Your pregnancy journey with us
Your antenatal care will start as soon as you know that you are pregnant. Ideally you need to have made contact with a midwife as soon as possible and ideally before week 10 of your pregnancy. If for any reason you have not managed to do this it is important that you contact the maternity services as soon as possible to ensure you have an early health and well-being assessment and offer of antenatal screening, which need to happen at particular points of your pregnancy.
We encourage you to self-refer to our antenatal service, but you also have the choice to go via your GP who will make the referral for you. You can self-refer by completing our online self-referral form.
All antenatal appointments are held either in the Antenatal Clinic at Hillingdon Hospital, at a children’s centre in your local area or at your home if you are planning to have a homebirth.
Your appointment letters will tell you where to go. Sometimes you may have to attend Day Assessment Unit (DAU) on the 1st floor of the Hillingdon Hospital maternity building for additional monitoring.
You can expect to have an appointment at these stages in your pregnancy:
- Booking
- 12 week dating scan
- 16 weeks
- 20 week anomaly scan
- 25 weeks (1st pregnancy only)
- 28 weeks
- 31 weeks (1st pregnancy only)
- 34 weeks
- 36 weeks
- 38 weeks
- 40 weeks
If this is your first pregnancyyou will have a minimum of 9 antenatal appointments by a midwife or doctor before your due date. If you’ve had a baby beforeyou won’t need a routine 25 or 31 week appointment.