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✨Supporting you in your journey to parenthood✨
Midwifery-led care in Ireland
Promoting normal birth

29/08/2025

📢Meet Jean, our fantastic manager. Jean comes with a wealth of knowledge from our labour and birthing unit but most of all with a massive heart!

🙏Welcome Jean and thank you so much for accepting this role! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

💝We know the team will grow and develop with your problem solving ability, midwifery experience and your warm knowledgeable heart, not to mention your kind and calm nature.

🤗🤗Here's to many years ahead of working along side our team of amazing midwives to enhance the special midwifery care we offer 🥂🥂🥂🥂 #

26/08/2025

Domino Midwifery-Led Antenatal Care:

Domino_midwives host eight antenatal clinics every week in Co. Wicklow and South Dublin. Each clinic has pre allocated timed appointments so there are limited waiting times🫠.

You will be cared for by the team of midwives throughout your pregnancy journey and often meet the same midwife at your clinic appointment.😁

😍Care is tailored to the individual needs, preferences, and your personal circumstances.

🤩This care focuses on physical, emotional, and social well-being, and of course the medical aspects.

👩‍🎓We encourage you to make informed choices about your care, while providing you with education and support.

🫄Each appointment will involve the midwives ensuring you and your baby are well.
🤔If they have any concerns you can be referred to the hospital for a follow-up appointment.
🤗 Our midwives are all experienced and very knowledgeable about maternity care.
❣️ Feel free to ask lots of questions.

22/08/2025

Home birth story ✏️ What a special story we have today! Thanks so much for sharing Sebastians journey and the way you managed to birth at home.
Huge congratulations to your family.

Births are special and to facilitate these at home is extra special for all our midwifery team. They never lose their magic.

Now sit back, with a cuppa and enjoy the story! If you want to learn more about our homebirth service, email us on commw1@nmh.ie or ask one of our midwifery team at your clinic appointment.

20/08/2025

Domino_midwives understand the value of antenatal education.

💞Information is POWER

💞Our classes are small and interactive. We advise you on our top tips and of course when to seek assistance.
💞We also give you lots of information on labor & Birth: - topics like understanding labor signs, pain relief options, birth types, and making a birth choices.
💞We host a class specifically on breastfeeding where you can get free colostrumharvesting packs and breastfeeding affirmation cards.

15/08/2025

Gentle Mental Health Reminders

❣️Your feelings are valid—whatever you’re experiencing is real and important.

❣️Rest is essential, not a luxury—take breaks when you need them.

❣️It’s okay to ask for help—support is a sign of strength.

❣️Self-care is caring for your baby, too—nourish yourself.

❣️Be gentle and patient with yourself—healing and adjustment take time.

❣️You are not alone—many others have felt this way and support is available.

28/07/2025

✨ Vitamin D ✨

Vitamin D helps us build and maintain strong bones and teeth. It is recommended to give your newborn baby Vitamin D if they are breastfed or taking less than 300mls of infant formula 🤱

Speak to your midwife or a pharmacist if you have any questions 🌞

26/07/2025

We are very aware of the concerns over listeria and the recent outbreak in Ireland.
We also understand it may be a worrying time for some of our service users.

Listeria is extremely rare and unlikely that you or your baby will be affected.
However, do check in with us if you have any concerns.

04/07/2025

✍️Domino story time ✍️

"We welcomed our second baby, Oscar, at 2:45am on Tuesday the 22nd of April 2025. This was our first domino experience, and it was everything we wanted it to be - a calm and positive water birth.

As with my first, my membranes ruptured early morning on the 21st of April. Once we got ourselves organised and had our eldest collected, we headed into Holles Street shortly for the group B test (luckily negative) before heading home and doing everything possible to get labour going myself - kerb walking, Bridget Jones, dates, stair walking, a bath, expressing colostrum…! My first experience ended with induction, so I was determined this wasn’t going to happen again.

It was a good 12 hours before anything “real”started. We went back to Holles Street around 11pm and went straight to the delivery room. I consented to be checked to see where I had progressed to (and to see what baby’s position was as my last appointment showed back to back) but despite hours of contractions, I was not in established labour. It was disheartening, and despite another hour of contractions every 90 seconds - 2 minutes, I was still getting nowhere, and it was discovered my fore waters were intact. Claire offered to break them to see if this would help me dilate - I happily agreed - and within minutes, I was finally in the water. Up until this point I’d been using a tens and winner flow so the water (and gas & air) was a huge relief.
Just 30 minutes later, Oscar arrived!

Once Oscar latched, we were left to enjoy some time on our own and hot tea and toast. We then spent a short while on the ward before being discharged home in time for lunch in bed.

We had planned a home birth, but unfortunately, some critical bits and pieces only arrived a day later. Despite this, we had a wonderful experience and really want to thank Claire for her support throughout the labour and delivery, and likewise all the home visit supports from Katie, Trinity, Susie, and Clodagh

We couldn’t be happier with the domino experience. "

✨️Thank you, Ruth, for sharing your story. The team is so happy to hear you had such a positive experience with our service. Congrats on baby Oscar👶

02/07/2025

🏠Homebirth Information Evening

Are you curious about Homebirth?
Join us on the 25th of June, where you can hear about the benefits of homebirth, see the equipment we bring, and ask any questions you may have 🤰✨

Confirm your attendance by emailing;
commw1@nmh.ie

We look forward to meeting you 🤩

20/06/2025

Fun fact Friday!

The heart....It's one of the first organs to form and begin functioning....

A newborn's heart is different from an adult's heart.

❤️ An infant's heart always beats faster than that of an older child or adult.

The resting heart rate of a child and an adult is 60-100 beats per minute, while a newborns heatbeat is around 130-160 beats every minute.

❤️ A newborn's heart is only as big as a walnut.🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰

Each trimester develops your babies heart beat differently.

First Trimester:

During the first trimester, the heart rate increases and can be detected by ultrasound. By weeks 9-10, it reaches its highest rate, around 170 bpm!

Later Development:

After the first trimester, the heart rate slows down to a range of 110-160 bpm, which is the typical rate for the second and third trimesters.

Full Development:

The heart is fully formed by the 10th week of pregnancy, including the four chambers, valves, and major blood vessels.

How incredible 😲

19/06/2025

What do our community midwives think of homebirth? ✨

For low risk pregnancies home birth is as safe as hospital. Offering women choice to birth at home is central to our ethos 💫

It is a special privilege to support a woman choosing to have a homebirth 🏠✨

13/06/2025

Fun fact Friday is back....
Did you know??????

👨‍🦱👩‍🦳 Adults have 206 bones🦴🦴🦴🦴 in their bodies but babies are actually born with around 300.

🤔 Why is this the case? It’s because some of the bones in their bodies will fuse together as they get older so the number of bones will eventually go down.

☠️☠️☠️ The bones of the skull are some of the major bones that end up fusing together as your baby becomes older. To enable the the baby to find its way through the birth canal, they need to be flexible so they can mould and navigate their way to earthside!

How incredible 😲

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