Royal Hobart Hospital
Royal Hobart Hospital is located at 48 Liverpool St, Hobart TAS 7000, offering a wide range of pregnancy care, including midwifery-based care, Midwifery Group Practice, GP shared care and more. They have four birthing/delivery rooms if you require specialised care in labour and birth. To bond with your baby, you can stay in the birthing suite space for about 24 hours. You may also be cared for in a delivery suite if the birthing suites are full or if you were admitted to the Maternity Unit.
Hospital Address
48 Liverpool St, Hobart TAS 7000
03 6222 8308
Website Royal Hobart Hospital – Maternity
Royal Hobart Hospital Map
Royal Hobart Hospital Services
Midwifery Antenatal Clinic
PBB is unsure if Royal Hobart Hospital has a midwifery-run antenatal clinic.
Preparation for Birth Classes
Royal Hobart Hospital offers preparation for birth classes.
Caseload Midwifery Practice
A caseload midwifery program is where one or two midwives care for you through pregnancy, birth and beyond. PBB is unsure if Royal Hobart Hospital offers this option.
Publicly funded homebirth program
Royal Hobart Hospital does not offer a free homebirth program for low risk women.
Parenting Classes
PBB is unsure if Royal Hobart Hospital offers parenting classes.
Breastfeeding Classes
PBB is unsure if Royal Hobart Hospital offers breastfeeding classes.
Does Royal Hobart Hospital have visiting private midwives?
UNKNOWN
Does Royal Hobart Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does the Royal Hobart Hospital 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?
Is warm water immersion available during labour? UNKNOWN
Is waterbirth an available option? UNKNOWN
Can I use an inflatable birth pool? UNKNOWN
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.
NO a birth centre is not available at this hospital.
Does Royal Hobart Hospital have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
No video available
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Breastfeeding/lactation clinic? UNKNOWN
Lactation consultants on the postnatal ward? UNKNOWN
Accredited as a baby friendly hospital? YES
Baby-friendly accredited?
Royal Hobart Hospital 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 Hobart Hospital Statistics
PBB is unable to find separate statistics for individual hospitals in Tasmania. The following statistics are from Tasmania 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 Tasmania’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 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 cesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2010 the Cesarean birth rate in Tasmania 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 10th October 2022
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