Mater Mothers' Private Townsville

Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville is located at 12-14 Oxford St, Hyde Park QLD 4812. When you choose to have your baby with Mater, you can expect continuity of care from your chosen obstetrician, who will work closely with our team of experienced health professionals. The hospital’s maternity unit has 5 private rooms with double beds available, meaning that your partner or support person is welcome to stay with you. They have 6 fully equipped birth suites, 23 private single rooms, and eight special care nursery cots. During your stay at Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville, you are guaranteed accommodation in a private room with an ensuite.

Hospital Address

12-14 Oxford St, Hyde Park QLD 4812

07 4722 8866

Website Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville Maternity

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Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville Map

Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville Services

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Does Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville have visiting private midwives?

NO

Does Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville have visiting GP Obstetricians?

NO

Does Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville have visiting Obstetricians?

YES

Hospital Facilities

Antenatal Beds

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Birthing Rooms

6

Postnatal Beds

28

Special Care Nursery Beds

8

Neonatal Intensive Care Beds

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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 Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville have a birth centre?

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

Baby-friendly accredited?

Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.

Mater Mothers’ Private Townsville Statistics

PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in Queensland. The following statistics are from Queensland as a whole.

Queensland 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. 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.

Queensland Hospital Statistics

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.

Queensland Hospital Statistics

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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Page updated 4th July 2022