Maternity Services at Newcastle Hospitals

06/12/2025

04/12/2025

👉Support for you and your baby.

👉If you’re eligible for , you can get free Healthy Start vitamins to help you stay healthy during pregnancy and beyond.

👉Find out how to get yours: 👉www.healthystart.nhs.uk/getting-vitamins

02/12/2025

🎂Today, the brilliant Newcastle Birthing Centre is marking one year since it reopened its doors.

😍During that time, we have welcomed so many lovely families, and supported women in the delivery of 447 gorgeous babies.

🤰🏾A big thank you to you all, and to our dedicated midwifery team - we look forward to caring for many more of you in 2026.

01/12/2025

This is Luca’s Story…

“Luca was born at 24+4 in July 2024 weighing a tiny 720g. At 2 weeks old he was transferred to Ward 35 at the RVI following a ruptured bowel which required emergency surgery.
He stayed on the ward for nearly 4 months, working his way from intensive care to high dependency but then had to go back to intensive care following another bowel rupture and more emergency surgery. He then made it to low dependency and finally home, still on oxygen and with a stoma.
Since being discharged home he’s had further surgeries at the RVI including having his stoma reversed and has now been weaned off the oxygen. He is now 1 year corrected and weighs a healthy 9.2kg!
Luca was incredibly well looked after on ward 35, everyone was not only medically amazing, but kind with both Luca and my husband and I. As Luca’s parents, we cannot thank them enough for keeping our little boy going and getting him home with us!”

📸shared with consent🤍

28/11/2025

👨‍👧‍👧What do men need to be the best dads they can be?

👶Children and Families Newcastle are asking dads, grandads, and other male carers exactly that.

👳‍♂️They want men to share their experiences and ideas, to shape community support, events, and activities for dads happening across the city!

👍Survey link in the comments, to share with the best dads you know.

27/11/2025

You need a maternity exemption certificate to claim free NHS prescriptions.

Check if you're eligible: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/check-if-you-have-nhs-exemption/maternity-exemption-certificates

26/11/2025

🤱Every child deserves a healthy start in life.

👶🏿If you’re pregnant or you have a child under four, could help you buy healthy food and milk, and provide free vitamins too!

👶Find out if you’re eligible: 👉www.healthystart.nhs.uk

24/11/2025

Baby week is now over - it was a huge success across Newcastle.

If you went to any of the 2025 Baby Week activities, please take a couple of minutes to fill out a feedback form. Link in first comment.

Your feedback is really important and will help shape Baby Week 2026. We can’t wait to celebrate with you all again next year!

23/11/2025

21/11/2025

😍Who had a baby in October? Tag them.

📅All 2025 birth stats, up to November will be (re)published here in December. Look out for all the babies. 👶🏽👶🏾👶🏿👶🏼👶🏻👶

21/11/2025

👶Every child deserves a healthy start in life.

🤰If you’re pregnant or you have a child under four, could help you buy healthy food and milk, and provide free vitamins too!

👉Find out if you’re eligible: 👉www.healthystart.nhs.uk

20/11/2025

It's Baby Week! Today, we're down at the Hancock, along with loads of other organisations talking all things baby-related. This year's theme is Healthy Parent, Healthy Baby, which we're right behind. There's loads going on, lots of taster sessions, and some brilliant people to connect with if you're the parent or carer of tiny children, and it's all FREE. Bundle up your toddlers and babies nice and warm, and pop down to say hello. Pictured: two lovely Best Start in Life Advisors, Jenny and Paula. They're ready to chat!