Maternity

Birth Partners & Visiting

Your birth partner and your own children (including stepchildren) can visit Birth partners you on the maternity wards (Quantock Ward, Mendip Ward and Percy Phillips Ward) from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm every day.

Others (over the age of 13) can visit between 2.00 pm and 4.30 pm and 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm.

General visiting is limited to 2 visitors at a time (in addition to your birth partner and own children) as it is important for new mothers to have the opportunity to rest and establish feeding.

Whilst you are on Delivery Suite or the Birth Suite, you are welcome to have 2 birth partners with you at all times. We ask that these are the same 2 people, unless in exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the Delivery Suite coordinator.
In theatre and the recovery area 1 birth partner can stay with you, unless you need a general anaesthetic.

Visitors

Do not visit if you have had symptoms of diarrhoea or vomiting in the last 48 hours and do not bring in unwell sibling(s)
Please be aware that flowers are no longer allowed within the maternity unit.
Use the alcohol gel provided when you enter and leave
Please report to maternity reception upon arrival. Security passes will be issued to all visitors, be worn at all times and handed back to recpetion when leaving

Parking

Short-stay parking places (20 minutes maximum stay) are available near the Maternity reception.

The Neonatal Unit can inform you of the parking arrangements for parents of babies on the Neonatal Unit after the mother has been discharged home.

Advice is available from the car park office at Southmead Hospital on (0117) 323 5023. The Trust looks favourably at exceptional individual circumstances.