Advice and support for expectant and new families

Find out how to make a midwife appointment and find support services to help you in your pregnancy.

Brighton & Hove's Start for Life offer provides advice and guidance to help you have a healthy and happy baby during pregnancy, birth and parenthood.

Find support services to help you stay healthy during pregnancy.

Go to the University Hospital Sussex website to find out how to choose where you will give birth.

Find out about situations when you need to re-register a birth, and how to book an appointment to do so.

Go to the GOV.UK website to find out what time off and pay you might be eligible for when you take time off to have a baby.

Go to the GOV.UK website to find out what paternity pay and leave you might be eligible for when you take time off because your partner’s having a baby, you're adopting a child or having a baby through a surrogacy arrangement.