Flinders Medical Centre is located at Flinders Dr, Bedford Park SA 5042. It is a Baby Friendly Health Initiative accredited hospital and, as such, supports and promotes breastfeeding. They have Midwifery clinics for your antenatal care, and this clinic is designed for women with low-risk pregnancies who would like the options of all types of pain relief in labour. One of the models for care available is provided by Southern Midwifery Group Practice. The caseload care is ideal for women who want to deliver their baby with minimal or no pain relief and be discharged home within 24 hours of the birth.
The hospital’s birthing and assessment suite is located on the 3rd floor. The Midwife caring for you will answer any questions you may have and discuss any birthing preferences. Throughout your labour, a midwife will support you, and it is also encouraged to have your partner or support person.
Hospital Address
Flinders Dr, Bedford Park SA 5042
08 8204 5511
Website Flinders Medical Centre – Maternity
Flinders Medical Centre Map
Flinders Medical Centre Services
Does Flinders Medical Centre have visiting private midwives?
UNKNOWN
Does Flinders Medical Centre have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does Flinders Medical Centre 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 Flinders Medical Centre 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?
Flinders Medical Centre 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.
Flinders Medical Centre 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 20th December 2024
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