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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has again rated maternity services at Basildon University Hospital and Southend University Hospital requires improvement following inspections in March last year.

Staff shortages at a major hospital trust put the safety of expectant mothers and their babies at risk, a regulator warned.

Unassisted vaginal births accounted for 61.3 per cent with 16.8 per cent elective caesarean sections and 14.2 per cent emergency caesarean sections.

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Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust collates all the baby-related data every month detailing how many babies are born – boys and girls – whether there are any sets of ...

See Section 4: Glossary for more information. Live births and stillbirths annual summary statistics, by sex, age of mother, whether inside marriage or civil partnership, percentage of non-UK-born ...

Some 1.3 per cent were home births and 7.1 per cent were water births with 89.4 per cent of babies delivered on the labour ward or in theatre and 9.3 per cent were on the midwife led unit. Unassisted ...

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Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm. When you purchase ...

“I got my water birth, unmedicated and having the best team of women surrounding us.” Did you have a new arrival in 2024? Please send a close up colour (not black and white or ...