Darwin Private Hospital is located at Rocklands Dr, Tiwi NT 0810. They offer excellent, professional obstetric and midwifery care to mothers and babies in their 20-bed Maternity Unit and Special Care Nursery. For postnatal rooms, they have 14 newly renovated private rooms. The provision of care in the hospital is contributed to by a highly-skilled, integrated team comprising nursing staff, health professionals and accredited private specialists.
Hospital Address
Rocklands Dr, Tiwi NT 0810
08 8920 6011
Website Darwin Private Hospital – Maternity
Darwin Private Hospital Map
Darwin Private Hospital Services
Does Darwin Private Hospital have visiting private midwives?
UNKNOWN
Does Darwin Private Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does Darwin Private Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Hospital Facilities
Antenatal Beds
Birthing Rooms
Postnatal Rooms
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 Darwin Private Hospital have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
Coming soon
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Darwin Private Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.
Darwin Private Hospital Statistics
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 Northern Territory’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 still no available hospital data on How Labour Started in 2000 and 2020. Please message us if you have or know the statistical source for the said 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 2015 the Cesarean birth rate in Darwin Private Hospital 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 Northern Territory Government.
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Date page published 6th July 2022
To whom it m ay concern.
Hello, we are wondering how my daughter can get in to see a private obstetrician. She only found out about her pregnancy late at 21 weeks. She is now 29 weeks and the baby is measuring very small only in the 7th percentile. We are worried about this and she would like to see one doctor from now until her baby is born. We have called before and was told that there is no available appointments with anyone but we are desperate. Please advise us how we can get her into see someone. We totally understand that there will be a fee involved and are willing to pay what we have to. We have private health cover with Bupa. Look forward to hearing from you soon.
Hello,
We are a pregnancy information website and we do not work for Darwin Hospital. Unfortunately, we cannot help with this.
We wish you and your daughter all the very best with her baby.
Best wishes,
Laura-Jane