Deciding where to give birth
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Depending on where you live in the NHS Highland area, you’ll be offered choices and advice as to where you can give birth.
Deciding where to give birth
Planning your baby’s birth is important. Your midwife will help you with this, and ensure you have all the information you need to make the right decisions for you and your family. We support women to have a choice of birth place, as this has been shown to have a positive effect on the birth experience.
Depending on where you live in the NHS Highland area, you’ll be offered choices and advice as to where you can give birth. You might be offered:
- birth in a community midwifery unit supported by midwives
- a home birth
- birth in a hospital supported by midwives and doctors
Birthplace decisions
Information is available from the Scottish Government for pregnant women and partners on planning where to give birth.
Maternity in particular areas
Maternity in Moray
If you live in Moray and would like to make an expense claim for mileage or accommodation relating to the birth of your baby in Aberdeen, see information from NHS Grampian maternity services.
Maternity in Caithness
See a toilet stop map to help pregnant women travelling between Caithness and Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
The Safe Provision of Maternal and Neonatal Services at Caithness General Hospital review (pdf, November 2016) recommended that the model for maternity services in Caithness be changed for safety reasons, to reduce neonatal transfers.