
Once you have found out that you are pregnant, please get in touch with our maternity team as soon as possible to book your first appointment.
You can book your first appointment by completing an online self-referral form via this link >
Maternity care is made up of care for you for while you are pregnant, during your birth and for you and your baby in the first weeks after your baby is born.
If you live in Essex and pay your council tax to Harlow, Epping or Uttlesford local authorities, we can offer care at all three stages.
If you live outside those areas, some parts of your antenatal care, care at home during a homebirth and care at home after your baby is born may be provided by midwives who work for another hospital’s maternity service.
We know that people who have their maternity care from two different maternity services sometimes feel that this has an impact on their care. They might feel it was more difficult to get information about all the choices available to them and the people giving care might find it harder to get all the information about any tests or plans made with the other maternity service.
Our job is to make sure you have all the information you need to make the decisions that are right for you. This is called informed decision making and this is why we are sharing this information with you now. It’s important to know that most women are happy with care from two maternity services. It is your choice and we will continue to work hard to make sure you are well cared for, whichever decision you make.
Ideally, a midwife will have seen you at your first appointment by the time that you are ten weeks pregnant.
Contact details
Community midwifery team
- Hera midwifery team (Harlow area):
- [email protected]
- Willow midwifery team (Harlow area) :
- [email protected]
- Juno midwifery team (Harlow area):
- [email protected]
- Lotus midwifery team (Epping, Ongar):
- [email protected]
- Priory midwifery team (Waltham Abbey):
- [email protected]
- East Hertfordshire midwifery team:
- [email protected]
- Rodings midwifery team (Dunmow, Stansted):
- [email protected]
- Forest midwifery team (Loughton, Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell):
- [email protected]
- Saffron Walden midwifery team:
- [email protected]