Visiting times

Appointments and scans visitor information

• Your partner or support person can come with you for scans and consultant appointments. We may ask them to wait outside if our clinical areas become too busy.
• Please come alone for any appointments such as for blood tests, glucose tolerance test, pre-op assessments.
• Children may attend appointments with a community midwife or doctor but unfortunately may not attend any scan appointments.

Maternity Assessment Unit (MAU) and triage

• You can bring your support person if you’re coming in during early labour to be checked.
• Once you’re in established labour you’ll go to the labour ward and your two chosen adult birth supporters can be with you for the whole of labour and birth.
• Please come on your own if your labour is being induced, or for any other procedures.

Labour wards

• Two chosen adult birth supporters can stay through labour and birth and until it’s time for you to go to the postnatal ward.
• Only one chosen birth support person is allowed for a caesarean birth.
• Two adult birthing support persons are allowed if you’re going to the recovery area after an assisted vaginal birth, caesarean birth or if you need any care in theatre.

Antenatal and postnatal wards

• Visiting times for the birth supporter is 8am to 11pm and for the second visitor/birth support 2pm to 8pm.
• Your baby’s siblings are welcome to visit you on the antenatal and postnatal wards but they must be fit and well. Children over 12 years old will be asked to wear a mask if possible.
• We ask visitors on the maternity wards to stay with you and not to make unnecessary trips in and out of the ward.
• Visitors must leave on time when visiting ends.

Neonatal wards

We do not consider parents as visitors. Parents are an integral part in their baby’s care and within the neonatal team. Please visit our neonatal ward pages for full details on visiting us.

More information on maternity is in our maternity section.