What should go in a maternity passport?

A maternity passport can include communication needs, birth preferences, reasonable adjustments, distress triggers, contact details, and information that helps maternity teams give more consistent support.

Can I use a maternity passport from booking to postnatal care?

Yes. A maternity passport can help keep important information visible across booking appointments, antenatal care, labour and birth, postnatal care, discharge, and follow-up.

Can partners or carers help complete a maternity passport?

Yes. A partner, family member, or carer can help complete the maternity passport so communication support and preferences are captured clearly.

How do I share a maternity passport with maternity staff?

Know Me is designed so the maternity passport can be previewed, downloaded, printed, or emailed to share with midwives, obstetric teams, and hospital staff.

Maternity Passport

by Know Me

Share your preferences, needs, and contacts with your maternity team.

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Prefer a paper or offline version?

Download a blank Know Me maternity passport template to type into offline in a PDF app, or print and complete by hand.

Create your maternity passport

Fill this in to create a one-page summary you can download or email to maternity teams.

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About Me

My name is

I like to be called

Date of birth

How to contact me Email address: Phone number:

Date I'm expecting to give birth (EDD):

In case of emergency (ICE) contact:

Blood group:

How I would like to give birth (caesarean/vaginal):

Where I plan to give birth:

Where I will go if I have a concern about pregnancy:

Phone numbers:

Community midwife's phone number:

Hospital phone number:

GP phone number:

My Pregnancy

How many pregnancies I have had:

Things I am excited about for this pregnancy:

Things that interest me about this pregnancy:

Things I am worried about in this pregnancy:

Appointments

Why it is important that I get reasonable adjustments?

Reasonable adjustments will help me:

attend all of my appointments
understand what is being said
make decisions for myself that I am comfortable with
feel in control of my pregnancy and birth

When I'm waiting for my appointment, these reasonable adjustments will help me (please tick):

I will wait outside the hospital Please call me on my mobile when you are ready for me

Please give me a quiet space where I can wait Please come and get me when it's my turn

I will wait in the waiting area Please let me know it's my turn by…

I will wear ear defenders/headphones while waiting Please let me know it's my turn by…

When communicating, these reasonable adjustments will help me:

Please talk slowly, clearly and succinctly

Please give me time to process what you are saying

Please give me time to respond

Talk me through procedures slowly, step by step

Please write down the key points I need to remember

Please email me a summary of key points after my appointment

Things that might cause me distress in health and/or care settings (e.g. hospital/GP surgery):

Loud Noise

Intense smells

Bright lights

People touching me

I find needles distressing

I experience pain intensely

I can't feel pain

I cannot tell you that I'm in pain, even though I am

Things that help me feel more settled:

Wearing a weighted blanket

Bouncing on an exercise ball

Wearing sunglasses

Wearing ear defenders

Using headphones

My preferences when having ultrasound scans:

I prefer abdominal ultrasounds only

I will tuck the towel into my pants myself

I will put the gel on myself

I will wipe the gel off myself

Tell me the sex of my baby

Other ultrasound preferences

My Birth Plan

How to help if I experience sensory overload

What sensory overload feels like for me

What I might do when I am in sensory overload

How you can help me

How do you want to send it?

Who filled in this passport

Your address

Your postcode

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Email address

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