Maternity

• Prenatal information
• Monitoring
• Labour and childbirth

Prenatal information

Prenatal consultation with a midwife

Every pregnant woman (with her partner) can visit the midwife for an individual consultation at the Jan Yperman Hospital between 18 and 20 weeks of pregnancy.

What?

The midwife will:

• draw up the obstetric file in which all the important data for the birth are recorded (administrative, medical and social)
• provide practical information on pregnancy, labour, delivery and feeding the newborn according to individual needs. Information will also be given on maternity stays, postnatal monitoring and maternity care.

You can also ask the midwife personal questions and discuss expectations and wishes.

When?

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday: from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Practical details

You can make an appointment via the maternity department on 057 35 60 87 (preferably between 8:30 and 16:00). A consultation takes about 1 hour and is fully reimbursed by the national health insurance.

The consultations take place in Jan Yperman Hospital at the maternity ward (route 17). Bring your identity card, a label of your health insurance and your maternity booklet. You are expected to arrive on time. Please sign up first at the registration desk in the entrance hall. You will be given a number of patient stickers to give to the midwife during consultations.

If you can't get there (on time), please give us a call at 057 35 60 87.

Monitoring

Pregnant women sometimes need to be monitored in hospital during the pregnancy on the advice of the gynaecologist. During this monitoring, the well-being of the baby can be assessed. This is always done on referral from the gynaecologist.

Labour and childbirth

If you are worried, call the maternity ward first on 057 35 60 61.

You always come in through the emergency department, both day and night.

What to bring?

• Identity card and blood group card
• Referral letter and/or pregnancy booklet
• Towels, flannels and toiletries
• Nightwear, underwear (nursing bra)
• 4 baby singlets and 4 baby pyjamas
• Baby clothes when you are ready to go home + hat for baby
• The hospital provides sanitary towels and breast pads. Care products, a thermometer, a comb and brush and nappies for the baby are also provided.

When to come to the hospital?

• In case of painful contractions:
  • First birth (it's your first child): every 5 minutes for 1 hour
  • Subsequent birth (it is not your first child): every 10 minutes for 1 hour

• Amniotic fluid loss (even if you have no contractions)
• Abnormal abdominal pain
• Sharp stomach pain with or without vomiting/diarrhoea
• Sudden complaints such as fever, severe headache, blood loss

Childbirth

Childbirth is a natural process. It can be done in the birthing pool or on the delivery table.

Our maternity ward has labour rooms. They are equipped with a jacuzzi, a birthing pool, a shower cell, a delivery table, a relaxation ball, adapted mood lighting, soft music...