Our teams are here to support you through every step of your pregnancy journey, giving you help and advice about keeping yourself and baby healthy – and helping you prepare for everything from weird cravings to giving birth.
There’s so much information out there that it’s easy to get overwhelmed, so we have put together this simple guide about what to expect week by week, and advice about how you may be feeling, things to look out for, when we need to see you and why.
Below is a list of a number of information leaflets you may find useful both during your pregnancy and after baby has arrived.
If there’s anything you want to know that’s not covered here, please don’t hesitate to speak to us. There’s no such thing as a daft question – even when baby brain kicks in – and our expert teams are more than happy to give you advice and reassurance.
For non-urgent questions, you can contact the team via our dedicated Maternity Facebook page, our regional colleagues making up the Local Maternity and Neonatal System, or the Maternal Medicine Network.
Useful websites and external patient leaflets
Before you book in with your midwife
Where will you have your baby?
Healthy lifestyle information for pregnant women
Healthy Start vouchers booklet
Healthy Start vouchers – apply online
Screening tests for you and your baby
Booking in with your midwife
What to do if your baby’s movements reduce or stop
Maternity Exemption certificate (FW8)
Flu and Whooping Cough vaccines
Smoke free, carbon monoxide and testing your breath
Screening tests for you and your baby
Maternity Voices Partnerships North and North East Lincolnshire
Pregnant – have your Covid vaccine
Ask a Midwife – Facebook group
How to Protect your baby from RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus)
Quitting smoking is one of the best things you’ll ever do for your health
When you smoke, your baby smokes
Swap and Stop – Let’s treat tobacco dependancy
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) information on tobacco dependency
Support available from the North Lincolnshire Healthy Lifestyle team
Live Well North Lincolnshire – stop smoking support
Antenatal
Blood groups and red cell antibodies in pregnancy
Giving birth after previously having a Caesarean Section
Having a planned Caesarean Section
I don’t want to receive blood products
Turning your baby if they’re in the breech position (External Cephalic Version)
Low lying placenta – what this means for you and your baby
Antenatal – 16 weeks
Breastfeeding – the importance of relationship building:
Meeting your baby for the first time:
Breastfeeding: the early days:
D Negative mothers – blood test to check your unborn baby’s blood group
Mothers and others – a guide to help answer your questions
Kicks count – checking your baby’s movement
Building a Happy Baby – a guide for parents
Feeding your baby
Having your baby – planning for giving birth
Postnatal – Looking after your baby
Newborn Bloodspot screening programme
Registering your baby’s birth – make an appointment online
Find your local register office
ICON – help with coping with crying
Coping with crying (easy read)
Create a coping with crying plan
Some parents find it helps to print out a poster to keep by the cot or in baby’s room. Here are some you may find useful:
Babies
Newborn Hearing Screening Programme – information sheet for parents