A ward in a hospital allocated for the treatment and care of women and babies during pregnancy and childbirth.
both mother and baby are now recovering at the maternity ward in Tunbridge Wells
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- The hospital also has a new neonatal and maternity ward.
- The study took place in the maternity ward of one hospital.
- The maternity ward at the Naval Hospital is a never a dull place.
- She visited the Princess Royal University Hospital's maternity ward to encourage parents to use reusable nappies instead of disposable ones.
- The nurses in the maternity ward do a great job.
- A young first-time mother was brought into the maternity ward in very strong labor.
- She was advised to go to the Infirmary due to lack of space on the maternity ward at Bury.
- Services at the hospital's maternity wards were free and they served the city's less well-off women.
- She gave birth in the Princess Christian Maternity Ward in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- Mr Jones said facilities for an X-ray unit or a maternity ward could be added into the scheme quite easily.
- An unexpected increase in the number of births has placed an additional burden on maternity wards.
- A busy maternity ward in York District Hospital saw four babies arrive in just over five hours.
- Most babies will be screened on the maternity ward, but there are babies who will require a visit to a local clinic.
- It is the biggest and one of the best maternity wards in America.