Service · maternity cover 24/7
Maternity, Antenatal & Newborn Care
Care through pregnancy, birth and the weeks that follow - with an obstetrician, an anaesthetist and a theatre available every hour of the year, and the fertility unit and paediatric team in the same building.
- obstetric & theatre cover
- 24/7
- scanning and laboratory
- On site
- clinician for your pregnancy
- Named
- immunisation schedule
- Birth to 5
Our approach
Watch closely, intervene only when it helps
Most pregnancies are normal, and good maternity care mostly consists of watching carefully enough to notice the ones that are not. Blood pressure creeping up, a baby measuring small, a falling haemoglobin, sugar in the urine — these are the findings that change outcomes, and every one of them is silent until someone looks.
So our antenatal care is deliberately thorough and deliberately unhurried. You see the same clinician wherever possible, your scans are done and explained here, and your birth plan is a conversation rather than a form.
What sits behind that matters just as much: an obstetrician on call, an anaesthetist, a theatre and newborn resuscitation, available at three in the morning on a public holiday exactly as at eleven on a Tuesday.
Higher-risk pregnancies we look after
Do not wait to be told
Through the pregnancy
Four stages of care
What actually happens at each stage, so you know what you are entitled to expect and when.
- 01
Booking & early pregnancy
The first appointment, ideally in the first three months. Confirmation of the pregnancy and dates, a full medical and obstetric history, baseline observations and bloods, and an early scan.
- Dating scan and confirmation of viability
- Full booking bloods and infection screening
- Blood group, rhesus status and antibody screen
- Haemoglobin, glucose and blood pressure baseline
- Folic acid, iron and nutrition advice
- A named clinician for the pregnancy
- 02
Antenatal monitoring
Regular reviews through the pregnancy, more often as it advances, watching for the problems that are dangerous precisely because they are silent early on.
- Growth and wellbeing scans
- Blood pressure and urine screening at every visit
- Screening for gestational diabetes and anaemia
- Fetal heart monitoring
- Management of high-risk and multiple pregnancy
- A written birth plan discussed with you, not handed to you
- 03
Labour & delivery
Delivery with a midwife present throughout, an obstetrician on call, and a theatre and anaesthetist available immediately if the picture changes.
- Midwife-led care with continuous support
- Obstetric and anaesthetic cover 24 hours a day
- Pain relief options explained in advance
- Assisted delivery where it is needed
- Planned and emergency caesarean section
- Immediate newborn resuscitation capability
- 04
Postnatal & newborn
The weeks after birth, when most maternal complications actually happen and most families feel least supported.
- Newborn examination and weight checks
- Maternal recovery and wound review
- Feeding support, including help that is practical
- Screening for postnatal depression
- Childhood immunisation schedule from birth
- Contraception and family planning advice
After the birth
The weeks nobody prepares you for
Most serious maternal complications happen after delivery, not during it - and it is precisely then that families are usually left alone. Postnatal care here is a scheduled part of the service, not an afterthought.
- Newborn examination, weight and feeding review
- Maternal blood pressure, bleeding and wound checks
- Practical breastfeeding and formula support
- Screening for postnatal depression, asked properly
- Childhood immunisations from birth
- Home visits where coming in is difficult
- Contraception and spacing advice when you are ready
Questions
About maternity care
When to book, how many scans, high-risk pregnancy, pregnancy after IVF, and night-time cover.
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including all public holidays.
As soon as you know you are pregnant, and ideally before ten weeks. The early appointment is not a formality: it establishes accurate dates, picks up anaemia, blood pressure problems and infections while they are still easy to treat, and sets your rhesus status. Almost everything antenatal care prevents is prevented early.
At a minimum a dating scan in early pregnancy and growth scans later, with additional scans wherever there is a clinical reason - reduced movements, a small or large baby, twins, bleeding or a high-risk pregnancy. Scans are performed here and explained to you while you are on the couch, not reported to you weeks later.
In most cases yes, and it is often safer here than in a unit without immediate theatre access, because an obstetrician, an anaesthetist and a theatre are available every hour. Where a pregnancy needs a facility we do not have - very premature delivery needing intensive neonatal care, for instance - we will tell you early, arrange the referral properly, and continue to look after you alongside it.
Slightly, and it should be. Pregnancies after assisted conception are monitored a little more closely, and if you were treated in our fertility unit your whole history is already in the same record - so nobody has to reconstruct it from what you can remember.
Telephone +234 803 449 4096 and come in. Maternity, theatre and anaesthetic cover run 24 hours a day, every day of the year, including public holidays. If you cannot get here safely, say so on the call and an ambulance will be dispatched.
Yes, the full childhood schedule from birth onwards, along with travel and adult vaccination. Bring any immunisation record you already have so the schedule can be continued rather than restarted.
We provide comprehensive written antenatal package schedules and transparent delivery cost estimates at initial booking, with clear itemisation of consultations, scans, delivery care and post-natal reviews.
Book your first antenatal appointment early
Almost everything antenatal care prevents is prevented in the first three months. Book as soon as you know.