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The hospital is located at 575 Canterbury Rd, Campsie NSW 2194. Their birth unit comprises five birth rooms and an assessment room, all with en-suite or bathrooms. Their birthing rooms have a small courtyard for you and your support person to feel the outside environment. Next to the birthing unit and postnatal ward is the special care nursery for babies that need extra attention. The Canterbury Maternity Unit, known as Waratah Ward, contains 22 antenatal and postnatal wards.
Hospital Address
575 Canterbury Rd, Campsie NSW 2194
02 9787 0000
Website Canterbury Maternity Hospital
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Canterbury Hospital Services
Does Canterbury Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Canterbury Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
NO
Does the Canterbury 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 Canterbury Hospital has a birth centre?
Canterbury Birth Unit Video
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Canterbury 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.
Canterbury Hospital Statistics
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. Labour artificially sped up refers to labours starting spontaneously but are artificially sped up with medication or breaking the bag of water.
Unfortunately, national statistics do not separate spontaneous labour and labour artificially sped up. So the Australian national statistics combine these two together as spontaneous labour.
Induction of labour in PBB’s graph refers to one or more of the following interventions used to artificially 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 caesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2020 the caesarean birth rate in the NSW maternity hospitals 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 Australia’s Mothers and Babies by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and NSW Mothers and Babies by the NSW Ministry of Health.
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Date page published 7th February 2022
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