Come and join Walsall’s Community Midwives

A recruitment event for potential Community Midwives to work in Walsall is being held later this month. Visitors to the event at Walsall Manor Hospital on Saturday 16 November will have the opportunity to be interviewed that day, have the opportunity to speak to the team and tour the Midwifery-Led Unit, community office and Delivery […]

Hypnobirthing sessions to re-start

Walsall’s Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU) is restarting its hypnobirthing sessions for mums-to-be next week. This course teaches relaxation, visualisation and self-hypnosis skills that may help during labour as they are aimed at helping women to specifically focus on the birth and take less notice of anything else around them at that time. These virtual sessions will […]

Continuity of Carer for Walsall mums-to-be

Walsall mums-to-be will be supported by a designated team of midwives, with a named midwife who they will see for the majority of their care, thanks to the launch of a new team. The Wyndlow team, named after nursing heroine Dorothy “Sister Dora” Pattison, will deliver Continuity of Carer for low risk women and has […]

Baby Amelia makes it a day to remember

Congratulations  to Joanna Sucha and Miloslav Suchy whose daughter Amelia was the first baby to be born at Walsall Healthcare’s Midwifery-Led Unit this morning – the first day it re-opened for births! Little Amelia arrived at 10am weighing 7 pounds and 12 ounces and is the couple’s third child. Proud mum Joanna had a water […]

MLU re-opening just a week away!

Walsall’s Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU) is set to re-open for births in a week’s time – with tours taking place for mums-to-be and their partners to have a look around and talk to staff. The unit, which is the Black Country’s only freestanding MLU, will continue to offer supportive antenatal, postnatal and perinatal mental health clinics. […]