Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital is located at Butterfield St, Herston QLD 4029. They offer three options for your care throughout your pregnancy, birth, and after your baby is born: Midwifery care, GP-shared care and specialist care. If you choose to have midwifery care, a small team of midwives or a midwife will take care of you. They are all qualified health professionals, trained and committed to providing care, education, advice and support to you and your family.
The hospital’s birthing rooms have fit balls, mats, heat packs and seating for your support person. Some rooms include a bath for water births. They also have a birth centre designed to replicate a home setting with a quiet, intimate atmosphere. This room is for low-risk mothers and is subject to availability.
Hospital Address
Butterfield St, Herston QLD 4029
07 3646 8111
Website Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital – Maternity
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Map
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Services
Midwifery Antenatal Clinic
The hospital has a midwifery-run antenatal clinic.
Preparation for Birth Classes
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital does not offer 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. The hospital offers this option.
Publicly funded homebirth program
The hospital does not offer a free homebirth program for low risk women.
Parenting Classes
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital does not offer parenting classes.
Breastfeeding Classes
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital does not offer breastfeeding classes.
Does Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital have visiting private midwives?
UNKNOWN
Does Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital 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?
Is warm water immersion available during labour? YES
Is waterbirth an available option? YES
Can I use an inflatable birth pool? YES
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.
YES a birth centre is available at this hospital.
Does Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
Coming soon
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 Brisbane and Women’s 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 Brisbane and Women’s 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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Date page published 29th April 2022
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