Our Booklets

We have local booklets you might find useful

Your Choices Booklet

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Download Your Choices booklet which includes information about your birth choices locally.

 

Personal Care and Support Plan

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There are many different things to consider when you are pregnant. This Personal Care and Support Plan will help you to explore, understand, and record your individual choices for pregnacy, birth, and the first few weeks of parenthood.

Access My Pregnancy Preferences information here.

 

After Your Baby's Birth Booklet

 

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Download After your baby's birth Information booklet for mums and families

 

DadPad

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS) have launched DadPad, a free and easy to use app which can help local fathers with guidance on how to develop the mindset, confidence and practical skills needed to meet their babies’ physical and emotional needs.

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The app is available to all dads and dads-to-be within the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and can be downloaded for free, from the App Store and Google Play. Dadpad is also available in hardcopy booklet versions and will shortly be available to support those who do not have access to DadPad digitally and will cover the main topics contained with the DadPad app. Download the DadPad app.

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Strategy for Maternity and Neonatal services 

Every year, over 9,000 babies are born to families living in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.  About 1,330 of these babies will need care in a neonatal unit, because they were born early or sick.  All these babies will be cared for by maternity, obstetric and neonatal services.

Babies are often born or cared for in hospitals outside of their local area, and in 2022, 11,546 babies were born in our three local hospitals, and our three neonatal units treated between 1,000 – 2,000 babies, many of whom are from outside of Cambridgeshire or Peterborough.

Families in the North of Cambridgeshire may go to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn for their maternity and obstetric services.

This document sets out our goals for maternity, obstetric and neonatal services for the next ten years.  It also lays out how we will progress towards these goals for the next three years.

To us, the maternity and neonatal system is all the services that care for and support pregnant and birth women and people, parents, babies, and their families, from the start of a pregnancy until day 10 of their lives for healthy babies, and through neonatal care for those who need it.  There are numerous agencies and services involved in this care.

Keep up to date:

If you would like to receive regular updates on the progress and latest developments of the Maternity and Neonatal strategy, email the Children & Maternity team.

Here are the associated documents for you to read:

1. ICS Maternity and Neonatal Strategy.pdf [pdf] 2MB 

2. ICS Maternity and Neonatal Strategy Stakeholder engagement report.pdf [pdf] 915KB

3. ICS Maternity and Neonatal Strategy Research and Policy Briefing.pdf [pdf] 489KB