Delivery, Antenatal & Outpatient
Pregnancy / Antenatal Services
Pregnancy/Antenatal Care options within the Women’s Health Unit:
Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) Midwifery Team
Midwifery-led Maternity Clinic
Doctors Antenatal Clinic
Other Pregnancy/Antenatal services:
Antenatal inpatient on maternity ward (Link to description)
Antenatal Day Unit
Antenatal Classes: MidCentral does not provide these, however please read the contact list for local providers.
Further pregnancy educational material that may be of interest:
Routine tests in pregnancy
Group B Strep in pregnancy and birth
Protecting your baby against tuberculosis
Delivery
Labour and Birth facilities:
Palmerston North Hospital Delivery Suite has eight spacious labour/birthing rooms with ensuites. Five of these rooms include large baths that can be used for labouring and birthing. Each room has a telephone for free local calls.
There is no visitor’s waiting room in delivery suite. Support people need to be either in the room with the labouring woman or out in the waiting area by the lift bay.
Clients will remain in Delivery Suite for approximately two hours after birth, unless there are any complications. You may choose to go straight home from delivery suite or stay one or two nights on the postnatal/maternity ward.
Vitamin K and your baby
LMC Midwives
Further information about the women's health unit
Information about complicated birth:
Induction of labour
Births by Caesarean Section
Premature labour
Postnatal Services Information (after birth care)
Postnatal/Maternity ward as inpatient
Lactation Consultant Services
Community Midwife (Information coming soon)
Immunisation (Information coming soon)
Further postnatal education information:
The Women's Health Unit brochure
Your baby's hip check
Jaundice in newborns
Post delivery information about births by Caesarean Secion
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