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.
BadgerNet Maternity
BadgerNet Maternity is an electronic maternity healthcare record system. It allows real-time recording of all events wherever they occur: in the hospital, the community, or at home.
This includes both high risk (consultant-led) and low risk (midwife-led) pregnancy pathways.
Based on a woman-centred care model, the BadgerNet Maternity system comes with Badger Notes an online portal and app that allows a woman/birthing person to access their maternity records through a PC, tablet device or mobile phone.
The information that can be seen is generated in real-time from the hospital-based maternity system record, using details entered by a midwife or other HCP involved in a persons care.
All HNY Hospital Trusts now use BadgerNet systems for both maternity and neonatal care.
An example of an antenatal booking summary that you will receive from the Hospital Trust to notify you of a pregnancy can be accessed here.
Following the birth of the baby the GP will also be sent:
Key features of the system
Care Plan
- A week by week pregnancy timeline
- Information on baby’s development
- Midwife recommendations
- Update on events that are likely to happen each week
- Booked appointments
- A personal diary entry facility
- The ability for the woman/birthing person to enter their BP or pulse oximetry readings if asked to do so by a HCP.
Maternity Record
- Viewer access to extracts of information direct from medical records
- Information on care team members
- The ‘Antenatal care summary’ report will grow into a record of key pregnancy events.
Conversations and leaflets
- A woman/birthing person can submit their thoughts and questions about their antenatal care, birth plan and postnatal care to their midwife – who will review this with them at their next scheduled visit
- A full library of the Hospital’s Pregnancy Patient Information leaflets.
