“The biggest change to maternity services during lockdown has been the application of national guidance which states that only one birth partner is allowed to be with a woman during labour and the birth of her baby and that no visitors are allowed before or after the baby is born.”Frances repeated that parents should continue to follow the new guidance to protect them and staff members.She continued: “We ask women to attend appointments on their own to reduce the footfall of people in hospital or health centres.“We are trying to reduce the number of face-to-face visits before baby is born and there has been a slight reduction in the number of face-to-face postnatal visits with telephone calls and video calls to mums to provide additional.