Welcome to the Maternity and Neonatal building.
Maternity care refers to caring for women and birthing people during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. In other words, before a baby is born until after a baby is born.
The maternity team is made up of several highly trained professionals and support staff that work closely together to keep women and babies safe. Midwives are usually the first point of contact for women and birthing people, they work alongside administrative staff, maternity support workers, nursery nurses, doctors (known as obstetricians), anaesthetists and others.
The neonatal team are highly trained in caring for babies that are born prematurely (before 37 weeks gestation) or with a medical condition which needs treatment. The word neonatal means newborn and includes babies up to 28 days old.
The neonatal team comprises several different professionals and support staff, including administrative staff and receptionists, neonatal nursery nurses, nurses, doctors (neonatologists) and allied health professionals including dietitians and speech and language therapists.
There are three categories of neonatal units in Wales: neonatal intensive care unit, local neonatal unit and special care unit.
Babies are sometimes transferred from units which provide high dependency and special care for more specialised intensive care or surgical treatment in larger intensive care units.
Please have a look at the different floors of the building for some of the roles mentioned above. If you are interested in a specific profession, please also visit our nursing, pharmacy, allied health professional, health care science and medical buildings to learn more.