Home Births
Good news: Our Home Birth service is resuming on 21st October 2024. Please go here to read our latest update, issued on 10th September, 2024.
Until the Home Birth Service resumes, you may wish to consider the midwife-led Birth Centre at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, which will re-open on 16th September, 2024. Alternatively, there is the Bay Birthing Unit in Singleton hospital. This is midwifery-led, with individual rooms and a real home-from-home environment.
Essential support partners are welcome to attend all settings when you have an initial assessment in labour.
Singleton's Midwifery Unit (The Bay Birth Unit), is open 24 Hours 7 days a week. The Bay Birth Unit follows the same model of midwifery led care as home and the freestanding midwifery unit at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, and is an option for many women. More information about this choice of birth setting is available by following this link to the Bay Birth Unit webpage.
If you want to discuss anything around the announcement or your birth options, please contact your community team, the numbers for the teams should be on your maternity record or you can follow this link for contact details for each community midwife team.
Information about the different birth settings is available here.
We would ask you make contact with us as soon as you have any signs of labour, which will help us plan your care.
Information around current maternity visiting is available here
See below for further information and useful links.
Go to the Swansea Bay Maternity Services Facebook page.
Online antenatal course
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For more information on how to access the free online antenatal course, please follow this link.
About home births
We know you feel most comfortable in your own home, so understandably you may want to give birth here.
Only around 5% of babies are born at home. But we know it can be an amazing experience for you and your family and we will support you the best we can.
We plan to always have a midwife with you throughout your labour and two midwives with you for the birth.
Transfer rates are similar to those seen in the Birth Centre at Neath Port Talbot Hospital. A quarter of first-time mums and just 8% of women who have given birth before are likely to need transferring to Singleton Hospital around the time of birth.
Need further help? This link takes you to a birth places decision leaflet.
Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth a galwadau ffôn yn y Gymraeg neu'r Saesneg. Atebir gohebiaeth Gymraeg yn y Gymraeg, ac ni fydd hyn yn arwain at oedi. Mae’r dudalen hon ar gael yn Gymraeg drwy bwyso’r botwm ar y dde ar frig y dudalen.
We welcome correspondence and telephone calls in Welsh or English. Welsh language correspondence will be replied to in Welsh, and this will not lead to a delay. This page is available in Welsh by clicking ‘Cymraeg’ at the top right of this page.