All the links below link to a PDF on an external website.
- Discharge home information for babies who are bottle fed
- Discharge home information for babies who are breast fed
- Breast and Bottle Feeding (translations)
- Registering your baby’s birth
- Caring for your baby at night UNICEF
- Infant Crying and How to Cope ICON
- Safe Sleep Lullaby Trust
- Safe Sleep Lullaby Trust (translations)
- Illness in newborn babies leaflet NHS
- Illness in newborn babies leaflet NHS (translations)
- Coronavirus Parent Information for Newborn Babies NHS
- Coronavirus Parent Information for Newborn Babies NHS (translations)
- Jaundice in the Newborn, Information for parents and carers
