Midwives Bydwragedd
Based
at Builth Cottage Hospital & Llanwrtyd Branch Surgery.Contact Numbers:
Builth 01982 552221
Llanwrtyd 01591 610257
The Community Midwives are registered Nurses who have extensive
training in all matters to do with childbirth.
They hold regular clinics and antenatal classes, but also visit
at home. When your pregnancy has been diagnosed you will be referred
by your GP to a community midwife. A midwife is usually the first
and main contact for the expectant mother during her pregnancy,
throughout labour and postnatal period.
Midwives help mothers to make informed choices about the services
and options available to them by providing as much information as
possible. They carry out clinical examinations, provide health and
parent education and support the mother and her family throughout
the childbearing process to help them adjust to their parental role.
The midwife also works in partnership with other health and social
care services to meet individual mothers’ needs, for example,
teenage mothers, mothers who are socially excluded, disabled mothers
and mothers from diverse ethnic backgrounds.