Hospital Care

Eden Suite has five home-from-home rooms, two of which have birthing pools  for water births.

Eden Suite is a home from home midwifery-led birthing unit at Arrowe Park Hospital that offers a welcoming, safe and relaxed environment. The suite is staffed by experienced midwives who are passionate about promoting natural labour and normal birth.

Why choose to have your baby on Eden Suite?

Giving birth is generally very safe. Evidence suggests that healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies who plan to give birth in an alongside midwifery-led unit having fewer interventions during labour, for example to drip to speed labour up, and are less likely to need forceps or have a caesarean section. They have significantly more normal births than women who give birth in an obstetric unit with no difference in outcome for the baby.

Some women need care in hospital during the antenatal period. Care is provided on the Maternity Ward on the first floor of the Wirral Women and Children’s Hospital.

There are 26 individual rooms for newly delivered mothers and pregnant women, each with en-suite bathrooms. Your support person may be able to stay on the ward with you.

There is a six-bedded Post Operative Care Bay where you will go for a short period of time if you have been to theatre for any procedure.

The Postnatal ward also has four “Transitional Care” rooms that are used when babies require additional support that can be provided with the support of the Neonatal Unit.

The delivery suite is where anyone who isn’t low risk will be give birth, this is also where care is given to ladies who have additional risk factors and requiring additional care in the antenatal, intrapartum or postnatal period.

Who has risk factors? - Anyone who is being induced, less than 37 weeks pregnant, has a high risk obstetric or medical condition, unwell or with a fetal well-being concern.

We have:

• 8 Delivery rooms – 7 are ensuite
• High risk pool room (suitable for women who meet a criteria based on safety recommendations & availability)
• 2 High Dependency rooms
• Emergency maternity theatre and recovery room
• Bereavement suite
• Level 3 Neonatal Unit in immediate vicinity
• There are two designated Maternity Theatres directly linked to the Delivery Suite and MLU which are staffed 24 hours per day for elective and emergency surgery
• A designated Induction of Labour Suite based within our Delivery Suite - this is a 3 bedded area with shared bathroom facilities. Each space has 3 walls and a curtain for privacy.

This is one of our Delivery Rooms which has ensuite facilities. We have Delivery Beds that can be used in a variety of positions to support you using different positions in labour, mood lighting, music players, monitoring equipment to monitor you and your baby and a resuscitare for if your baby needs any support when they are born.  

This is a photo of our high risk birthing pool which is based in one of our High Dependency Rooms on Delivery Suite.  If you have risk factors depending on what they are it may still be suitable for you to use the birth pool.  It may be recommended if you are recommended to have continuous monitoring of your babies heart beat or if you are being induced.  Depending on your risk factors you may be recommended to get out of the birth pool when you are giving birth but can use it as a coping strategy for labour.   

This is one of the spaces you will come to in Harmony Suite if you are coming in for an Induction of Labour. There is mood lighting, a space to rest and be monitored and birthing balls available. There is an shared bathroom based within the Harmony Suite. It has been purposely built within our Delivery Suite so you have quick access to be transferred or reviewed by our Obstetric Doctors if needed.