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Maternity information leaflets

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• After your 'waters break' (pdf)
• Breastfeeding: successful breastfeeding (pdf) 
• Caesarean birth (pdf)
• Caesarean birth: Horton General Hospital (pdf)  
• Chromosome and genetic testing in pregnancy (pdf)
• Clot prevention: information for women taking LMWH (pdf)   
• Down's syndrome - testing for Down's Syndrome in pregnancy (pdf)
• External cephalic version (ECV) - turning your baby to a head-down position (pdf)
• Fetal Medicine Unit - uterine artery Doppler ultrasound scan (pdf)
• Fetal Medicine Unit - having a cervical scan (pdf)
• Gestational diabetes: postnatal information for women who have had gestational diabetes (pdf) 
• Home birth - choosing a home birth or birth in a midwife led unit (pdf) 
• Induction of labour (pdf)
• Obstetric cholestasis (itching liver disorder) (pdf)
• Pelvic Girdle Pain (SPD) (pdf)
• Perineum - antenatal perineal massage (pdf) 
• Perineum - care of the perineum after the birth of your baby (pdf)
• Physiotherapy advice and exercises after 3rd or 4th degree tear during childbirth (pdf)
• Postnatal depression: what is postnatal depression? (pdf) Produced by The Spires Centre
• Postnatal depression - things you can do to help yourself (pdf) Produced by The Spires Centre
• Pregnancy and Body Mass Index (BMI) (pdf)
• Rubella and pregnancy (pdf)
• St George's Ward, Wallingford Maternity Unit (pdf)
• The mid-pregnancy anomaly scan (pdf)
• The quadruple blood test (pdf) 
• The Spires Midwifery Led Unit (MLU) (pdf) 
• VBAC: Vaginal birth after Caesarean (pdf)
• Vitamin K - information for parents-to-be (pdf)
• Your recovery after childbirth - physiotherapy, exercises and advice (pdf)