Pregnancy and birth

Welcome to the department of obstetrics!

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About the Department of Obstetrics
The Department of Obstetrics is part of the Juliane Marie Centre, which is Rigshospitalet’s centre for women, children and reproduction.
Care and treatment of pregnant women, women in labour, mothers who have given birth, and newborns are the primary tasks of the clinic. Other central tasks include the care of fathers and family members.

The clinic provides antenatal, obstetric and postnatal care – both in uncomplicated and complicated pregnancies and deliveries. The majority of patients come from the Copenhagen region and eastern Denmark.
The clinic also receives patients from western Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.


The Department in numbers (2011)

• 18.000 midwife consultations
• seven delivery rooms.
• 6.000 births a year

Out of which:

• 2,4 % multiple births
• 21,7 % Caesarian section
• 15,2 % infants born prematurely
• 31 %  of women in labour get an epidural block