Juniper Midwifery Team

20/02/2022

Have made a great Homebirth Myth Buster presentation!

If you’re thinking of homebirth mention it to your Midwife at your antenatal appointment for more information about:
💊 Pain relief
🏥 Transfer to hospital
🎒 Equipment we bring
👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏽‍⚕️ Birth Attendees
🚑 Risks and Benefits for YOU

30/11/2021

🌟UHSussex (BSUH) maternity weekly update: Week of 29th November 2021 (RSCH and PRH).

📎No changes this week.

➡️ Midwife clinics

🔹attend on your own.
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➡️ MAU/Triage

✅ One well support person when you come in to be assessed in early labour.
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➡️ Labour ward/delivery suite

✅ Your birth support person (the same person) stays with you all through labour and birth (including when you have a synthetic oxytocin drip to augment or start labour) and until you transfer to postnatal ward.
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➡️ Caesarean birth
✅ Your same birth support person if there are no complications.
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➡️ Antenatal and Postnatal ward
✅ Your SAME birth support person, NINE hours a day: 10am - 7pm
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➡️ Inpatient induction of labour (the stage BEFORE you labour/are put on a synthetic oxytocin drip) or any other procedures.
🔹attend on your own unless otherwise agreed
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➡️ Obstetric appointments
✅ One support person.
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➡️ All scans (except presentation or epac scans)
✅ One support person.
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➡️ Any other appointments (such as vaccinations, pre-op before a C-section, Anti-D, bloods with Midwife etc)
🔹attend on your own.
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❗️Please note: the birth support person must be the same person throughout.
❗️No children permitted to any appointments or hospital wards.
⚠️ If the clinical areas become too busy, we may need to ask your support person to wait outside.
➡️ Please be reassured these policies are carefully reviewed weekly.

15/10/2021

13/08/2021

⚪️ UHSussex Maternity HOMEBIRTH SERVICE (legacy BSUH Maternity)

⚠️ Important announcement ⚠️

Due to the current strain on NHS services during the Covid-19 Pandemic, the UHSussex Maternity Homebirth service, which serves the RSCH and PRH areas will now need to be reviewed daily.

We have not suspended our Homebirth service, but we will have to assess the situation day by day.

We want to prepare you that you may be informed that we cannot safely attend you at home.

We understand that this may be extremely disappointing if you have planned a homebirth. This has been a hard decision for us, but our aim is to keep the service running as much as we can without suspending the service altogether.

We encourage you to call MAU/Triage as planned when you feel your labour may have started, and we will then individually plan with you where we can support you when you are giving birth. If we cannot facilitate a homebirth service at the time you are in established labour and needing Midwifery care, we will ask you to attend labour ward at hospital. This decision has been made with your safety as our absolute priority.

We will do everything we can to support your birth wishes by providing a home from home environment as best we can if you are asked to attend the labour wards.

We will continue to review this daily as our top priority. We appreciate your support and understanding at this extremely challenging time.

Please keep checking for regular updates on the situation.

Thank you

UHSussex Maternity (Legacy BSUH Maternity)
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath

*Please note that we cannot reply to comments or messages on our social media platforms.

🔹Please direct any questions or concerns to our dedicated Covid-19 Midwife led email address:

➡️ uhsussex.e.midwife@nhs.net

07/08/2021

Juniper baby ✨

“A massive thank you to the Juniper team. As a first time expectant mother during the pandemic my husband & I were anxious about pregnancy as well as the labour. However, we got lucky that we were taken care by the Juniper team. Chloe was my midwife and I can’t thank her enough for her patience to answer my myriad questions. From the day I met Chloe, I was quite sure that I am in the right hands. She is 10/10 and she knows her job so well. I am her fan for life.

Even-though I didn’t have the labour I was expecting, and it ended up in emergency c-section, I continued to stay calm & composed because of Lynn’s support. She was blessing in a disguise & on 4th Feb, I delivered a beautiful healthy baby boy!

Big thank you to Chloe, Lynn & Juniper team. ❣️❣️
Surbhi & Dipen”

Thank you so much for sharing these lovely words 💕

27/07/2021

Juniper baby ✨

“I wanted to say a huge thank to the Junpier Team for supporting me through my pregnancy and the birth of our little girl Thea. Our midwife Chloe was so supportive and really helped me get over my anxiety of having a bad birth experience like I did with my first. I was worried due to the pandemic that I would not get the birth I wanted, and Chloe really put my mind at ease. Chloe was always quick to respond to my concerns. I also wanted to say a thank you to Chloe’s student midwife Beth. My elective c-section was an amazing experience, and it was great to have a midwife with me that I had met at the “Meet the Midwives” video call.”

Thank you for sharing this with us 💕

10/07/2021

Juniper baby ✨
One of our recent home birth stories, thank you so much for sharing your experience 💕

“I feel so lucky to have received such brilliant care from the Juniper team. Sam was my midwife antenatally and she gave me so much time and care during my appointments, which I really appreciated. It was lovely seeing the same person every time as well. During my labour I was looked after by Sam and then Dawn, and both were incredible - kind, skilled, reassuring and continuously encouraging. I was able to give birth at home, which I’m not sure I’d have managed without the support of the Juniper team. Immediately after the birth I was looked after by Hannah, who handled everything so calmly and competently when I had to transfer into hospital to have the placenta removed.

Having received such wonderful midwifery care throughout my pregnancy, birth and postnatal period, I now appreciate more than ever the positive and lasting impact of continuity of care”.

10/06/2021

Juniper baby ✨

“Honestly I'm not very good at things like this. All I can say is how amazing my care was during pregnancy with you through to labour and after, I honestly couldn't have had a better midwife team xx"

Thank you for sharing these lovely words and beautiful pictures of your baby being born 💕

24/05/2021

One of our Juniper babies enjoying some gorgeous snuggles 🥰

10/05/2021

Do download the maternity notes app- now known as Badger Notes- to be ready for when you are giving birth or are admitted to hospital. You won’t be able to register on the app until you are admitted to hospital or are having your baby (unless your pregnancy has been booked after February 2021). Continue bringing your paper notes if you still have them, to every appointment.

07/05/2021

Juniper baby ✨

Looking back at a lovely experience from January when home births were suspended for a period of time.
Thank you for sharing your story 💕

05/05/2021

⚡️Exciting news: BSUH Maternity goes DIGITAL! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

➡️ Changeover happens on Wednesday 5th May: 11am

🦡 Anyone accessing hospital based or homebirth care after this point, will have their care records started on our new Badgernet maternity system.

🦡 If you are still pregnant you continue with your paper notes until you access inpatient or homebirth care.

🦡 But please do download the maternity app (the name will change to Badger notes from the 10th May) so that you are ready.

🦡 Link to the app: in our bio.

❗️Don’t want to use the app or website access? No problem, your Midwife will print your copies of your care.

16/04/2021

Juniper baby ✨

“I was very lucky to have the Juniper midwifery team support me through my pregnancy, labor, birth and aftercare. Sam was my amazing midwife, who saw me consistently through my pregnancy. She answered all my anxieties, and made me feel calmer after leaving every appointment. I was lucky enough to also have Sam support me through my labor, which was helpful as she already knew my situation. The lovely Sarah helped me manage my contractions, didn’t let me give up and then delivered my darling baby Orla. The aftercare was also fantastic, having contact with the other Juniper midwives who came into my home and made sure everything was ok, and let us know we were doing an amazing job.

Thankyou so so much to Juniper midwives, you’re all amazing and I am so grateful to have had you support me bringing my baby girl into the world. Niamh x”.

Thank you for sharing your story 💕

10/04/2021

Up on labour ward in Brighton and getting one of our rooms ready for its next new arrival.
There are some lovely birth affirmations and home touches to create a positive birth space and make it your own✨

08/04/2021

A Juniper baby ✨ born over the Easter weekend.

“Only having a baby 10 months ago I can’t believe what a totally different experience this pregnancy was regarding the amount of care, time and attention that was put in, from the start any issues or concerns I had Issey was just at the end off the phone.

When my waters broke at 35+3 I was anxious and scared, I contacted Dawn that told me if I went into labour someone from the Juniper team would be there to look after me. I was then induced at 36 weeks and the Juniper team was there straight away.

Sam was at the beginning of my induction and explained everything to me to stop me being anxious delivering a preterm after two previous full term spontaneous births.

Then Lynn took over the night shift helping me through every contraction, making sure I was comfortable nothing was too much for her and she went above and beyond resulting in the safe delivery of my daughter Luna weighing 6lb 3oz on 3-4-21.

Thank you to the Juniper team and a special thank you to Lynn I definitely couldn’t of done it without you”.

04/04/2021

Happy Easter from the Juniper Midwifery Team and this gorgeous little Juniper bunny 🐰
We hope you have a lovely day.

03/04/2021

Juniper baby ✨

“I found the Juniper team, especially Chloe very helpful when pregnant for the 1st time whilst going through the covid situation.

Motherhood is the best feeling in the world, I have never felt love like it ❤️”.

Thank you for sharing your experience 💕

30/03/2021

As one midwife left the day shift yesterday to a beautiful sunset, another midwife leaves the night shift to a wonderful sunrise.