<h1>Children’s and Family Centres</h1>
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<span>A Children’s and Family Centre is a place where parents and carers can go to enrich family life, connect with others and receive additional family support if needed. In some areas the Children's Centre may be called a Family Centre.</span>

<span>Facilities and services in Children's and Family Centres are designed around the needs of local families with children under the age of five.</span>

<span>A variety of sessions are available at your local Children's and Family Centre or Family Centre including postnatal appointments and checks, baby weighing clinics and breastfeeding support. Once your baby is six weeks old, you can access activities such as baby massage in a Children's and Family Centre. Visiting the Centre will give you the opportunity to meet other new parents and their babies. Please visit your local council's Children's and Family Centre timetables to see what sessions are available in your area.</span>

<span>Attending Children’s and Family Centres can help to reduce isolation that may be experienced by families with young children. Activities and services vary from centre to centre but can include - postnatal clinics, infant feeding drop-ins, stay and play sessions, baby massage, healthy eating sessions, parenting courses, English classes, advice around work, housing or finances, and more.</span>

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Children's and Family Centres

<h1>Community postnatal contacts</h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">You will be provided with a telephone number for your community midwife team before you go home from the maternity unit.  Please make sure you have this contact number before you leave.</span>

<span><b>For any urgent concerns</b> with your physical and emotional health, you can call the maternity triage/assessment unit where you had your baby (up to 28 days after birth). You can also speak to your GP or attend your local urgent care centre or A &amp; E department.  The NHS 111 service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.</span>

<span>If you are being discharged to a community midwifery service belonging to a different maternity unit than the one you gave birth in, you should be given the appropriate contact details.</span>

Community postnatal contacts

<h1>Postnatal six week check for new mums</h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">You will be offered a 6-8 week postnatal maternal check by the GP to ensure that you are feeling healthy and coping well. It is a chance for you to ask any questions, or address any concerns you may have.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">These are some of the things your GP or health visitor will ask you about:</span>
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 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">your general wellbeing</span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">your physical and emotional wellbeing    </span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">any medication you are taking, and if this needs reviewing</span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">whether your bleeding has stopped and if you have had a period</span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">how your perineum/caesarean scar is healing</span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">how are you feeding your baby and any concerns you have with this</span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">your contraception choices and if you require any support or information about accessing appropriate contraception.</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Before the six week check, it is recommended that you think about the following:</span>
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 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">any areas of concern that you have</span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">any plans you may have regarding future pregnancies (the optimal time interval between birth and the next pregnancy is between 18 months and five years and another pregnancy within six months of birth increases the risk of that baby having a low birth weight and/or being born early)</span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">the best contraceptive choice for you</span></li>
 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">the implications of any medical condition(s) that you may have experienced in or after pregnancy.</span></li>
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<a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/postnatal-check/" type="nhs">Your postnatal check</a>

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Postnatal six week check for new mums

<h1>Screening tests for your baby</h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">When your baby is 5 days old, your health care professional will routinely offer screening tests for your baby. These may be offered to you at home or in a local postnatal clinic.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">More information about screening tests can be found in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/screening-tests-for-you-and-your-baby-description-in-brief">'Screening tests for you and your baby booklet'</a>. This is available to download in many different languages.</span>
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<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/newborn-blood-spot-test/">Newborn blood spot test</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/hearing-test/">Hearing test</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/babys-six-week-check/">Newborn initial physical examination (NIPE)</a>

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<a type="nhs" href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/newborn-screening/">Newborn screening</a>
<a type="nhs" href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/696849/Screening_tests_for_you_and_your_baby.pdf">Booklet: Screening tests for you and your baby</a>

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Screening tests for your baby

<h1>Your postnatal care team</h1>
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<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/17/646/">Midwives on the postnatal ward</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/17/community-midwife-and-support-workers-2/">Community midwife and support workers</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/health-visitor/">Health visitor</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/gp/">GP</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/obstetrician/">Obstetrician</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2020/06/10/paediatrician-neonatalogist-baby-doctor/">Paediatrician/Neonatalogist (baby doctor)</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/669/">Pelvic health (women's health) physiotherapists</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/multidisciplinary-professionals/">Multidisciplinary professionals</a>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Use the related link below to learn about what you can expect from postnatal care.</span>
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<a type="nice" href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng194">Postnatal care up to eight weeks after birth</a>

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Your postnatal care team

<h1>Postnatal care explained</h1>
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<span>Postnatal care is the care you and your baby receive after birth. This care is often provided by a team of clinicians; including midwives, doctors and other specialist health professionals who will ensure you and your baby have regular checks following the birth.</span>
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<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/17/your-postnatal-care-team/">Your postnatal care team</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/screening-tests-your-baby/">Screening tests for your baby</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/22/postnatal-six-week-check-for-new-mums/">Postnatal six week check for new mums</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/childrens-centres/">Children's and Family Centres</a>

<a href="https://admin.mumandbaby.uk/2018/08/18/emergency-postnatal-contacts/">Community postnatal contacts</a>
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