UHSussex Maternity Services

18/09/2025

✨ Sharing on behalf of Pregnancy Options Counselling Centre ✨

Baby Loss Awareness Week 2025 at Chichester Cathedral

When:
BLAW always runs 9th – 15th October. The ‘Reflect and Remember’ space will be open during the same times the Cathedral is open to the public. Monday – Saturday 9am – 5pm. Sundays 12pm-2pm.

Location:
St Clement’s Chapel, Chichester Cathedral. When you enter the Cathedral from the West Door (No.3) the Chapel is down the right hand side of the Pews, located at no6. You will hopefully see the lovely ribbons tied to the grate.

What is there?
There will be a range of ‘activities’ at the St Clement Chapel to give visitors a chance to reflect and remember.

Although this is based in a church, we want this to be a
place that all can come to and take part. There will be:
- Blue, pink and neutral coloured ribbons that can be tied to the Chapel’s grate. There will be small labels that could also be attached to the ribbon to leave a short message or name of their baby.

The ribbons will be collected by Anna/Emily (Options) at the end of the week and kept if anyone would like to collect theirs after the
week has ended.

- A prayer to say for those who would like to.
- A tealight to take away for the Wave of Light on 15th October at 7pm
- A candle stand to light a candle there as well as a large candle that will be lit the whole week.
- Information on various organisations in West Sussex who offer bereavement support and specific support for pregnancy or baby loss.
- The theme for BLAW 2025 is ‘Wear and Share with Care’ – There will be some BLAW pin badges available to take away, along with a donations box.

What do I do there?
- Simply be there as a friendly face for people as they visit the space.
- Some may want to talk, need help with the ribbon activity or want to know about support services locally.
- You may want to take this space to also reflect yourself if no one is around. Being heavily involved with bereaved parents and clients can be difficult at times.

Feel free to use this space for yourself too. ✨🤍✨

15/09/2025

🧐 Worried about the news report today about the National Maternity Enquiry in the UK?

We wanted to share with you a direct response from Emma Chambers, our Director of Midwifery at UHSussex maternity services, about the recent national and local media coverage of maternity services.

Please do speak to your community midwife if you are worried about anything you have read or seen in the news, and have a look on our UHSussex maternity website for information about our birthing statistics and improvements we continue to make in our maternity services.

This video provides a direct response from Emma Chambers, Director of Midwifery, regarding recent national and local media coverage of maternity services. It...

05/09/2025

🍎 There are many benefits to joining the NHS Healthy Start scheme.

It could take as little 5 minutes to complete the online application form.

👉See if you’re eligible to apply here:

https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIW7illeHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVBqLabIMeQWLc-6Ifz_rGDV9M4J4mm8jgHMcQugpRoJuFg2rSs9JX4yNg_aem_szJA-iAdvnn8b0aIf_knLg

05/09/2025

Thank you to everyone who sent in your first-day of-school-babies photos!

We loved seeing them 🥰🥰🥰

04/09/2025

For many, it's back to school this week. For bereaved siblings who were too young to remember their sibling alive, or for the ‘rainbow babies’ who were born after their sibling died, starting school may raise some questions.

They may notice a difference between their own concept of what a brother or sister is, compared to the children around them.

It is natural to worry about what this might be like for your child. Discover ways to support bereaved siblings 👉 https://lullabytrust.org.uk/bereavement-support/how-you-can-support-others/brothers-and-sisters/

04/09/2025

Brb Crying 😭 🥰

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They grow up so fast. 🥲

Little Aubrey and Ezra were both born at Princess Royal Hospital. Today, those tiny bundles have grown into confident little learners, ready to take on their first day of primary school and from their beaming faces, it’s clear they can’t wait to get started. 📚

Ezra’s Mum, Megan shared: “The biggest coincidence was I was in the same room and had the same midwives as my older son (in 2017), it was extra special!

“Thank you for everything you all do. See you all with my next baby!”

Aubrey’s Mum, Grace said: “It’s gone by in a flash, I can’t quite believe we’re at this point already. And since then, I’ve had two more babies at Princess Royal with the support from all the wonderful midwives and nursing staff.

“I can’t thank all the staff enough.”

Join us in wishing Aubrey and Ezra the very best on their first day of school – we know they’re going to do brilliantly. 💙

They grow up so fast. 🥲

Little Aubrey and Ezra were both born at Princess Royal Hospital. Today, those tiny bundles have grown into confident little learners, ready to take on their first day of primary school and from their beaming faces, it’s clear they can’t wait to get started. 📚

Ezra’s Mum, Megan shared: “The biggest coincidence was I was in the same room and had the same midwives as my older son (in 2017), it was extra special!

“Thank you for everything you all do. See you all with my next baby!”

Aubrey’s Mum, Grace said: “It’s gone by in a flash, I can’t quite believe we’re at this point already. And since then, I’ve had two more babies at Princess Royal with the support from all the wonderful midwives and nursing staff.

“I can’t thank all the staff enough.”

Join us in wishing Aubrey and Ezra the very best on their first day of school – we know they’re going to do brilliantly. 💙

03/09/2025

“Our vision at UHSussex maternity is...
..”to be a leading provider of maternity care, where supportive, compassionate care and kind communication create a safe, empowering and personalised experience for all families”.

Did you know that YOU helped us create our new UHSussex maternity services vision?

❓How did we develop this vision?

We used A.I. (artificial intelligence) to help us find commonly used words used by families under our care as well as our maternity staff via feedback and surveys over the last year.

Families and staff were then asked to vote on what they felt were the most important words to include within our vision.

These words were the most important to you and our staff:

✨Support
✨Compassionate
✨Kind
✨Safe
✨Empowering

🙏 Thank you for your comments, feedback, birth stories and lovely messages.

💛 Every single word is listened to.

Keep them coming!

03/09/2025

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Getting vaccinated when you’re helps protect you and your from illnesses, including & . Visit the NHS website to learn more. 💖

02/09/2025

02/09/2025

🙌 Did you have your reception year 1 baby with us?

Please send us photos of your littlies - we would love to share their day 1 as a baby and day 1 at school photos 🙏 😍😍😍

uhsussex.mybirthstory@nhs.net