Western District Health Service (Hamilton Hospital) is located at 20 Foster St, Hamilton VIC 3300, providing care to women with normal or low-risk pregnancies. One of their options for maternity care is the Hamilton Model of Midwifery Care (HMMC), where continuity of care is provided to women by a midwife or more midwives to encourage a one-to-one relationship throughout pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal.
The WDHS’s maternity unit consists of five bedrooms with ensuites (three of which operate as birthing suites), baby care facilities, televisions, telephones and ‘fold out’ couches – enough room for the family to visit and to make welcome the woman’s support person, allowing them to stay. Their team consist of an extensive range of health professionals.
Hospital Address
20 Foster St, Hamilton VIC 3300
03 5571 0222
Website Western District Health Service – Maternity
Western District Health Service Map
Western District Health Service (Hamilton Hospital) Services
Does Western District Health Service have visiting private midwives?
UNKNOWN
Does Western District Health Service have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does Western District Health Service (Hamilton Hospital) have visiting Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Hospital Facilities
Antenatal Beds
Birthing Rooms
Postnatal Beds
Special Care Nursery Beds
Neonatal Intensive Care Beds
Are there birth pools available for labour and birth?
Birth centres are designed to be a home away from home. A birth centre is a separate unit located away from the standard birth unit. Birth centres encompass a philosophy that pregnancy and birth are normal, natural events in the life of a woman and her family.
Does Western District Health Service (Hamilton Hospital) have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
PBB does not have a birth suite tour video available.
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Western District Health Service (Hamilton Hospital) is accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program. The hospital supports breastfeeding, and lactation specialist midwives are on-hand to ensure babies are feeding well before going home.
Western District Health Service (Hamilton Hospital) Statistics
PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in Victoria. The following statistics are from Victoria as a whole.
How a woman’s labour starts influences the chance interventions in labour. If labour starts spontaneously, there is less likelihood of interventions. In addition, if a woman has an induction of labour there is an increased chance of further interventions. In the above graph, spontaneous labour refers to labour that starts on its own. Furthermore, please note that Victoria’s statistics did not tell us if spontaneous labour is artificially sped up with medication or breaking of the bag of water. Therefore, this graph’s spontaneous labour includes labours sped up by medical intervention.
Induction of labour in PBB’s graph refers to one or more of the following interventions used to start labour:
- Artificial rupture of membranes
- Balloon catheter to open the cervix
- Prostaglandins placed in the vagina
- Synthetic oxytocin drug to start or speed up labour
No labour is when a woman has an elective (non-emergency) caesarean before labour starts.
There’s no available data on How Labour Started in 2015 and 2020. Please contact us if you have access to the statistics for the missing years.
Since 1985, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended countries keep the caesarean birth rate between 10–15% to ensure mortality rates are kept low for mothers and babies (WHO’s last statement update was April 2015). Since 1995 the cesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2010 the Cesarean birth rate in Victoria was more than double the WHO recommendation.
A small number of breech babies are born vaginally. Instrumental births include forceps birth and vacuum extraction. The caesarean birth rate includes both elective (planned) and emergency (unplanned) caesarean births.
Please note that even though there is a dramatic increase in interventions in labour and caesarean birth – there is no change in the perinatal death rate.
PBB attained the data in the statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
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Date page published 18th September 2024
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