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Find services near where you live to help support you, your pregnancy, and your family.
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Birth centres
St Peters Midwife-led Unit
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, St Peter Street, Margate, Kent, CT9 4AN
Triage Unit/Maternity Day Care: 01843 234483
St Peters Midwife-led Unit: 01843 235100
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Singleton Midwife-led Unit
William Harvey Hospital, Kennington Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 0LZ
Triage Unit/Maternity Day care/Fetal Medicine: 01233 616638
Singleton Midwife-led Unit: 01233 651868
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The midwife-led unit is located within the hospital at Ashford (Singleton) and is located close to the consultant-led 'traditional' labour wards. This unit is run by midwives to encourage and support normal birth. It is equipped with two birth pools offering the use of water for pain relief and/or water birth. There are facilities to support more upright positions when you are in labour, as well as space to move around such as birth balls, mats, and wall bars.
Maidstone Birth Centre
Hermitage Lane, Maidstone, Kent, ME16 9QQ
Phone: 01622 220160 or 01622 220161
For urgent concerns contact the Maternity Triage on 01892 633500
Crowborough Birth Centre
Crowborough Birth Centre, Southview Road, Crowborough, East Sussex, TN6 1HB
For URGENT concerns contact the Maternity Triage on 01892 633500
The Birth Place
Windmill Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 5WY
Call the Midwife: 01634 825277
Phone The Birth Place: 01634 825199
The Birth Centre
Darent Valley Hospital, Darenth Wood Road, Dartford, Kent, DA2 8DA
24-hour phone line: 01322 424925 or 01322 428930
Description:
The Birth Centre is located within Aspen Ward, on level three of the hospital. The team of midwives and support staff endeavour to provide a holistically satisfying experience within a peaceful less medicalised atmosphere, for women during their labour and postnatal period.
There is a triage room, two delivery rooms with plumbed in birthing pools and a dry room, for those not wishing to use water. In labour there are birthing balls, stalls and couches to encourage a mobile upright birth. The four bedded postnatal bay is there for your stay following delivery of your baby.
Obstetric units
Darent Valley Hospital
Darent Valley Hospital, Darenth Wood Road, Dartford, Kent DA2 8DA
Phone: 24-hour Maternity Assessment Unit: 01322 428280 or 01322 428278
The Delivery Suite consists of a reception area with comfortable seating for women and their birthing partners. There are eight delivery rooms, included in this are one high dependency room and one birth pool room, two obstetric theatres and a two-bedded recovery room.
Medway Maritime Hospital
Windmill Road, Gillingham, Kent ME7 5NY
Call the Midwife: 01634 825277
Delivery Suite: 01634 825278
Medway's maternity service is one of the largest in Kent, delivering around 5,000 babies a year. This comprises obstetric led care in the delivery suite and midwife-led care at The Birth Place. As well as actively supporting home birth for women with uncomplicated pregnancies. Women and their partners giving birth at the hospital are offered personalised support to help them to have the best possible experience of pregnancy, delivery and recovery period.
Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, St Peter Street, Margate, CT9 4AN
Triage Unit/Maternity Day Care: 01843 234483
Delivery suite: 01843 292494
Tunbridge Wells Hospital
Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Tonbridge Road, Pembury, Kent TN2 4QJ
Urgent clinical concerns phone 01892 633500. This line is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Non-clinical queries phone Midwifery Liaison Office on 01892 638158. This line is available Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4pm.
If you have urgent concerns, such as reduced fetal movements, bleeding or pain contact the Maternity Triage on 01892 633500
The delivery suite at Tunbridge Wells Hospital has modern spacious rooms with en-suite facilities, climate control for your comfort and lighting dimmers for a calming birthing environment. It is suitable for women with both midwife-led pregnancies and those who require closer monitoring.
William Harvey Hospital
William Harvey Hospital, Kennington Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 OLZ
Triage Unit / Maternity Day care / Fetal Medicine: 01233 616638
Delivery Suite: 01233 616124
The consultant-led unit at the William Harvey Hospital offers specialised obstetric care for women with complications, as well as for those who would prefer to give birth where there is immediate access to specialist services.