11 labour rooms, of which 1 are home-from-home rooms You can't bring in your own birth pool Car parking for women in labour Out-of-hours access to food Facilities available if you arrive in early labour You'll be seen by a midwife who will check the progress of your labour You'll be encouraged to go home There's an area where you can be assessed You can have a bath or use a birth pool if available Communal area or living room Outside space available to women in labour When can I go into the labour ward? Once you're in established labour Before established labour if you need monitoring or care from a doctor If you need pain relief or emergency obstetric care You can have the following number of birth partners with you during labour: 2 You can have a doula as a birth partnerA doula counts towards the limited number of birth partners. You can have an alternative practitioner (e.g. your own aromatherapist) as a birth partner.
An alternative practitioner (e.g. your own aromatherapist) counts towards the limited number of birth partners. There is flexibility over numbers of birth partners but you need to discuss this with the midwife providing your care. Tours of the maternity unit This unit doesn't offer tours of the maternity facilities Take a virtual tour Amenity rooms are available. Private care isn't provided here. There may be the option to book private or independent midwifery care locally. Supporting rope or sling Entonox (gas and air) Epidurals are available 24/7. This unit has a dedicated obstetric anaesthetist. Your stay after you've given birth Women who've had an uncomplicated birth usually stay for 0-4 hours after the birth After you have given birth you'll be transferred to a bed in the postnatal area Provision for partners staying overnight: No facilities for partners to stay overnight.in the postnatal ward, on a reclining chair
Friends and family 4pm - 7pm Partners and siblings - open visiting during daytime. Maximum of 3 visitors at any time Information for visitors to private rooms Visiting as for postnatal ward Directions, car parking and public transport Per hour - £1.20 5 day pass £24 7 day pass £32 Free for parents with a baby in the neonatal unit Find out more about Baby Friendly Home births from this unit How many women had a home birth? How many women planning to give birth at home have to transfer to hospital in labour? How many women planning their first baby at home have to transfer to hospital in labour? How many women planning their second or later baby at home have to transfer to hospital in labour? How many women planning a home birth ended up having a caesarean birth? How many women planning a home birth ended up having an instrumental birth (forceps or ventouse)? How many women planning a home birth gave birth using their own efforts?
How many women who gave birth at home didn't need stitches for a cut or tear? How many women having a home birth had a water birth? Reliability of home birth service This service hasn't been suspended in the last 12 months How often are women who are booked for a home birth required to come into hospital due to a lack of available staff: Who can arrange a home birth with this unit? Women who live within the catchment area: How to arrange a home birth with this unit Book direct with the home birth team via the website, through your community midwife, via the Children Centre or GP, or call and ask to contact the Jubilee Team via 01752 517888. You can have pethidine or other opioids at home if you arrange a home birth with this hospital Note: epidurals are not available for home births Assistance for women with limited mobility Wheelchair access to the wards and delivery suite There is full provision with adapted rooms Interpreting serviceUse of 'thebigword' for telephoning interpreting.
To have a translator present, this service is bookable through Plymouth City Council which is available 24/7 Other assistance for women who don't speak or read EnglishAll national documentation is available in alternative languages . Hearing problemsA signing service can be arranged through Plymouth City Council. Sight problemsNo details available. Learning difficultiesAccess to Specialist Trust Team Autism spectrumAccess to Specialist Trust Team Ordering and Pricing Options We are able to sell many of our products without VAT to those eligible for VAT relief. Click here for more information We accept online and offline orders from individuals and official bodies with a variety of payment methods. Click here for more information. Wheelchair power packs are an ideal accessory for carers and wheelchair users who experience difficulty on sloped or uneven areas. We stock a great range of packs from such trusted names as TGA to ensure that your day out doesn’t turn into a long hard slog.
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Experts say the celestial show will be even more dazzling in 2016. Here’s all you need to know. The Perseids are a meteor shower that appear to radiate outwards from the constellation Perseus. Catholics call the phenomenon The Tears of St Lawrence. The saint was roasted to death over hot coals in 258 AD for giving away the Church’s treasures to the poor and it’s said the shooting stars are the sparks from that fire falling back to Earth. These meteors come from the debris in the tail of the Swift-Tuttle comet, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. When the Earth passes through the tail of the comet, some of the rock and dust is knocked out of place and falls towards us, burning up in the atmosphere as meteors (shooting stars). They travel at speeds of around 60km (37 miles) per second, burning up more than 50 miles above the Earth and creating streaks of light as they do so. Most of them are only about the size of a grain of sand. Swift-Tuttle was described as the biggest threat known to humanity by American astronomer Gerrit Verschuur in his 1997 book Impact!
The Threat of Comets & Asteroids. If it collided with Earth, its impact would release about 27 times more energy than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. That asteroid is thought to have been six miles (10km) across, while the Swift-Tuttle comet is 16 miles (26km) across. But thankfully the comet has a stable orbit around the sun and won’t be any threat for at least the next 2,000 years or so. It will have a close encounter with Earth in September 4479, but even then it's been calculated there is a 0.0001 per cent probability of it hitting our planet. We won’t be here then anyway, so no need to worry. For the past few years, the meteor shower has been active between July 17 and August 24, peaking in mid-August. For 2016, the peak will be Thursday, August 11, to Friday, August 12. But no need to wait for then, you can see them from early August as we head towards that peak. Look out for the meteors from 10pm on the night of August 11 but the best sightings will come when the moon disappears below the horizon at 1am in the early hours of August 12.
Normally, you can see about 80 meteors per hour but this year we are in for a even more fantastic sight. The display will be twice as good this year with an "outburst" of up to 200 meteors per hour. We haven’t had such a display since 2009. That’s because Jupiter’s gravitational pull is bringing the tail of debris a bit closer - so Earth will then plough right through the middle of it, sending more meteors raining down through the atmosphere. We are already passing through the tail right now as we head towards the peak of activity. As they radiate mainly from Perseus, a constellation in the northern part of the sky, the meteors are mostly seen in the Northern Hemisphere. But you could see them anywhere across the sky. Some can be spotted before midnight but they are more visible in the hours before dawn. A few - known as Earth-grazers - don’t plunge into the atmosphere but skim across it. They enter the atmosphere briefly, causing long bright trails or fireballs before leaving again to fly off into space.
Those arriving later, between dawn and noon, normally can’t be seen because of the glare of daylight. The light of the moon means the night sky won’t be pitch black. As the moon gets bigger on its way to becoming a full moon on August 18, its glow will mean some of the meteors won’t be visible with the naked eye. According to the forecasts, Birmingham will have a mix of cloud and sunshine on August 11. it will be partly cloudy at night, which will reduce chances of seeing an amazing display of shooting stars. A spokesman for the National Space Centre at Leicester said: "This meteor shower should be fairly impressive. The Perseids are usually one of the best, and some recent orbital movements have lead people to think that it could be better than usual thanks to more cometary debris being in the Earth's path. "However as with all stargazing based activities we are beholden to the weather. Unfortunately the current weather prediction is that it will mostly be cloudy over the UK. "If people find that at around midnight they can see some sky and stars then it might be worth a look.
No special equipment is needed - just sit back and enjoy." If we do get overcast skies, there's still chance to see the Perseids until August 24. How to take photos of the Perseid meteor shower Find an open space with a clear view of the sky that isn't obscured by trees or tall buildings. It's best to get away from urban areas to avoid 'light pollution' that casts too much of a glow over the night sky - you want the sky to be as dark as possible so the shooting stars can easily be seen. We will already have the waxing moon to contend with - its glow will reduce the darkness of the sky until it sets below the horizon around 1am. The Clent Hills and Lickey Hills near Birmingham would make good places to go. No special equipment is needed, as the meteors will be visible with the naked eye. But allow 30 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark. Remember to be patient - bring a reclining chair or a blanket so you can lie back and look up without getting a crick in your neck. A piece of rock from a comet or asteroid that burns up in our atmosphere and does not reach the earth’s surface is called a meteor.