Having your baby at Tunbridge Wells Hospital

The Delivery Suite at Tunbridge Wells Hospital has modern, spacious rooms with en-suite facilities, climate control for your comfort, and lighting dimmers to bring about a calming birthing environment.

Our Delivery Suite is suitable for women with both midwife-led pregnancies and those who require closer monitoring.

The maternity unit has 15 birthing rooms, set up as home from home, two of which have birthing pools.

Our facilities also include two obstetric theatres, a two-bed recovery area and two maternity enhanced care rooms.

The Neonatal Unit is next to Delivery Suite should your baby require any extra care.

You will be cared for by a midwife at all times during your stay, including one to one care during labour.

Our services are provided by a team of midwives (including students), doctors, anaesthetists and maternity support workers, 24 hours a day.

We promote active birth and should your baby need continuous monitoring in labour, we have four wireless monitoring devices.

We have the use of birthing balls and our rooms are very spacious to enable you to have an active birth.

 

Visiting

There is a waiting room on Delivery Suite for your visitors, which has access to vending machines.

If your baby’s birth is straightforward and you and your baby do not require any additional observations or treatment, you may be discharged home from Delivery Suite. This will be discussed with you on an individual basis.

If you remain in the hospital following your birth, you will be cared for on the Postnatal ward which is staffed by midwives and support workers. One nominated person is able to stay with you overnight.

If you plan to have your baby by elective caesarean you will be cared for by a dedicated theatre team, including nurses and midwives.