Additional support
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You can find useful information and support on this page such as how to stop smoking, contact details for bereavement support and more.
Stopping smoking will help both you and your baby immediately.
Our maternity department at Whipps Cross Hospital has launched its new tobacco dependence service for pregnant women wanting to quit smoking.
You can be referred to the service by any healthcare professional or you can choose to self-refer at any point in your pregnancy.
If you would like more information or to make a referral please contact Jozan -Tobacco Dependence midwife at Whipps Cross via email or Quit Right Waltham Forest on 02078828230 / 08001691943 or visit: www.quitrightwf.org
Find out what delayed (or opitmal) cord clamping (DCC) is and how it can benefit you child.
A hard copy of this booklet will be provided before you and your baby are discharged. It includes important information about caring for your baby at home (you will also be able to access an electronic version here shortly)
This leaflet will provide you with important information about feeding your baby
We work very closely with Community Groups who will be able to support you regarding feeding your baby once discharged from the hospital.
If you’re looking for information on safe sleep, slings and baby carriers you can visit the websites below:
Find out the benefits of antenatal colostrum harvesting.
This website provides advice for parents, young people and pregnant women, and clinical resources to support healthcare professionals – which means that your child is likely to receive consistently high-quality care, irrespective of which healthcare professional they see.
This Baby Buddy app is a free go-to pregnancy and parenting app developed by the UK charity Best Beginnings. The information is trustworthy and evidence-based.
Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar (glucose) that develops during pregnancy and usually disappears after giving birth.
Read how gestational diabetes can affect your pregnancy.
Maternity Bereavement Services
Our Rosebud bereavement suites enable parents to have time with their baby throughout their stay. They provide a private and quiet space but located within the delivery suite to enable ongoing care from midwifery staff and with the facilities of double bed, bathroom and kitchenette. During your stay in our Rosebud Suites, midwives will encourage you to spend time as a family, with the opportunity to have baby by the bedside in one of our cots according to your wish.
If you wish, our midwives can offer help and support with creating memories such as taking hand and footprints, photographs, memory boxes and teddy bears.
An annual Service of Remembrance is held each year by our Trust- for further details please contact our Chaplaincy Team by calling 02035942070. A Baby Loss Awareness Week (BLAW) takes place between 9 –15 October each year and offers a wonderful opportunity to bring people who have been affected by baby loss together as a community, so that they know that they are not alone. For further details please contact our Bereavement Midwives, Sibilla Grasso and Rhiannan Bartlett can be contacted on 07944106645/ 02085356835, Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm.
The Women’s Health research team at Whipps Cross Hospital is made up of two dedicated research midwives (Prudence and Sophie). We run multiple studies researching topics in women’s health, covering gynaecology and obstetrics.
If you want to take part in any of our research studies, please feel free to get in touch. Here are the research studies that we are currently recruiting for: