Common health problems in pregnancy
This takes you to the NHS website for information on the common problems you may encounter during your pregnancy.
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Maternity Assessment Unit
This is where you will come for unscheduled visits with urgent pregnancy-related concerns (i.e. reduced movements, bleeding, urgent health worries), when you are in labour, or with immediate urgent postnatal concerns. Please contact the Triage line 0118 322 7304 for advice.
Read morePre-labour rupture of membranes (PRoM)
This information is for you if your waters have broken, you are 37 or more weeks pregnant, and your labour has not yet started. Labour is when you are having regular contractions that are softening and opening your cervix, and moving your baby down into your birth canal.
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Very infrequently, a woman’s waters break many weeks before her baby is due; it happens in about 1 in 50 pregnancies.
Read moreReduced fetal movements - Kicks Count information
This is a link to the Kicks Count campaign leaflet in a selection of different languages, scroll down the page to find the translation you require.
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