Midwifery and Maternity Services

Delivering high quality maternity and midwifery services

Every day, 10 babies are born in our district.

We offer a diverse range of services to women during pregnancy, birth and early parenting at various locations around our district, including:

• Orange
• Bathurst
• Dubbo
• Lachlan Health Service (Parkes & Forbes)​
• Mudgee
• Bourke
• Coonamble
• Cowra

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Orange

Orange Health Service – Women’s and Infants Unit

Services offered:

• Antenatal care – For women with normal pregnancies.
• GP Shared Care – Partnership with a midwife or doctor from the hospital and your GP.
• Orange Midwifery Group Practice (OMGP) – Know Your Midwife program provides care by a known midwife during your pregnancy, labour, birth and during the postnatal period.
• Aboriginal Maternal Infant Health Service – Please see local facility for information to access
  this service.
• High Risk Obstetric Clinic – Obstetric medical officers offering antenatal care to women with complex pregnancies.
• Visiting Foetal Maternal Specialist– Available once per month to support women with complex pregnancies.
• Private Obstetricians – Pregnancy care from a private obstetrician in Orange of your choice.
• Community Midwifery Program (CMP) – Care for women in their home following the birth of their babies up to 2 weeks postnatally.
• Childbirth Education Classes.
• Public and private gynaecology services.

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Bathurst

Bathurst Health Service – Maternity Unit

Services offered:

• Midwifery Led Antenatal Clinic (MLAC) – For women with normal pregnancies.
• GP Shared Care – Partnership with a midwife or doctor from the hospital and your GP.
• Aboriginal Maternal Infant Health Service – Please see local facility for information to access this service.
• High Risk Obstetric Clinic– Obstetric medical officers offering antenatal care to women with complex pregnancies
• Childbirth Education Classes.
• Public and private gynaecology services.

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Dubbo

Dubbo Health Service – Maternity Services

Services offered:

• First Visit – Comprehensive medical and obstetric history taking that referral to other services that may be required.
• Midwives Clinic – Antenatal care for women with normal pregnancies.
• GP Shared Care – Partnership with a midwife or doctor from the hospital and your GP.
• ​Western Midwifery Group – Care by a known midwife during your pregnancy, labour, birth and during the postnatal period.
• AMIHS – Referral to a midwife and Aboriginal Health Worker for antenatal care.
• Day Assessment Unit – For women who may require additional assessment and care during pregnancy.
• High Risk Obstetric Clinic– Obstetric medical officers offering antenatal care to women with complex pregnancies.
• Private Obstetricians – Pregnancy care from a private obstetrician in Dubbo of your choice.
• Community Midwifery Program (CMP) – Care for women in their home following the birth of their babies up to 2 weeks postnatally.
• Childbirth Education Classes.
• Public and private gynaecology services.

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Mudgee

Mudgee Health Service – Maternity Unit

Services offered:

• First Visit – Comprehensive medical and obstetric history taking that referral to other services that may be required.
• GP Shared Care – Partnership with a midwife or doctor from the hospital and your GP.
• GP Obstetrician – Public and private pregnancy care in their own surgery.
• High Risk Obstetric Clinic– Obstetric medical officers offering antenatal care to women with complex pregnancies.
• Outreach Antenatal Clinic – By midwives to Rylstone and Gulgong once a month.
• Childbirth Education Classes.
• Public and private gynaecology services.

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Bourke

Bourke Multipurpose Service – Community Health

Services offered:

• First Visit – Comprehensive medical and obstetric history taking that referral to other services that may be required.
• GP Shared Care – Partnership with a midwife or doctor from the hospital and your GP.
• Visiting Specialist Obstetrician – Pregnancy care for women on a monthly outreach service from Dubbo, normally with your GP or a midwife at the Community Health Centre.
• Midwife and Obstetrician Shared Care – Pregnancy care for women in partnership with a midwife and the visiting Obstetrician from the birthing hospital in Dubbo.
• Postnatal Care – Follow up care post birth when you return to Bourke up to 7 Weeks postpartum. Home visiting is subject to a maximum travelling distance.
• AMIHS– Referral to a midwife and Aboriginal Health Worker for antenatal care.
• Childbirth Education Classes.

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Coonamble

Coonamble Multipurpose Service – Community Health

Services offered on a part time basis:

• First Visit – Comprehensive medical and obstetric history taking that referral to other services that may be required.
• GP Shared Care – Partnership with a midwife or doctor from the hospital and your GP.
• Visiting Specialist Obstetrician – Pregnancy care for women on a monthly outreach service from Dubbo, normally with your GP or a midwife at the Community Health Centre.
• Postnatal Care – Follow up care post birth when you return to Coonamble​ up to 7 Weeks postpartum. Home visiting is subject to a maximum travelling distance.
• Childbirth Education Classes.

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Cowra

Cowra Health Service – Maternity Services

Services offered:

• First Visit – Comprehensive medical and obstetric history taking that referral to other services that may be required.
• GP Shared Care – Partnership with a midwife or doctor from the hospital and your GP.
• Childbirth Education Classes.
• Public and private gynaecology services.
• Know Your Midwife Group – Care by a known midwife during your pregnancy, labour, birth and during the postnatal period.
• Lactation Consultant – Ongoing consultation and breastfeeding support.
• AMIHS– Referral to a midwife and Aboriginal Health Worker for antenatal care.

Cowra Community Health – Early Parenting Services

Services offered:

• Child and Family Health – Universal home visits for new mothers to assist the transition of early parenthood into your home.
• 0-4 year Clinics – Held at the health service 3 days a week for development checks (Blue Books).
• Immunisation Clinics – (book appointment).
• New Parents Group – For new parents and their baby from birth to 3 months. Supported guest speakers from Allied Health Team and other agencies.
• Aqua – Water therapy for postnatal mothers (seasonal).
• Lactation Consultant – Ongoing consultation and breastfeeding support.

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Information on immunisation during pregnancy

If you are seeking information on immunisation during pregnancy, you might like to read NSW Health’s brochure on Protection and Vaccination from Preconception to Birth or, Important Vaccines for Pregnancy.

We also offer a range of immunisation programs within our Health District.

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