Who Can Look After Me?

Deciding on your care

Depending upon where you live, your financial circumstances, how far through your pregnancy you are and you and your baby' health, you may have a range of options available to you when...Read more
Midwifery-led Care

A midwife is a health professional specifically qualified to provide the full range of care to healthy women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period (first 6 weeks)...Read more
Obstetrics-led Care

You can choose to have your care led by a doctor in both the public and private health systems. The doctors who are specifically trained and qualified to care for pregnant and birthing...Read more
The Birth

Once the woman is known to be 10 centimetres or fully dilated or she has an overwhelming urge to push, the Birth Stage or (Second Stage) has begun. The urge to push is triggered by the baby...Read more
Transition

This is the phase between Established Labour and the Birth , where the cervix dilates from 7 or 8 centimetres throught to 10 centimetres or full dilatation. Contractions are at their most...Read more
Routine Intervention in Labour

Routine interventions in labour are the care practices which are offered to every labouring woman, depending upon the setting in which she has decided to give birth. These include: vaginal...Read more
The First Hour

The first hour after the birth is a highly significant time for the new parents and the baby. The woman's body releases lifetime high levels of the hormones involved in mothering, bonding...Read more
Planning for Place of Birth

Your decision about where you will have your baby will be influenced by your feelings about each model of care, and also by where you live, your health and your baby's health and any...Read more
What to Expect

A Caesarean Birth is a major surgical operation in which the baby is born through an incision in the abdominal wall and the lowest part of the uterus. For the vast majoriity of women, it is...Read more
Home

Planned Home Birth is a choice made by a small but growing number of Australian women, who are cared for by 1 or 2 known midwives throughout their pregnancy, birth and postnatal period...Read more
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