Your baby is now officially an embryo and is about the size of a poppy seed.
Please visit www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/4-weeks-pregnant/ for more information.
Personal care plans
Personal care plans will help you explore, understand and record your individual choices for pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. Everyone and their family is different, with individual needs, which have an influence on care and preferences.
You can choose the provider of your antenatal, intrapartum (labour and birth) and postnatal care.
You can make decisions about the support you need during birth and postnatally; and where you would prefer to give birth, whether this is at home, in a midwifery unit or in an obstetric unit, after full discussion of the benefits and risks associated with each option.
The animation here gives more information on what is included in the personal care plan document and how and when you should use it. Please take a few minutes to watch it.
The animation is also available in Romanian (Romaneasca) and Polish (Polska) and linked to below.
Planuri de îngrijire personală pentru sarcină și naștere - Varianta romaneasca: aici
Plany osobistej opieki nad ciążą i porodem - Wersja polska: tutaj
Please follow the link: here to access your personal care plan document, which is designed to be printed and written in, and includes sections on:
- Health and wellbeing in pregnancy
- Personalised birth preferences
- Dads, partners and co-parents
- After your baby is born
- Birth afterthoughts.
An editable pdf version of the personal care plan document can be downloaded here or updated in Internet Explorer.
This visual birth plan has been developed to be used in place of, or alongside the written version of the personal care plan document, for those whose first language is not English or those who would prefer to communicate through images rather than words.
Supplementary sheets have been developed to sit alongside the main personal care plan document:
Please remember that decisions regarding care should be made in partnership with your midwife and other health professionals and those close to you (such as family and friends).
