Rossendale Birth Centre
Address
Rawtenstall Primary Healthcare Centre
Bacup Rd
Rossendale BB4 7PL
All our facilities are purpose-built, clean and modern with birthing pools available in all the birth centres and on the birth suite.
Over 6,500 women choose to have their babies at ELHT every year.
We were the first Trust in the world to be awarded the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Gold Standard accreditation in 2017. This means we consistently demonstrate best practice standards around infant feeding and relationship building within maternity services.
Rossendale Birth Centre is a standalone birth centre and is alongside Rawtenstall Health Centre. The birth centre is staffed by midwives from the Burnley Birth Centre where women with uncomplicated pregnancies can give birth supported by highly skilled midwives in a relaxed environment and are able to go home shortly after the birth.
There is a family centred approach with the emphasis on sensitive midwifery care. Women are encouraged to move through their labour supported by skilled midwives and their choice of birth partners. All staff encourage and promote physiological (natural) birth by recognising and respecting the process of normal birth. The evidence tells us that women who move around in labour and are in a relaxed environment require less pain relieving drugs and often progress through labour more quickly.
Rossendale Birth Centre is a small friendly unit offering families sensitive experienced care through their labour with two birth rooms, pool and mood lighting.
Our specialist services include
- Antenatal care
- Care in labour and immediately after the birth
- Postnatal care
- Newborn examination
- Tours of the facility (by appointment only)
- Breastfeeding support
- Hearing screening
- Arranging and supporting home birth