The Women's is Australia's first and largest public maternity hospital.
Our Parkville team provides pregnancy, labour and birth care in hospital and postnatal care in hospital and in the home.
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Maternity overview
An overview of maternity services offered at the Women's.
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Breastfeeding Service
The Breastfeeding Service offers information and support to breastfeeding mothers up to three months after they have given birth at the Women’s.
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Childbirth Education
The Women’s provides Childbirth Education programs for all pregnant women and their partners or support people, who have booked to give birth at the hospital.
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Maternity Care Clinics
The Maternity Care Clinics are multidisciplinary clinics providing care to pregnant women with both complicated and high risk pregnancies.
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Perineal Clinic
The Perineal Clinic at the Women's provides multidisciplinary assessment and treatment for women with pelvic floor dysfunction.
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Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic
After three consecutive miscarriages, it is recognised that there may be an increased chance of a specific or recurring underlying cause for the miscarriage.
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The Cornelia Program
The Cornelia Program provides pregnant women who are experiencing homelessness or insecure housing with a supportive pathway to safe accommodation, social services and compassionate health care.
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Women’s Alcohol & Drug Service (WADS)
Providing medical care, counselling and support to women with complex substance use, dependence and assessment and care of infants exposed to drugs and alcohol during pregnancy.
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Women with Individual Needs
The Women with Individual Needs Clinic is an antenatal care clinic for pregnant women with an intellectual disability, learning disability, acquired brain injury, physical disability or sensory impairment.
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Maternity Psychotropic Assessment Service
This service is for women in early pregnancy or pre-pregnancy who are taking or have been prescribed psychotropic medications (such as anti-depressants or anti-psychotics).
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Disclaimer
The clinical information and Clinical Guidelines available on this Website are intended to provide guidance to health care professionals, based on a thorough evaluation of research evidence, on the practical assessment and management of specific clinical issues or situations. The Guidelines allow some flexibility on the part of the health care professional based on the needs of the specific patient for whom they are caring. Whilst appreciable care has been taken in the preparation of Clinical Guidelines, the Women's provides these as a service only and does not warrant the accuracy of these Guidelines. Any representation implied or expressed concerning the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any treatment or product is expressly negated. In view of the possibility of human error and / or advances in medical knowledge, the Women's cannot and does not warrant that the information contained in the Guidelines is in every respect accurate or complete. Accordingly, the Women's will not be held responsible or liable for any errors or omissions that may be found in any of the information on this Website. You are encouraged to consult other sources in order to confirm the information contained in any of the Guidelines and, in the event that medical treatment is required, to take professional, expert advice from a legally qualified and appropriately experienced medical practitioner. For practitioners outside the Women’s this material is made available in good faith as a resource for use by health professionals to draw on in developing their own protocols, guided by published medical evidence. In doing so, practitioners should themselves be familiar with the literature and make their own interpretations of it. NOTE: Care should be taken when printing any Clinical Guideline from this Website. Updates to these guidelines will take place as necessary. It is therefore advised that regular visits to this Website will be needed to access the most current version of these guidelines.