Our Reflections team offer a midwifery-led debriefing service. It provides you and your family the opportunity to meet with a midwife to discuss your experience of pregnancy and birth with our Trust.
Our Reflections service aims to provide you and your family with clarity and understanding around birth. It offers time and space for people to express their feelings about their birth experience.
We accept referrals to our Reflections service from anyone who has given birth with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.
We offer telephone appointments or face-to-face at the University Hospital of Hartlepool.
What do our patients say about the service?
The service has really helped me understand what happened during my labour and birth which was very hazy at the time.”
Really great to have the opportunity to discuss and hear about my birth. Very helpful and it’s made me feel more prepared for me next delivery.
Very helpful and informative. I felt listened to and it filled in missing memories. Helped my understanding of everything that happened previously.
How do I book an appointment?
Appointments are offered six weeks from the day you have given birth.
You can self-refer to this service online. The team will then contact you to make an appointment.
Birth reflections referral formAlternatively, you can speak to a health care professional who can refer on your behalf.
If you have just found out you are pregnant – please read
The Reflections service is for patients who are already on our maternity pathway or have recently given birth, to discuss their maternity experience.
The reflections team does not support in registering pregnancies.
If you have recently found out you are pregnant and need to inform us, please ensure you register your pregnancy through our online BadgerNotes registration form to start the triage process and to get your first appointment.