
Maternity Obstetrics
Maternity Obstetrics
The CHU Caen Normandie maternity hospital has 72 traditional hospital beds.
It is a level 3 maternity hospital , with a neonatology resuscitation service taking care of newborns from 24 weeks of amenorrhea. We make more than 3,300 deliveries per year .
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Consulting & Team
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Health professional
- Any Healthcare professional
- Dr Adeline Pasdeloup
- Dr Anne-Laure Lepori
- Dr Anne-Sophie Lafitte
- Dr. Beaussire
- Dr Charlotte Buron-Fouque
- Dr Claire Thiberge and Interns
- Dr. Clara Oudar
- Dr Ceneric Alexandre
- Dr. Dylan Owen
- Dr Elodie Lecorps
- Dr. Fabien Labombarda
- Dr Felipe Plass
- Dr Justine Huet
- Dr Laetitia Laporte
- Dr Luc Durin
- Dr Mathilde Lermuzeaux
- Dr Mathilde Siodlak
- Dr Melanie Alexander
- Dr. Pascale Maragnes
- Dr Pauline Goupille
- Dr. Peggy Dupont-Chauvet
- Dr Quentin Meurdra
- Dr Sophie Lubrano
- Dr Stephanie Deryckere
- Dr Therese Simonet
- Dr Valérie Datin Dorrière
- Internals
- Mrs. Charlotte Mancel Arrouet and Mrs. Camille Ortega
- Professor Michel Dreyfus
- Midwives
- Sonographer midwives
- Sf Anne-Christine Paris
- Sf Gaetane Colin
- Sf Oceane Lermier
- Sf Patricia Rault
- Sf Sara Abdel Wahed
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Consultation
- Any Consultation
- Acupuncture
- Anesthesia Obstetrics
- Antenatal Pediatric Consultations
- Ante-Natal Diagnosis
- Fetal Cardiac Ultrasound
- Screening Ultrasound
- Postnatal maintenance
- Prenatal interview
- Psychologists · Obstetrics
- Breastfeeding support
- Pregnancy follow-up
- High-risk pregnancy follow-up
- Tobacco and Addictology
High-risk pregnancy follow-up
Pr Michel Dreyfus, Dr Charlotte Buron-Fouque, Dr Pauline Goupille, Dr Justine Huet, Dr Anne-Sophie Lafitte, Dr Sophie Lubrano, Dr Quentin Meurdra, Dr Mathilde Siodlak, InternsConsultation scheduleMonday to FridayScreening Ultrasound
Midwife sonographers, Professor Michel Dreyfus, Dr Beaussire, Dr Justine Huet, Dr Anne-Sophie Lafitte, Dr Sophie Lubrano, Dr Quentin Meurdra, Dr Clara Oudar, Dr Mathilde Siodlak, Dr Claire Thiberge and InternsAnte-Natal Diagnosis
Pr Michel Dreyfus, Dr Charlotte Buron Fouque, Dr Luc Durin, Dr Pauline Goupille, Dr Anne-Sophie Lafitte, Dr Dylan Owen, Dr Quentin Meurdra, Dr Mathilde SiodlakConsultation scheduleMonday to FridayAnesthesia Obstetrics
Dr Thérèse Simonet, Dr Stephanie Deryckere, Dr Anne-Laure Lepori, Dr Mathilde Lermuzeaux, Dr Laetitia Laporte, Dr Felipe PlassConsultation scheduleFace-to-face or teleconsultations,
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday & Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.Psychologists · Obstetrics
Mrs. Charlotte Mancel Arrouet and Mrs. Camille OrtegaConsultation scheduleMonday to FridayFetal Cardiac Ultrasound
Dr Peggy Dupont-Chauvet, Dr Pascale Maragnes, Dr Fabien LabombardaConsultation scheduleMondays, Wednesdays and FridaysAntenatal Pediatric Consultations
Dr Cénéric Alexandre, Dr Valérie Datin Dorrière, Dr Elodie LecorpsConsultation scheduleTuesdayAcupuncture
Sf Anne-Christine Paris, Sf Gaétane Colin, Sf Sara Abdel Wahed, Dr Adeline PasdeloupConsultation scheduleTuesdays, Thursdays and FridaysBreastfeeding support
Dr Mélanie Alexandre, Sf Océane LermierConsultation scheduleNot specified
Composition of service
- 1 university professor · hospital practitioner
- 8 hospital practitioners
- 5 junior doctors
- 74 midwives
- 40 caregivers
- 14 hospital service agents
- 12 secretaries
- 4 midwifery managers
- 1 senior midwife
- 2 psychologists
It should be noted that the teams of on-call professionals are mixed.
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Health professional
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My pregnancy follow -up
Activities
ConsultingAdmission:
To start your journey to maternity, we invite you to contact us by email (go-prise-rdv@chu-caen.fr) or telephone (02.31.27.25.25) to establish the administrative procedures necessary for your follow-up.
On the DIGIHOSP platform ( https://www.chu-caen.fr/admission/ ) , you will have it at least 10 days in advance your administrative file: identity document, your vital card or proof of social coverage and your mutual insurance company.
At the reception of consultations, your file will be checked using a terminal or with the help of one of the reception agents.The consultation unit:
The maternity consultations are on the 2nd floor of the woman-child pole, and are accessible by the elevator A.
The first pregnancy consultation will be carried out by a midwife or a doctor, who will take stock of your file and on the organization of your journey. Depending on your history and the progress of your pregnancy, your follow -up may take place within the service or in the city.
The prenatal consultation takes place every month , to check your well-being as well as that of your baby. The follow -up of pregnancy is not based only on a person, but on a team working with the same care, the same speeches.
Depending on the situations, workshops and/or specialized consultations will be organized to you. You can also benefit from acupuncture sessions if you wish.
During your pregnancy, the prenatal ultrasound aims to ensure the good development of your baby. We propose in the service to make your ultrasounds, but you also have the possibility of having them made by a doctor or a midwife in town. Three ultrasounds are recommended during pregnancy around 12, 22 and 32 weeks of amenorrhea. The medical team will tell you according to your history if it is necessary to carry out additional ultrasounds.
An individualized and personalized follow-up of physiological pregnancies is offered by the midwives of the service team. They thus provide early prenatal care, prenatal consultations, preparation sessions for birth and parenthood, and postnatal consultation.
The service also offers “breastfeeding” consultations by a lactation consultant pediatrician after staying at maternity. These consultations are paid 100% by maternity to the 12th day after birth.
Anesthesia consultation :
It will be carried out in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy, whatever the envisaged delivery path whether you want an epidural or not.
You will find in this video useful information concerning anesthesia during pregnancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_tj6h_7o8W
Hospitalization - Intensive pregnancy monitoring (GIS)In the event of a complication of pregnancy, you can be hospitalized in intensive pregnancy surveillance for a few days to monitor the evolution of your pregnancy.
This unit has 18 beds including 12 single rooms. The single or twin rooms are equipped with a shower, telephone access and a television.
Origin:
Whether you are followed in the Caen conurbation or in the region, you may need to be hospitalized if your state of health or that of your baby requires it.Being of level 3, the maternity of the CHU can take care of pregnant patients who may give birth very prematurely. This is why, some maternities will transfer you to Caen in order to optimize neonatal care. This is done within the Basse-Normandie perinatal network
Management:
the medical team (doctor, midwife) and paramedical supports 24 hours a day the patients with high-risk pregnancy, requiring specific and continuous close monitoring for the mother and/or the baby. It can be:- Threat of premature childbirth ( MAP )
- Premature rupture of membranes (RPM)
- Intrauterine growth retardation ( IUD )
- Preeclampsia (hypertension & protein association in urine)
- Metrorrhagia (bleeding)
- Severe pregnancy cholestasis
- Gestational or preexisting diabetes with very unbalanced pregnancy
- Urinary anomalies type Pyelonephritis (infection of a kidney) or nephretic colic (calculation in the urinary tract)
Your output can be declined in several modes:
- home visits are sometimes carried out after an assessment of 24 to 48 hours and relay of care by the initial referent of the pregnancy,
- Returns by transfer to local maternity is made as soon as care is possible. Sometimes a transfer to a type 2 maternity (32 to 36 SA) will allow you to bring together your home,
- outings at home, with close supervision on an outpatient basis in a specialized consultation unit of the CHU, can be offered as an alternative to full hospitalization.
Specialized obstetric consultations ( COS )This unit can accommodate future mothers requiring increased monitoring of pregnancy without full hospitalization.
Only by appointment and after advice to a doctor.
The medical team (doctor, midwife) and paramedical (caregiver) supports, every working day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., patients requiring either close and specific monitoring of pregnancy, or a programmed medical act as a version by external maneuver ...
It can also be completed by follow -up with a liberal woman in town.
It is also here that you will be summoned on the day of your term in order to organize your delivery, unless it is a weekend or a holiday, where the consultation will then be carried out in the emergency room of maternity.
The management and therapeutic education of diabetic patients are carried out every Tuesday from 8:30 am to 2 pm by a multidisciplinary team (doctor and nurse of diabetology, dietician, midwife, obstetrician) .
My support for parenting
City link - Hospital
We invite you to contact precociously in your pregnancy a local liberal midwife , even in the event of hospital follow-up, which can with you the prenatal maintenance from the 4th month, as well as the 6 sessions of preparation for birth and to parenthood supported by Social Security.
It will also be able to help you define your birth project . During a CHU consultation, your birth project will be collected with the midwife or the doctor.
Our goal is to work in partnership to support you as best as possible to the birth of your child, but also to ensure the city-hospital link for the necessary follow-up also after the release of maternity.
Early prenatal maintenance ( EPP )
Also called “4th month interview”, it makes it possible to answer questions of the administrative, psychological and social order of patients and couples who wish. It is not a medical consultation , it is a time of listening and confidential exchange with a health professional, which allows you to express your expectations, needs and projects, and which can allow to detect personal or family situations at risk, in order to offer special support.
It lasts an average of 60 minutes.
It is 100 % supported by health insurance funds.
These interviews can be carried out with a midwife from our service, or with your local midwife.
Birth and parenting preparation sessions (PNP)
These sessions aim to reassure you, to give you confidence in your ability to become parents . These sessions are also beneficial, even if you already have one or more children.
Yoga or meditation birth preparation sessions are currently offered in the service. There are “classic” birth preparation sessions including theoretical sessions, relaxation and exercises, which you can organize with your sector midwife.
A visit to maternity is available by appointment for patients who follow a PNP in the liberal sector.
The skin-to-skin
Your baby needs to be worn and hidden in skin to be reassured, comforted, warmed, soothed, to maintain its blood sugar and to stimulate your lactation.
You can count on the support of the teams to ensure that your baby is 24 hours a day with you, to strengthen the mother-child link, to trust you and to explain the rhythm of the newborn: sleep and food.
We want to make you aware of pregnancy about the demonstrations demonstrated by this practice.
Useful document(s)
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Ante-Natal Diagnosis
Antenatal diagnostic follow-upCrew :
- Professor Michel Dreyfus
- Dr Charlotte Buron Fouque
- Dr Luc Durin
- Dr Pauline Goupille
- Dr Anne-Sophie Lafitte
- Dr Quentin Meurdra
- Dr. Dylan Owen
- Dr Mathilde Siodlak
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My stay at maternity
Gynecology-obstetrics ( UGO )
The gynecology-obstetrics emergency service is at the entrance to the birth rooms.
Midwives and doctors (internal and senior doctors) welcome, 24 hours a day , patients for all gynecological emergencies (abdominal pain, bleeding, etc.) and during pregnancy regardless of the term (bleeding, uterine contractions, loss of liquid, decrease in baby movements, etc.) .
You will be received by a midwife or a doctor who will carry out a consultation, and the necessary examinations (monitoring, ultrasound, samples).
You will be taken care of in order of arrival, but especially by degree of emergency.
D-Day-Pre-work
After being received by the obstetric emergency team and in the event of a work start, you will be admitted in the birth room, most often in the pre-work room. During this start of work period which can last several hours, you will have the opportunity to go for a walk, to mobilize, to do the ball or to take a shower.
Do not hesitate to bring your breastfeeding cushion, music, personal elements in particular a gourd and a flexible outfit allowing you to be comfortable.
During your visit to the birth room, you can be accompanied by the person of your choice at any time (only one accompanying, always the same).
D -day - my delivery
The birth room:
The rest of your birth course takes place in the delivery room and is always accompanied by a venous track and monitoring tracking. We invite you to define your birth project ( my birth project ) during pregnancy, and we will do everything to respect it at best.
Support and monitoring of work are provided by a midwife and, possibly, a midwife student.
Obstetrician-gynecologists, anesthesiologists and pediatricians are present on site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can intervene if the state of health of the mother or baby so requires.
The delivery room has 11 rooms: 7 delivery rooms including two “natural” rooms, 3 pre-labor rooms and an interventional emergency surgery room.
Ideally placed between the operating room (for emergency or scheduled caesareans) and the neonatology department (for the care of newborns who require it) , the obstetrical room is equipped with computers and repeaters in each room in order to to optimize the monitoring of women in labour.
Level 3 maternity, that is to say capable of accommodating high-risk pregnancies and newborns requiring resuscitation management, the maternity hospital of the CAEN CHU has been able to open its doors to liberal midwives who wish to give birth to their patients in a secure physiological space (see below “delivery on technical set”).
Patients who want a “natural” birth (but who are not accompanied by a liberal midwife) are cared for within a physiological space by a team of midwives trained in mobilization during the labour, childbirth postures but also acupuncture.
The 2 natural rooms are equipped with a delivery sofa, a bathtub, balloon, a delivery seat and a suspension and stretching system.
Our anesthesia team will be available to manage your pain. Even in the event of an epidural ( epidural anesthesia ), you can wander in the birth room sector to facilitate the progress of work, and you will have a pump that will allow you to manage the administration of products in the epidural according to the intensity of the contractions and what you want to experience.
You will find links for some information documents concerning the low -way childbirth, the Cesarean,
The intervention of the daycare gynecologist is sometimes necessary, whether for aid for childbirth by low way or for an emergency cesarean: assistance during childbirth
Delivery on technical set:
Some self-employed midwives have signed a partnership with the University Hospital, giving them the opportunity to come and give birth to their patients in the department's delivery rooms. These are patients motivated by a physiological delivery without epidural and who meet specific medical criteria.
For this, get closer to liberal midwives; if the request is suitable, they will explain the steps to follow and will send you to the CHU Caen Normandie for validation of your file by its medical teams. If the file is validated, the liberal midwife undertakes to accompany you throughout labor and delivery and for the following 2 hours. Your birth follow-up is then normally done by the CHU teams until you return home.
At any time during the course, in case of medical necessity, a return to the classic care circuit is possible, whether during pregnancy, during labor or just after childbirth.
My stay in birth suit
The birth suite unit welcomes mothers and their children after childbirth.
It has a capacity of 48 -lits, including 42 individual rooms. Each room is equipped with a shower, a toilet cabinet and a space dedicated to the baby.
We have an equipped room for people with reduced mobility ( PMR ).
Medical and paramedical supervision:
It is multidisciplinary. 24 hours a day, midwives, doctors, paediatricians, childcare assistants, caregivers, monitor the progress of your stay and that of your child, in order to meet your expectations.
The team is committed to the fight against pain, while ensuring your well-being. Invested in the support of breastfeeding, she advises you on childcare and accompanies you towards autonomy.
Your stay :
For the well -being of our patients and babies, we advise you to limit the number and duration of visits as much as possible in order to rest and be fully available to discover your baby.
The children's visit is prohibited except for the baby's brothers and sisters.The limitation of visits is necessary to respect the pace and the needs of the newborn. The presence of your supporter is important to support you.
Apart from the Coparent and your children, visits are only allowed from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. from September 2025.
Anyone with fever or signs of infection is requested to postpone their visit.The duration of hospitalization is on average 72 hours for a physiological delivery and 96 hours for a birth by cesarean section.
To find out what to put in your suitcase, consult our specific brochure: mother trousseau · children
Most of the rooms are equipped with an extra bed for the Coparent, its presence is authorized 24 hours a day and allows you to take care of the two of your child (presence subject to the acceptance of a charter intended for accompanying people). The night and accompanying meals are paid (prices in the reception booklet and in the rooms).
Maternity outings:
They can be standard or early . In any case, they must be organized during pregnancy. Your outing takes place before noon, after having reviewed the midwife and/or the gynecologist-obstetrician and the pediatrician, who deliver your prescriptions and your child's health book. In the event of late departure, an exit fair is at your disposal until the arrival of those around you.
A return home within 48 hours of the birth is offered to you in the context of a birth without associated pathology. Eligibility for this outing is subject to certain conditions which are explained to you by the doctor or midwife monitoring your pregnancy.
If you are interested in this early discharge plan, you are advised to prepare it from the start of pregnancy, with the help of our teams.
As soon as you wish, you can contact the liberal professional who will take over from maternity, when you go out . You will meet it in the first 24 hours of your return.
These visits to your home, like those of your attending physician, are reimbursed by social security and allow you to recharge your batteries within your family, while benefiting from the expertise of a professional you know, able to advise, and to detect any anomaly for you and your child
These early outings promote family ties, while providing personalized support to your new family.
For more information on maternity leave, see our specific brochure.
The Kangaroo Unit
The kangaroo unit is a specific obstetric-pediatric unit that welcomes mothers whose children require neonatal care.
Established in the maternity ward, it takes care of premature babies after 34 weeks and/or newborns with a simple pathology. These newborns stay in their mother's room, thus preserving the mother-child bond.
The little extras
- The declaration of birth : compulsory within 5 days of birth, it can be carried out directly at the hospital. A dedicated counter, located the central hall of the ground floor, welcomes the parents (s) and takes care of the procedures, in connection with the civil status of Caen, thus avoiding a trip to the town hall. If you are not married, think of the realization during the pregnancy by the coparer of the early recognition of the child in the town hall, a document to be provided in the pregnancy file on the day of childbirth.
- Midwives in lactation consulting in the unit, but also by appointment to accompany you once back home,
- Other professionals, graduates in acupuncture , bring you their skills to respond to any issues,
- If you wish, a psychologist can meet with you during your stay.
- Films made by the neonatology of CHU Caen Normandie can be consulted.
My exit tips
Here you will find the exit advice of the Normandy perinatal network for:
- The mother: https://www.perinat-normandie.fr/apres-la-natissance/conseils-sante-pour-la-mere/
- The child: https://www.perinat-normandie.fr/apres-la-natissance/conseils-sante-pour-lenfant/
You will also find below a video with many tips, developed by the Aurore network.
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