Birth Facilities
The Birth Place is a Midwife-led unit (MLU). It provides a welcoming, supportive environment for women and their families in comfortable homely surroundings. Our team of highly skilled midwives and maternity support workers will provide one to one care to women who have experienced a low-risk pregnancy.
Situated at Medway Maritime Hospital, Level 4 Green Zone, The Birth Place is staffed by experienced midwives who specialise in normal birth; no doctors are based within the unit, but it offers the reassurance of delivery suite being just down the corridor should there be any concerns.
The unit has five en-suite birth rooms, two with birth pools and offers the use of birthing aids (balls, bean bags, mats). There is a music system in each room and soft lighting and lamps.
| Latest Covid-19 update | COVID-19: Update from our maternity team (medway.nhs.uk) |
| Visiting hours | Hospital information - Medway NHS Foundation Trust - (medway.nhs.uk) |
| Online referral | Self referral - Medway NHS Foundation Trust - (medway.nhs.uk) |
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| Interpreting service | n/a |
| Car Parking | Car parking - Medway NHS Foundation Trust - (medway.nhs.uk) |
| Café/restaurant | Restaurant and shops (medway.nhs.uk) |
