Information for parents, their families and friends
We hope that you will find these information pages useful. Please note that they are not intended as a replacement for medical advice, but instead provide a general overview for your personal use along with suggestions of further sources of information.
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Ectopic
pregnancy (32kb)
Miscarriage(46kb)
Placental
abruption(40kb)
Eclampsia
(30kb)
Pre-eclampsia(36kb)
Group
B Streptococcus (GBS) (37kb)
Hughes
Syndrome (30kb)
Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)(34kb)
Links to information
Miscarriage (Prodigy patient information leaflet)
Ectopic pregnancy (Prodigy patient information leaflet)
Ectopic pregnancy and Chlamydia (Ectopic Pregnancy Trust)
Couples with recurrent miscarriage: what the RCOG guideline means to you (Royal College of Gynaecologists, pdf)
Preventing GBS infection in newborn babies (RCOG pdf)
Turner Syndrome (Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Trust)
Pregnancy screening tests (Prodigy patient information leaflet)
Also search at the National Library for Health for links to guidance, specialist libraries, clinical evidence and patient information
NLH Women’s Health specialist library
Antenatal screening (NHS Direct Online)
Ectopic pregnancy (NHS Direct Online)
Miscarriage (NHS Direct Online)
Stillbirth (NHS Direct Online)
Streptococcal infections (GBS) (NHS Direct Online)
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (NHS Direct Online)
Coping with miscarriage (Thinkbaby.co.uk)
Miscarriage: what happens and why (Thinkbaby.co.uk)
Bleeding in early pregnancy (Thinkbaby.co.uk)
Pre-eclampsia – staying alert (Thinkbaby.co.uk)
