Pregnancy and birth

This section presents data on factors related to conception, pregnancy and delivery, including breastfeeding profiles. It includes information on maternity, teenage conceptions and breastfeeding. It is maintained by the National Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network.

Key pregnancy and birth indicators

Covers the key indicators relating to conception, pregnancy and delivery.

Supporting resources

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• PHE data and analysis tools
• Guidance to help healthcare professionals make decisions about the planning and provision of services using child and maternal health data and intelligence is available in the Child and maternal health data and intelligence: guide for health professionals
  

Maternity

• Guidance on Preconception care: making the case includes information, intelligence and tools with evidence-based approaches for how this can be embedded.

Teenage conceptions

• The Teenage parent outcomes modelling tool brings together data about factors that affect outcomes for teenage parents and their babies across local authorities in England.
• The Teenage mothers and young fathers support framework should be read alongside this tool as it can help you review support arrangements for young parents in your local area.
• The Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles support local authorities, public health leads and other interested parties to monitor the sexual and reproductive health of their population and the contribution of local public health related systems.

Breastfeeding

• A collection of indicators related to breastfeeding has been brought together on PHE’s Fingertips tool.
• Published statistics on breastfeeding, including prevalence at 6 to 8 weeks after birth are available together with guidance on how to submit aggregate data to the central system.
• PHE provides information to support commissioning of local infant feeding services.

Perinatal mental health

• A collection of perinatal mental health datasets is available here.