Ashford Hospital is located at 55 Anzac Hwy, Ashford, SA 5035. The hospital’s maternity service is well equipped, with the highest level of private critical care and neonatal care available for mother and baby in South Australia. Their labour suites are fitted with state-of-the-art technology, including a fetal monitoring system, ensuite, television, telephone and Wi-Fi. A kitchenette is available for you and your support person. One of their labour suites has a large spa bath that you can use in the early stages of labour; however, they don’t support water births.
Antenatal education is available in the hospital to support parents. They have a range of maternity education and parenting classes for mums and dads, including essential information about your pregnancy and the birth and aftercare of your baby. All programs are held here at Ashford hospital or are available to view online.
Ashford Hospital Map
Ashford Hospital Services
Does Ashford Hospital have visiting private midwives?
UNKNOWN
Does Ashford Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does Ashford Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?
YES
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 Ashford Hospital have a birth centre?
Maternity Tour Video
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Ashford Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.
Ashford Hospital Statistics
PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in South Australia. The following statistics are from South Australia 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 South Australia 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 still 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 caesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2010 the Caesarean birth rate in South Australia 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 4th September 2022
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