Hello Mums (and I'm sure Dads),
I am a midwife who is looking in to ways to improve our service and am currently trying to update the postnatal information that we give to our new mums as they are discharged from hospital to community care.
I am trying to do a bit of research to find out what sort of information you feel that you need to know when leaving hospital.
Currently our information includes details of visits from your community midwife and health visitor, registering the birth, breastfeeding support groups, sleep safety advice, postnatal excersises. Emergency contact phone numbers, signs of if a baby is unwell and signs of postnatal depression.
I would really appreciate feedback from mums on if you were given information similar to this when you left hospital.
Did you find any of it useful?
What would you have liked to have information on and didn't?
Was the information you were given easy to follow?
I have just been reading the thread on 'postnatal care and how to improve it' that features some awful experiences and I hope that some of you would appreciate how some midwives are trying to make things better bit by bit and hopefully with some good feedback from you, this is one bit we can improve on.
I appreciate all of your comments - Thank you
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Discharge from Hospital - what do you need to know?
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nebbo · 02/08/2011 10:15
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