Atherton Hospital is located at Cnr Jack and Louise St, Atherton QLD 4883. They have Midwifery Group Practice (MGP), where you will be supported and cared for by the same midwife or midwives for your pregnancy, labour, birth and after the birth for about 6 to 8 weeks. If you have a complicated pregnancy, midwives in the Atherton hospital will offer your antenatal and postnatal care in consultation with the Cairns Hospital obstetric team.
The hospital has 2 birthing suites, and if appropriate, you may be offered water immersion for your labour and birth. If your baby is sick or premature, you may need special care after birth. If this happens, your baby may need to be transferred and admitted to the Special Care Baby Nursery at Cairns Hospital.
Hospital Address
Cnr Jack and, Louise St, Atherton QLD 4883
07 4091 0211
Website Atherton Hospital’s Maternity
Atherton Hospital Map
Atherton Hospital Services
Does Atherton Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Atherton Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does the Atherton 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 Atherton 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?
Atherton 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.
Atherton Hospital Statistics
PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in Queensland. The following statistics are from Queensland 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. 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. Please note that QLD statistics did not tell us if spontaneous labour is artificially sped up with medication or breaking of the bag of water. So spontaneous labour in this graph includes labours that are 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.
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 2019 the Cesarean birth rate in the QLD 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 Queensland Government.
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Date page published 4th July 2022
Date page updated 10th September 2024
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