South Tees Maternity Services

16/10/2025

💚🤍Meet the Midwife - Amy🤍💚

Hello, my name is Amy. I am a bereavement midwife on central delivery suite. It is a honour and privilege to guide and support families through the birth of their babies, who will never be forgotten. Every delivery and family I look after hold a special place in my heart.
The team and myself find it very important that we create a safe space, lasting memories and provide care that is tailored to individual families beliefs and wishes.
Your baby is important, a lasting legacy and never forgotten.

15/10/2025

🕯️💫At 7pm this evening we will join the global Wave of Light, in honor of all the beautiful babies gone too soon 💫🕯

🤍we remember the babies born sleeping
💛we remember the babies carried but never held
💗we remember the babies held who did not go home
💙we remember babies who went home but could not stay

14/10/2025

Repost •

Medical advice has changed over the last five years around how we treat mastitis.

Mastitis usually only affects 1 breast, and symptoms often come on quickly. They include:

▫️ A swollen area on your breast that may feel hot and painful to touch – the area may become red but this can be harder to see if you have black or brown skin
▫️A wedge-shaped breast lump or a hard area on your breast
▫️A burning pain in your breast that might be constant or only when you breastfeed
▫️Nipple discharge, which may be white or contain streaks of blood
▫️You may also get flu-like symptoms, such as aches, a high temperature, chills and tiredness

Visit the NHS website to find out more: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/mastitis/

14/10/2025

💛🤍Meet the Midwife - Tina 💕

Hello my name is Tina and I am a member of the South Tees Bereavement Team. As a member of the team, I walk alongside families during some of the most unimaginable and heartbreaking moments of their lives, and to be trusted during these vulnerable moments of a family's life is a privilege. Providing support and care with compassion, dignity and respect and helping families create lasting memories with their babies is at the heart of why I choose this role.

It is an honour and a privilege to be part of these babies stories, and although there’s a great deal of sadness, the strength, bravery and love showed by these families never fails to amaze me.

I am grateful to be part of such an amazing team and for the chance to try and make a difference in making the journey for these families even just a little more bearable. I’ve learned how powerful it is just to sit with someone in their pain, listening, not offering answers, only empathy and the importance of providing emotional support, comfort, reassurance and sometimes just a hand to hold.

So to every family and every precious baby I have had the privilege of caring for, you are in my thoughts this week and always - your babies are never forgotten 🤍

14/10/2025

Happening tomorrow 💞💫⭐️

Tomorrow morning, in a change to our usual neonatal group, we’re hosting our rainbow baby session.

We’ve organised a gentle morning of memory making for families who want to create something special for their baby in the stars with their little one.

We know how hard it can be to navigate creating space for your grief whilst adapting to having your baby following your loss, at home with you.

On hand tomorrow will be Lottie, for those who need some support, a hug, and some help with memory making.

The session will run from 10-11:30am at West Middlesbrough Family Hub.

14/10/2025

💚🤍Navigating Grief After Pregnancy or Baby Loss 🤍💚
If you are grieving the loss of your baby, please know there is no timeline for your grief. The journey is uniquely yours, and the right time to seek support is when you feel ready.

Thanks to generous donations, we have been able to welcome Francesca to the Snowdrop Team. She is here to offer the compassionate, specialist support you deserve.

💛🤍 Hello, I'm Francesca and I am the Maternity Bereavement Counsellor for South Tees. I provide emotional and therapeutic support to individuals or couples who have experienced the loss of a baby during pregnancy or birth. It’s a privilege to offer a safe, compassionate space where clients can express their grief and process their loss and emotions at their own pace. I value the opportunity to empower clients in creating their own individual way to navigate their grief.

The incredible team of Bereavement Midwives offer such compassionate and person-centred care during a families' time in hospital, having the counselling service available allows support to be continued. I am grateful to be part of such a devoted team, who are all committed to providing care during such a difficult time in someone's life. 🤍💛

13/10/2025

💛🤍 Meet the Midwife - Elena

Meet El, another one of the lovely Midwives from the Snowdrop Team 🤍💚

Hello, my name is El and I am part of the South Tees Bereavement Service. Being a member of this team is something I hold very close to my heart. I feel truly honoured to stand beside families during one of life’s hardest and most powerful journeys. Every family I meet teaches me something about strength, love, and the unbreakable bond between parents and their babies. I value every hand I get to hold and every moment I can offer comfort or help create lasting memories. Though the circumstances are heartbreaking, it’s a privilege to walk alongside families with gentleness, care, and compassion — ensuring their baby’s life and love are always remembered.

13/10/2025

Do you know anyone who would like a Baby Loss Certificate? 💙🤍🩷

Find out more: https://www.gov.uk/request-baby-loss-certificate

It's Baby Loss Awareness Week and many bereaved families are remembering babies they've lost 💖💙

The baby loss certificate is also available to officially acknowledge the impact of pregnancy loss, no matter how long ago.

Find out more: https://www.gov.uk/request-baby-loss-certificate

You can request a certificate if all the following apply:

🔹 you’ve lost a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy (or 28 weeks before 1 October 1992)
🔹 you’re one of the baby’s parents or surrogate
🔹 you’re at least 16 years old
🔹 you live in England

13/10/2025

Our next walk in cervical screening clinic in 📍 Northallerton is on Saturday 18th October 2025 at The Friarage Hospital. You'll find us in The Women's Unit from 10am - 3pm. If you've received your reminder letter and have been putting it off, we'd love to see you there!

💫 If you've been struggling with booking an appointment, a walk in is a great way of getting your screening. Simply turn up on the day with your NHS number, and we'll do the rest.

💫 If you're anxious about your screening, our highly experienced team are on hand to support you every step of the way. You can chat to your nurse who will make adjustments to help you. Remember, you're in control and we're here to help. You can even bring a friend for support.

💫 If you're embarrassed, please don't be! We know it can feel uncomfortable and awkward, but we're a judgement free zone. We're not bothered how long it's been, whether you've waxed, or whether your socks are odd. We'll just be so pleased you came!

💫 If you're seeing this post and you've been putting it off or haven't got round to booking, take this as your sign to tick it off your to do list ✅ This is our last walk in clinic in Northallerton for 2025, so we'd love to see you there.

If this clinic doesn't suit you, check out our website yorsexualhealth.org.uk for information on other ways to access your screening through YorSexual Health.

10/10/2025

🤍💛 Meet the Midwife - Rhiannon.

Hello, my name is Rhiannon and I am part of the bereavement team on the central delivery suite at James Cook. Sadly bereavement is a side of our job and something no parent should ever have to experience with their own baby/child. This makes our role so incredibly important. As part of the bereavement team, I believe our role is to bring the parents special memories through the hardest of times. This can simply be through holding their hand, sitting and talking to them for hours, or creating memorabilia with them and their baby/babies. We understand that every family who is going through the bereavement process has different ways of coping and dealing with things, therefore the care we provide is always individualised and everything is at the parent’s pace.
This baby loss awareness week I’ll be thinking of all the babies too precious to stay and remembering the ones I had the privilege to hold 💙🤍🩷

10/10/2025

10/10/2025

💛🤍 Meet the Midwife - Sarah

I have worked as a member of the bereavement team for a number of years now. This role brings with it such a mixture of emotions, but I consider it a huge privilege.

As a member of the bereavement team, we get to support women and their families at an unimaginable time in their lives, where they welcome their babies into the world.

Our dedicated team is fabulous and focus on individual wants and wishes for each family. Our beautiful bereavement suite offers a more ‘home like’ environment and we offer services to make as many memories as possible with each family that finds themselves within our care. We understanding the extra importance for time together following birth and have a support services for parents once they are home.

Being a bereavement midwife can be challenging, but it’s such an honour it’s is to do this job! 💕