Patient resources

Inducing labour with a Foley balloon catheter

When your waters break before labour starts (pre labour rupture of membranes)

What are my options if my baby is breech?

Monitoring your blood pressure at home during and after pregnancy

Vitamin K and your baby

Listening to your baby’s heart during labour (fetal heart monitoring)

When you are at risk of delivering your baby early (Prematurity Prevention Clinic)

Obstetric cholestasis (OC): a liver condition during pregnancy causing itching

Monitoring low blood platelet count in pregnancy

Checking your beta-hCG hormone levels in early pregnancy

Screening in pregnancy for Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome

Ramadan fasting in pregnancy

Choosing to breastfeed your baby safely when you are HIV positive

When you have a low PAPP-A result in pregnancy

Care in pregnancy and after your baby is born when you have hepatitis B

Risks from medicines containing valproate during pregnancy

Treatment with heparin injections (Fragmin®) during pregnancy

Note: please do not use this information unless authorised by a member of your health care team.

Newborn hearing screening

The newborn hearing screening test helps identify babies who have permanent hearing loss as early as possible. This means parents can get the support and advice they need right from the start.