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Giving Birth at Worcestershire Royal Hospital: Worcester
Your Guide to the Maternity Unit & Birth Centre
Are you giving birth at Worcestershire Royal Hospital or in the Worcestershire area? It's normal to have questions about what services and facilities are on offer. Answering these questions will make you feel more confident and prepared as you approach birth.
This guide is designed to support you to answer those important questions about and offer information on the maternity unit, birth centre, contact numbers, virtual tours and useful information to help you plan your birth. At The Outspoken Birthworker, I support families across Worcestershire through evidence-based antenatal education, hypnobirthing and postnatal preparation, whatever birth setting you choose.
Worcestershire Royal Hospital is located in Ronkswood, Worcester. It is easily accessible from Evesham, Pershore, Droitwitch, Malvern & Redditch. It has a drop off zone outsitide of the front entrance
Address: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, WR51DD
Worcestershire Royal Hospital is the counties central hub for maternity facilities. Whiltst antenatal appointments and scans may take place in the community or at one of the other country hospitals, It is the only hospital setting in the county that facilitates birth. It provides consultant led care, midwife led care, a midwife led birth centre, antenatal, labour and postnatal wards, theatre birth, Neo Natal and Transitional Care, Bereavement care and antenatal and postnatal services.
The Meadow Birth Centre is a midwife led birth space that exists within the maternity section of the hospital. It provides a "home from home" like environment for women and birthing people. They are specifically designed with your birthing hormones in mind to support physiological birth where possible. If additional care is needed, the obstetric led unit is right next door. The Meadow Birth Centre is fully equipped with birthing pools, birth balls, dim, calming lighting and lots of space to keep active during labour.
Take a Virtual Tour of the Meadow Birth Centre Below:
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The delivery suite is staffed by midwives and obstetric doctors. It designed to care for women and birthing people who have chosen consultant led care, epidural, induction, closer monitoring or a caesarean section or instrumental birth. Birth on the delivery suite can still be calm and positive, particularly with the right birth prep and antenatal education.
Yes! Each room of the Meadow Birth Centre is equipped with a birth pool and there is a birthing pool room on the delivery suite too. It is important to be aware that use will depend on availability. For those with certain "high risk" labels, access to the birth pool may need to be discussed with the trusts consultant midwife.
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Maternity Triage - 0303 003 5599
Antenatal Clinic - 01905 760659
Meadow Birth Centre - 01905 733014
Delivery Suite - 01905 760571
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Research has shown that good antenatal education improves birth outcomes and satisfaction for women and birthing people. Making choices about your birth can be overwhelming and navigating the maternity system can be challenging. At The Outspoken Birthworker, our Birth t0 Early Parenthood: Complete Antenatal, Hypnobirthing & Postnatal Program is designed to give you a comprehensive, evidence based antenatal and postnatal education. Each section of our course is routed in fully informed decision making, birth rights and advocacy, to help you navigate those more challenging aspects of care within the NHS.