Help new Covid labour regulations Anyone a midwife?

[Nightowl92]

Hello can someone confirm
🔴Women who are being induced may bring their partner for one hour to settle them in if wished. They will be called in when their partner is transferred to delivery suite

What does this mean? Does this mean your partner cannot stay with you from when your induced until birth?

It means that your partner can stay with you for an hour when you first get admitted to help you settle in. Then they have to go home until you are in active labour and being moved to labour ward.

Most trusts are only letting partners in from active Labour. All trusts are doing different things though.

It means what it says. Your partner can stay for an hour then they must leave until you are moved to delivery suite.
My trust doesn’t allow partners until established labour, at least they can stay with you for the first hour.

What nonsense and cruel to women. Why on earth can't the partner be there throughout????

An induction could take along time. As you will have the gel and then this again (possibly) 6 hours later if labour hasn’t started. If this doesn’t work you will then be out on a hormone drip, but may be given a rest break in between. Once the induction has worked and labour begins, you’ll be transferred from the ward, to the delivery suite and then your partner can join you.

I’m in the same position and due to be induced next week, and that is how it was explained to me. Visiting times at my hospital are 10-7 for the named person, and they can stay in the induction if it it’s within these times, but have to leave if I have not been moved to the delivery suite by 7. But every trust is different.

I went in on Sunday and didn't go to delivery til the Wednesday so DP would have dropped me off and then come back on Weds night when things got going. Fingers crossed for you that you respond better to the induction than I did so you aren't sat round bored with nothing happening for too long 🤞

I was induced in May, had to go into hospital alone and it took 2 days for the induction to progress to the point I was moved to delivery suite. At that point my husband was called to come in. We ended up in theatre for a forceps delivery and he was allowed in delivery suite, theatre and recovery room for an hour, then I was taken to a ward for two days with baby and head to go home. When being discharged the midwife took me and baby downstairs to the car, he wasn't allowed into the ward. There were no visitors on the ward at all. The midwife s were very supportive but it was a really odd situation. I'm not sure what has changed since May though.

Seems dumb. If he has covid in the first hour and when he comes back later, how is sending him home in between minimizing risk of transmission?

Increases it surely if he takes a few extra trips back and forth on public transport.