Planning your pregnancy
Wessex Healthier Together Website
The more you know about your pregnancy and your options, the more you are likely to feel in control. The information given here is based on The Pregnancy Book, which your midwife should give you at your first appointment.
Before you are pregnant
Your pregnancy and labour
- 37-40 weeks pregnantHow the baby develops
- 0-8 weeks pregnant
- 9-12 weeks pregnant
- 13-16 weeks pregnant
- 17-20 weeks pregnant
- 21-24 weeks pregnant
- 25-28 weeks pregnant
- 29-32 weeks pregnant
- 33-36 weeks pregnant
- 40+ weeks pregnant
- Your health in pregnancy
- Common health problems
- Antenatal care and classes
- Choosing where to have your baby
- Labour and birth
- When pregnancy goes wrong
You and your baby
General pregnancy topics
- Rights and benefits
- Make some decisions
- If you have a long-term condition (such as diabetes or high blood pressure)
Wessex Healthier Together Website
The Wessex Healthier Together Website is a fantastic source of information for improving the health of children and young people in Dorset.The 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.
Please click on the link Healthier Together Website to access the wide range of information and resources.
Newly Pregnant..... Please contact the surgery to arrange a routine telephone appointment with the GP to discuss next steps and referral to Midwife. Please call the team on 01202 974700. Please also visit the NHS website for more information on pregnancy.
Maternity Matters in Dorset
Get ready for your new arrival!! Maternity Matters is a new website to help guide you through pregnancy, birth and beyond in Dorset.
Click on the link to help you with: Maternity Matters Website
- Self referral to maternity services
- help decide where to have your baby
- find what's available in your local area
- dedicated section for dads and partners
- Free access to DadPad app
Parentline
ParentLine is a new confidential text messaging service providing parents and carers of 0-5 year olds in Dorset to seek advice from our Health Visiting team about their child’s health and development via text message.
Parents and carers can seek advice about a range of issues such as breastfeeding, bottle feeding, weaning, sleep, toileting, minor illness, behaviour, parenting and more.
ParentLine will run 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding weekends and bank holidays) with a ParentLine Practitioner responding to messages within one working day. If a text is sent outside these hours the parent/carer will receive an automated message with advice on where to get help if they require it urgently. This new messaging service is being provided in addition to the current Health Visiting service offer.
Text 07312 277162 for confidential advice and support from a member of the Health Visiting team
ParentLine is not an emergency service, for urgent medical attention contact your GP, 111 or 999.
Steps to Wellbeing Mums Matter
Steps2Wellbeing are offering a free group to new mums with children under 2 years old. Babies up to 9 months or pre-crawling are welcome. Please click on the link below for more information on days and times and referral details.
ICON COPE
About ICON
The idea for the ICON programme and the different interventions within it was conceived by Dr Suzanne Smith PhD following a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship to USA and Canada in 2016 which included the study of effective interventions and research into the prevention of Abusive Head Trauma (AHT). Research suggests that some lose control when a baby’s crying becomes too much. Some go on to shake a baby with devastating consequences. Suzanne found that the most effective evidence-based programmes studied provide a simple message that supports parents/caregivers to cope with infant crying.
Apart from preventing AHT, most people who have ever cared for a baby appreciate some advice about how to comfort a crying baby and how to cope when it goes on for a long time.
What ICON stands for
ICON is all about helping people who care for babies to cope with crying. Speak to someone if you need support such as your family, friends, midwife, GP or health visitor.
Click on the link for more information
Infant crying is normal:Comforting methods can help:It’s OK to walk away: Never ever shake a baby