Labour & birth care
Good birth support is a key component of a good birth experience
If you’re planning a home birth we can provide your labour & birth care. If you are planning a hospital birth or a planned caesarean section, we can be by your side to provide non-clinical support and to advocate for you.
We provide birth care to women who have had least some level of antenatal care with us, because we believe it’s important to build a trusting relationship with the people who are going to be supporting and caring for you during your labour & birth experience. Continuity of care is what supports good, positive outcomes for women, birthing people & their babies.
What we offer
- A midwife on call 24/7 for you from 37 weeks
- Labour & birth care if you choose to birth at home
- 2 midwives at your home birth
- Advocacy & non-clinical support for your hospital birth or planned caesarean birth
- Individualised, evidence-based labour care
- Birth pool
- Biomechanics for birth
- Entonox (gas & air)
- Aromatherapy
- Tens machine
- We bring all the equipment we need & clean up afterwards
- We always carry emergency equipment & medication
- In the rare event they occur, we are trained to deal with obstetric and neonatal emergencies
A note on insurance...
We are legally required to hold indemnity insurance to provide labour & birth care – even if you choose to give birth in hospital and we are not providing your clinical care in labour. It is a stipulation of our indemnity insurance provider that two ZEST registered midwives are present at a home birth. The insurance currently costs approximately £1600 and is included in the price of our listed care packages.
More information about ZEST can be found here.
Payment plans are available – we will discuss and agree this with you when you book your care with us.