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Rockhampton Hospital is located at 2 Canning St, Rockhampton QLD 4700. It is the largest hospital in Central Queensland and the main referral hub for the region.
Their maternity services offer extensive options for parents. What’s included are their physiotherapy, antenatal classes and information sessions, home visiting services after your birth, and they give excellent lactation advice and support to parents needing it.
The hospital has General Practitioner obstetrician care and private midwifery care. They have Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) caseload care for women to be taken care of by a known midwife throughout pregnancy, labour, birth, and postnatal period. Rockhampton’s public hospital maternity care offers services to women with a high-risk pregnancies. Also, they have remote area midwifery care.
Hospital Address
2 Canning St, Rockhampton QLD 4700
07 4920 6211
Website Rockhampton Hospital’s services
Rockhampton Hospital Map
Rockhampton Hospital Services
Does Rockhampton Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Rockhampton Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
NO
Does Rockhampton Hospital have visiting Obstetricians?
NO
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 Rockhampton Hospital have a birth centre?
Maternity Unit Tour Video
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Rockhampton Hospital Statistics
PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in Queensland. The following statistics are from Queensland 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. 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.
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.
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 5th or March 2024
Rockhampton hospital has 8 SCN beds available (well 12 but only funded for 8). water immersion and water birth are available. There is a lactation consultant on to visit mums on the ward and we are officially a BFHI hospital. There are currently however no private midwives or GP obs at Rockhampton hospital
Thank you so much for all this information Clare.
Best wishes,
Laura-Jane