Medway Maternity

10/05/2026

The final day of maternal mental health awareness week. How to build a bond with your baby.

09/05/2026

This maternal mental health week we have been sharing insights into perinatal mental health, today we want to talk about two hormones cortisol and oxytocin.
We need some stress hormone to help keep us ready to take action against danger, fight-flight hormone, but too much is counterproductive for other hormones such as Oxytocin the love hormone

08/05/2026

What’s a Mother and Baby Unit (MBU)? 💜

A Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) is a specialist NHS unit where mums and parents with serious mental illness during pregnancy or after birth get expert care, without being separated from their baby.

MBUs offer:
• Mental health support
• Help with bonding and feeding
• Family and peer support
• A specialist team who understand how to support your recovery, with your baby

Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) has a number of peer support projects embedded in MBUs run by NHS Trusts, offering lived-experience support for families going through postpartum psychosis.

Find out more about APP’s peer support in the NHS, or get in touch if you are interested in having an APP peer support project where you work, if you are an MBU member of staff: https://ow.ly/8pbp50VN8J4

08/05/2026

This maternal mental health awareness week we have been sharing some insight into the different mental health difficulties you might experience in the perinatal period.
Today we are shedding light on a rare but severe form of mental illness postpartum (postnatal) psychosis.

on postpartum psychosis have more information and reosurces www.app.network.org

08/05/2026

We offer drop in vaccination clinics to help protect you and your baby.
Whooping cough and RSV vaccinations available.

Where:
Antenatal Department, Green Zone, Level 2

When:
Mondays, 9am to 5pm
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 9am to 5pm
Alternate Saturdays, 9am to 4pm

Vaccination Clinic Opening Dates for the remainder of May:
• Monday 11th, 18th
• Wednesday 13th, 20th, 27th
• Thursday 14th, 21st, 28th
• Friday 15th, 22nd, 29th
• Saturday 9th, 23rd

No appointment needed.

Clinics do not run on Bank Holidays.

08/05/2026

We’re super excited to announce that our Welcome to Core and Pelvic Floor classes now have monthly dates until the end of the year.

Please book in plenty of time as spaces are limited for these courses.

This is a great addition to any of our other antenatal education courses.

If you’re looking for a spot on our other courses we have release overflow dates for the Full Day Weekend courses on:
13th June
20th June

Our next Welcome to Parenthood online course is:
22nd May

Our next Welcome to Feeding online course is:
16th May

All can be booked on the link here: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/eventlist?aid=17696

Any questions please email us on: medwayft.antenataleducation@nhs.net

07/05/2026

Today for maternal mental health week we are talking about perinatal depression

06/05/2026

Today for maternal mental health awareness week we are thinking about Anxiety in the perinatal period.

05/05/2026

This week is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, Team Lotus our maternity MH team will be sharing some resources and information to help you through pregnancy and beyond.

We are starting with Baby Blues

01/05/2026

If you are prescribed Sertraline please check the batch number on the packet if they are on this recall alert do not take them and return to your local pharmacy to exchange them.
The recall is not for all only a certain brand and batch number V2500425

⚠️ Medicines recall: Sertraline 100mg Film-Coated Tablets (Amarox Limited)

One batch of Sertraline 100mg film-coated tablets is being recalled as a precaution after a manufacturing error.

This follows a patient complaint which identified that a pack of Sertraline 100mg tablets (Batch V2500425) incorrectly contained blister strips of Citalopram 40mg film-coated tablets inside the sealed carton.

If you take Sertraline 100mg, check the packaging of your medicine for batch number V2500425. If your pack contains blister strips labelled "Citalopram 40mg", contact your pharmacy as soon as possible.

Both sertraline and citalopram are antidepressants from the same medicine family (SSRIs). Patients who have accidentally taken citalopram instead of - or as well as - sertraline may experience some heightened side effects, including nausea, headache, sleep changes, and mild anxiety.

If you have concerns about your medication or experience any suspected side effects, speak to your pharmacist or another healthcare professional. Patients and healthcare professionals can also report suspected side effects via our Yellow Card scheme.

For more information, visit https://brnw.ch/21x26gl

23/04/2026

If you haven’t yet managed to get a space on our Welcome to Parenthood Antenatal Courses, we currently have a few spots available on:

Saturday 2nd May - Full Day Course
Saturday 30th May - Full Day Course

And look out for 2 new course dates for June and 1 for July, coming soon!

Worried about feeding your baby? Want to know more about colostrum harvesting? Maybe your baby might go to the Neonatal Unit or you have Diabetes and you want to know more about how your feeding journey might look?

Our next Welcome to Feeding Online course is Saturday 16th May.

All can be booked here: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/eventlist?aid=17696

Or on the QR code below.

Any further queries please contact us on: Medwayft.antenataleducation@nhs.net