Midwifery Led Unit, Drogheda

06/11/2025

There is space in tonight’s antenatal labour and birth class between 17:30-20:00 ⏰
If you would like to book in please contact Emma on 0879543898 ☎️

07/10/2025

Smiles and celebrations all around for National Breastfeeding Week 🤱🏻

This year's National Breastfeeding Week runs from October 1st to 7th, with the theme: “Hold me close: The power of skin-to-skin contact.” Breastfeeding plays a vital role in your baby's health, providing all the nutrients they need in the right balance to grow strong and healthy.

Roughly 63% of women initiate breastfeeding nationally, here in the MLU we are very proud of our most recent breastfeeding rates which showed a breastfeeding initiation rate of 88% among MLU mums with 77% of our mums exclusively breastfeeding at Day 7.

This is down to the wonderful work of our lactation team, parent craft team and our dedicated midwives who work together to provide antenatal education in person & online, promote antenatal colostrum harvesting, provide colostrum harvesting packs, support skin to skin, carry out postnatal home visits, daily phone check ins, attend study days, training & skills updates and pump rental schemes to name a few.

What are the benefits of breastfeeding?

For Mum 🤰🏼
- Breastfeeding helps your uterus (womb) return to normal size more quickly
- Helps you bond with your baby, reduces your risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and diabetes
- Saves you time and money, it is convenient at there is no need to carry bottles and formula with you when out and about, it is ready when baby needs it at the perfect temperature with no need to sterilise.
- Burns calories and may help you regain your pre-pregnancy weight.

For baby 👶🏽
- Helps to protect your baby from illnesses such as chest, ear and tummy infections.
- Reduces your baby’s risk of constipation or an upset tummy
- Reduces the risk of obesity for your baby when they are older
- Can help to lower your baby’s risk of food allergies

If Parents or parents-to-be have any queries about breastfeeding they can ask questions by email or live chat through the ‘Ask our breastfeeding expert’ service on mychild.ie:

https://www2.hse.ie/babies-children/breastfeeding/ask-our-breastfeeding-expert/

You can also speak to your midwife at your next appointment 📆

For information on breastfeeding support groups in your area please follow this link:

https://www2.hse.ie/services/breastfeeding-support/

07/10/2025

The new National Survey on Infant Feeding Support Services is now live. We would like to invite women at any stage of their pregnancy or postnatal journey to complete the online form 🩵🩷

https://redcap.ucc.ie/surveys/?s=84DTYC3MYTATP8HN

06/10/2025

🔈Exciting Announcement 🔈

MLU is now running an antenatal clinic in Navan.
We celebrated our first clinic day in Navan on Friday the 3rd of October. Our first client was glowing mum to be Rachel who is pictured below with some of our team including our CMM2 Fiona, CMM3 Adrienne and 4th year student midwife Jayne 💕

The Navan clinic is located in the Outpatients department in Navan hospital and will be run from there every Friday 🤰🏼

We are so delighted to be able to deliver and grow our services out into the community. We also run clinics in Balbriggan, Dundalk, Carrickmacross and Drogheda to cater for as many women as possible. If you wish to attend one of these clinics please speak to your midwife at your next appointment👩🏻‍⚕️

Please spread the word 🗣️

02/10/2025

09/09/2025

We would like to congratulate 🎊 Baby Holly 👶 Today she is heading home from the neonatal unit. Holly was born at 26 weeks and 2 days, she spent 96 days in hospital before graduating to her wonderful new life at home 🏡 ❤️ Best of luck to Holly and her family ✨️✨️

07/09/2025

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The BabyTalk Initiative is a groundbreaking project aimed at enhancing the early development and wellbeing of the most vulnerable babies across the nation.

Developed by a team at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, it focuses on supporting early language habits in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) by encouraging those around them to “Speak, Read and Sing” to newborn babies.

Louth County Council

02/09/2025

Breastfeeding Group in Drogheda 💕

02/08/2025

“Big thank you to all staff in MLU Drogheda!! Especially to the staff who were with me during labour and helping make this experience successful 🥰🥰” - Irina

Thanks so much to Irina for sending in this wonderful picture of the day she got home with her beautiful baby boy 💙

We love hearing your stories and sharing your lovely pictures of such a special time as do all the mammy’s to be🤰🏼 So please send us on anything you would like us to share here on our page 🥰

20/07/2025

Great initiative 🙌🏻

The RSA will be providing the service this week in Drogheda and Dundalk.
As many as 54% of child seats are fitted incorrectly which can lead to serious injuries in an accident. This is a free and quick service provided by experts who will advise and assist in the fitting of child car seats. They will be at Tesco Extra, Drogheda on 22nd July and Smyths Toys, Dundalk on the 23rd July from 10am to 5.30pm.

20/07/2025

August Antenatal class times and booking information 🙌🏻