Calvary North Adelaide Hospital

Calvary North Adelaide Hospital is located at 89 Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide, SA 5006. It is one of the best equipped Maternity Units in South Australia with a Level 5 special care nursery, Intensive Care Unit and 24-hour onsite Doctor giving you peace of mind that you and your baby will have the very best care.

The hospital offers a comprehensive prenatal education program run by their dedicated midwives to provide you with information, support and guidance as you and your family prepare for your pregnancy and parenting journey. Sadly, face-to-face classes are cancelled because of the pandemic, but they are currently working on producing an informative video for it.

During your stay, before or after the birth of your baby, they ensure that you’ll be comfortable as possible. Hence, their rooms are spacious, with ensuite bathrooms and baby baths, space for your partner, a breastfeeding chair and more. Also, some of their rooms allow you to witness the spectacular views of North Adelaide and the city.

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Hospital Address

89 Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide SA 5006

08 8239 9100

Website Calvary North Adelaide Hospital – Maternity

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Calvary North Adelaide Hospital Services

Midwifery Antenatal Clinic

The hospital has no midwifery-run antenatal clinic.

Preparation for Birth Classes

Calvary North Adelaide Hospital offers preparation for birth classes.

Caseload Midwifery Practice

A caseload midwifery program is where one or two midwives care for you through pregnancy, birth and beyond. The hospital does not offer this option.

Publicly funded homebirth program

The hospital does not offer a free homebirth program for low risk women.

Parenting Classes

Calvary North Adelaide Hospital offers parenting classes.

Breastfeeding Classes

PBB is unsure if Calvary North Adelaide Hospital offers breastfeeding classes.

Does Calvary North Adelaide Hospital have visiting private midwives?

UNKNOWN

Does Calvary North Adelaide Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?

UNKNOWN

Does Calvary North Adelaide 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?

Is warm water immersion available during labour? UNKNOWN

Is waterbirth an available option? NO

Can I use an inflatable birth pool? NO

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.

NO a birth centre is not available at this hospital.

Does Calvary North Adelaide Hospital have a birth centre?

Maternity Services Video

What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?

Breastfeeding/lactation clinic? UNKNOWN

Lactation consultants on the postnatal ward? UNKNOWN

Accredited as a baby friendly hospital? NO

Baby-friendly accredited?

Calvary North Adelaide Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.

Calvary North Adelaide 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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