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Antenatal care

for a brief overview of the antenatal care you should expect, please see below.

Antenatal Care

During your pregnancy your midwife and GP will care for you. Both hold antenatal clinics in the Windrush Medical Practice.

Now you are pregnant, what next?

Pre-natal appointment

Newly pregnant women are seen by the community midwife around the 10th week of their pregnancy. This is called the booking appointment and can take up to an hour. Your partner is welcome to attend.

The booking appointment provides a good opportunity to discuss maternity care, place of delivery, health and lifestyle issues and screening tests available. Follow up antenatal care is then tailored to meet individual needs.

The majority of care will be given by your midwife. However, you may have some appointments with your GP and/or at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

If you feel that you need to speak to a community midwife before your first antenatal appointment please either leave a message with the receptionist, or you can contact the health visitor via the community midwifes’ office on Witney 708742.

Delivery of your baby

Those women choosing to deliver in the community will be cared for by one of the Witney midwifery team when they go into labour.

Hospital staff will look after those choosing to deliver at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Coming home from hospital

When women and their babies come home from hospital they will be visited at home by a member of the community midwifery team. The midwife will be able to give you care and advice on most issues concerned with having a new baby.

She will arrange further visits at home or at the midwives drop in clinic, until the baby is 10 to 28 days old, when care is handed over to the health visitor.

Postnatal appointment

The next time you are seen by the GP is at the postnatal appointment where any issues from the pregnancy can be dealt with.

  • Contacting the midwives

    If you have recently become pregnant, please phone the midwives on 01993 708742 as soon as you are able to receive advice about folic acid that you will need straight away, as well as to plan your ongoing care.

  • Antenatal Care

    Websites

    Calculate your Due Date

    Your Antenatal Appointments Explained

    Find Maternity Services Near you

  • Antenatal Support – OUH

    The OUH is offering a telephone helpline ‘As the midwife’ which is open from 11am to 7pm every day (including weekends) for non-urgent queries for women registered to give birth at the Trust.

    Please share with expectant mothers.

    Phone
    07919 213 667

  • Oxfordshire MVP Ask the Midwife

    Ask the Midwife sessions are held via Facebook live on Mondays and with information on infant feeding on Thursdays (both start at 2:30pm).

  • Community Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit

    The Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU) is a community service which cares for women who are in the early stages of pregnancy and experiencing pain, bleeding or other problems relating to their pregnancy.

    Phone
    01865 221142

    Website
    www.ouh.nhs.uk/women

  • Community Midwife

    A Community Midwife shares in the care of all mothers before and after delivery. She can be contacted by the Medical Practice on 01993 702911.

    For non urgent calls please leave a message on the answer phone at 01993 708742

    For immediate attention phone 01865 220221

  • Glucose Tolerance Test

    If your Doctor or Midwife has referred you for a Glucose Tolerance Test appointment, please read the information leaflet below – it contains important information about preparing for your appointment and what to expect.

    Glucose Tolerance Test (PDF)

  • Planning your Pregnancy

    If you’re planning on getting pregnant, you can improve your chances of conceiving and having a successful pregnancy. 

    Follow these steps

  • Midwife Clinics

    The midwives run a clinic at the Witney Community Hospital from Monday to Friday 1pm to 4pm. Anyone wishing to see a midwife for advice will be welcome at this clinic.

    Phone
    01993 708742

  • UK National Screening Committee (NSC)

    Provides key facts and resources for Antenatal and Newborn screening programmes.

    Website
    NHS NIPE