Postnatal health checks, designed for you
A Hesta Postnatal Health Check is a comprehensive assessment of your health and recovery after birth. It brings together a detailed clinical consultation, personalised recommendations and relevant blood tests to explore how you are feeling physically and emotionally.
More comprehensive than a routine six to eight week postnatal check, and tailored to where you are in your recovery up to two years after birth, Hesta Health Checks are clinician-led, include blood testing and are easy to access from the comfort of your own home.
The Hesta Postnatal Health Check
Comprehensive health checks after birth, tailored to your recovery stage
HOW THE HESTA HEALTH CHECK WORKS
A complete picture of your postnatal recovery
The Hesta Health Check is a comprehensive health assessment, designed specifically for anyone who has given birth in the last two years.
Get your at-home test blood
A qualified health professional visits your home at a time that suits you. No need to arrange childcare or travel to a clinic. All testing is carried out to clinical standards. Testing is designed to give you a baseline of your health, investigate any symptoms you might have, and to provide reassurance by ruling things out.
Complete your Hesta360 questionnaire
Take your time to share what you’re experiencing. Our clinically designed questionnaire covers physical symptoms, emotional health, medical history, birth experience, lifestyle factors, and current concerns.
Receive your personalised results
A doctor reviews your questionnaire responses, stated goals, and blood results together, supported by our multidisciplinary clinical team including specialist nurses, pelvic health physiotherapists, and mental health professionals. You receive your personalised Hesta Health Check Report, written by the Hesta clinical team.
Receive your care guide to what's next
Hesta Care Guide: your “what’s next” guide to your health, written by your Hesta clinician. It contains clear next steps that you can take to achieve your goals, whether it’s exercises you can complete yourself, or a clinical consultation with a physio, therapist or midwife. Your Hesta Care Guide is clinically-led and based on both your health assessment and what’s important to you, right now.
What the Hesta Health Check helps you understand
Your Hesta postnatal health check is tailored to your goals and stage of postnatal recovery, from birth to two years.
It includes an assessment of:
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Fatigue and energy
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Iron levels and nutritional deficiencies
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Thyroid health
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Physical recovery
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Pelvic-health symptoms
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Emotional wellbeing
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Sleep and stress
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Feeding and nutrition
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Birth or Caesarean recovery
Answers to the questions that stay with you after birth
Access expert clinicians, when you need support
Hesta Care brings the best postnatal expert clinicians to you.
Where you do need support from healthcare professionals, we’re here for you.
You can talk through your Hesta Health Check and Care Guide with a postnatal doctor that has been trained to specifically look after postnatal women and birthing parents. You're able to review your assessment, understand your results and discuss your concerns.
And if you decide you need a more specialised consultation, whether it’s a recommended physio assessment from your Hesta Care Guide or if you decide it’s time to talk to someone about how your birth really made you feel, you can find the right healthcare professional through Hesta Care. From nutrition support to emotional wellbeing sessions, Hesta Care gives you access to highly trained, postnatal clinical specialists in one easily accessible place.
*Access to Hesta Care is limited to Hesta Health Check users. Find out why here in our FAQs.
