Welcome to the heart of Cuidiú – Irish Childbirth Trust's (ICT) ‘Consumer Guide to the Maternity Services in Ireland’– the page that provides you with the information you require about your local maternity unit(s).  Find our about your unit’s policies and practices on antenatal and postnatal care, care during labour, breastfeeding support and other topics by clicking on the link below.  Also provided is a file for each hospital showing birthing statistics for 2005.  (For comparisons of key birth stats across all the maternity units in Ireland please click here.)

County	Maternity Unit	Policies & Practices	Birth Statistics 2005
Cavan	Cavan General Hospital	Click here	Click here
	Midwifery-Led Unit at CGH	Click here	Click here
Cork	Bons Secours (closed 2007)	No response was received	No response was received
	Erinville (closed 2007)	N/A *	Click here
	St. Finbarr's (closed 2007)	N/A *	Click here
	Cork Univ. Mat. Hosp. (opened 2007)	**	N/A ***
Donegal	Letterkenny General Hospital	Click here	Click here
Dublin	Coombe Women's Hospital	Click here	Click here
	Mount Carmel	Click here	Click here
	National Maternity Hospital	Click here	Click here
	Rotunda Hospital	Click here	Click here
Galway	Portiuncula Hospital	Click here	Click here
	University College Hospital Galway	Click here	Click here
Kerry	Kerry General Hospital	Click here	Click here
Kilkenny	St. Luke's General Hospital	Click here	Click here
Laois	Midland Regional Hosp. Portlaoise	Click here	Click here
Limerick	Limerick Regional Maternity Hosp.	Click here	Click here
Louth	Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital	Click here	Click here
	Midwifery-Led Unit at OLOLH	Click here	Click here
Mayo	Mayo General Hospital	Click here	Click here
Sligo	Sligo General Hospital	Click here	Click here
Tipperary	South Tipperary General Hospital	Click here	Click here
Waterford	Waterford Regional Hospital	Click here	Click here
Westmeath	Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar	Click here	Click here
Wexford	Wexford General Hospital     Wexford Community Midwives	Click here Click Here	Click here

* We have not included policies and practices information from either the Erinville or St. Finbarr's hospitals in Cork as both units closed in early 2007 and such information would be irrelevant.  We have included the birth statistics from both units to make the nationwide data as complete as possible for 2005.

** CUMH did not provide Cuidiú ICT with this information as there were interim polices and practices in place at the time of request.  Contact the hospital directly for a copy of the final guidelines when available.

*** As CUMH opened in early 2007 there are no birth statistics for 2005.

Information on how to use this Consumer Guide and on what you might expect in the different Maternity Services in Ireland can be found here.