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Pregnancy appointments can feel overwhelming when information, communication, sensory environments or appointment structures do not meet your needs. This antenatal reasonable adjustments template offers practical ideas you can discuss with your maternity team, including written summaries, appointment reminders, flexible appointment times, continuity of carer, accessible information and permission to record conversations. You do not need to use every suggestion. Choose the adjustments that would make your care feel clearer, safer and more manageable, and ask for them to be recorded in your maternity notes or care plan. Under the Equality Act 2010, healthcare providers have a legal duty to consider reasonable adjustments for disabled people, including many neurodivergent people.

Your need for accessible care does not end after your baby is born. The postnatal period can involve new information, unfamiliar procedures, disrupted routines, sensory overload and significant physical and emotional demands. This postnatal reasonable adjustments template includes ideas such as written discharge information, clearer explanations, additional processing time, quieter spaces, feeding support, home-based appointments where available and access to professionals who understand neurodivergence. Your needs may also change after birth. You can ask for your adjustments to be reviewed, updated and recorded so that everyone involved in your care understands how best to support you.

Birth environments can be unpredictable, busy and sensory-intensive. This birthing reasonable adjustments template can help you communicate what you need to feel safer, more informed and more in control during labour and birth. It includes suggestions relating to lighting, noise, physical touch, communication, step-by-step explanations, comfort items, staff changes and knocking before entering. You can include these preferences in your birth plan and discuss them with your maternity team before labour wherever possible. Reasonable adjustments are not special treatment. They are practical changes that can reduce distress, support communication and help you participate meaningfully in decisions about your care.