Midwife on call: Domino service delivers the goods to mums and babies

To mark Mother’s Day, Helen O’Callaghan talks to midwives and experts about the growing woman-centred Domino service in Ireland.

ONCE pregnancy’s confirmed, more and more women living within 10km of Cork University Maternity Hospital are phoning to get on its Domino service.

Since Domino started at CUMH in June 2014, 488 women have used domiciliary care in and out of hospital (on an annual basis, the service accounts for 6.1% of total births).