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The Royal Hospital for Women is located at Barker St, Randwick NSW 2031. The hospital has been one of Australia’s foremost specialist hospitals for women and babies since its early beginnings as New South Wales first ‘lying-in’ hospital for women in 1820. Each year the Royal Hospital for Women at Randwick has more than 4200 born and looks after more than 600 premature babies.
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Royal Hospital for Women Services
Does Royal Hospital for Women have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Royal Hospital for Women have visiting GP Obstetricians?
NO
Does Royal Hospital for Women 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 Royal Hospital for Women have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Royal Hospital for Women 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.
Royal Hospital for Women 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 23rd February 2022. Updated on 26th July 2022
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