The Barkantine Birth centre
Description
This page aims to promote the Barkantine by sharing birth-related posts. IT DOES NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS/POLICIES OF BART'S HEALTH NHS Trust. The Barkantine is a freestanding, NHS, midwife led birth centre located on the isle of dogs. We support low risk women to birth naturally in a home from home environment. We do not have a catchment area meaning that we can accept women from any area as long as they are happy to travel to us in labour!!
We have 5 rooms all with en-suite facilities, a birthing pool and a double bed so that someone can stay with you following the birth.
We opened our doors in 2008 and since then we have had over 2000 wonderful births. The aim of this page is to bring together people that have used the centre, past/present staff and anyone in support of natural birth and freestanding birth centres.
We offer tours for women interested in birthing with us after 20 weeks. If you are interested please do not hesitate to contact us directly.
Unfortunately we are unable to answer any individual pregnancy related questions on this page. If you do have a question or query please contact your midwifery team.
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facebook.comBarkantine Birth Centre will be closing for plumbing repairs Saturday 9th September 08.00 am until Sunday 10th September 20.00 pm. We're trying to phone round everyone to let them know, but not all messages are getting through. Please come and have your babies before and after that weekend! Those of you are unable to time that correctly will be offered the Lotus birth centre 8B at the Royal London Hospital
That's quite a belly full! Shame this video is twice as long as it needs to be, but it's quite a story to share...
Drop in for a cuppa or enjoy the free exercise classes with other E14 pregnant women and new parents - here's when and where
The first 10 minutes of Friday's Womans hour is a very helpful piece about pelvic floor exercises - well worth a listen as a reminder to all of us! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08z98hm
Anyone like to train as a breastfeeding volunteer?
Invitation!
Maternity Voices liaise between maternity service users and providers to voice users' concerns and to improve services. Please share your recent experiences with by completing this survey of experience of maternity care in Tower Hamlets.
Great position!
Opportunity to volunteer locally with fab organisation!
Interesting use of rebozo!
Researchers from City University are looking for 4-5 Barkantine Birth Centre service users to attend a training session to help improve the birth centre environment, could you please help us? The training day is on the 3rd of July and we pay £50 for service users' time in vouchers.
speaks for itself...
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