Our team includes consultants, specialist multiples midwives and a midwifery support worker who all have experience of managing twin and triplet pregnancies. Our aim is to provide personalised care.
We will coordinate your care, minimising the number of hospital visits and providing care as close to your home as possible. We will offer information and emotional support specific to a multiple pregnancy.
The midwives will see you at your own home or at the place of your choice; we provide postnatal support on the ward and at home up until six weeks after the birth.
Contact the Leeds twins and multiples team
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Team Leader
Vicky Shepherd
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Matron
Julie Holmes
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Parent education sessions
Parent education sessions are offered in small groups and follow a programme together for additional support. This covers:
- 16 to 20 weeks – welcome and discuss diet, lifestyle, musculoskeletal effects on the body
- 24 weeks – labour, analgesia and operative births
- 28 weeks – feeding your babies
- 30 weeks – taking your babies home and support
- Postnatal – reunion at 6 to 8 weeks
The team were winners in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Time to Shine Awards in 2017. They received the Hospital Hero award for their positive support of parents expecting multiple births, including the development of networking events and support groups for parents.