Gympie Hospital
Gympie Hospital is located at 12 Henry St, Gympie, QLD 4570. Their Maternity and Women’s Health Unit offers an extended midwifery service to new mums in the Gympie and Cooloola Coast areas. Childbirth education and Lactation classes are available at the hospital.
The maternity service comprises an antenatal clinic, a birth suite and a 12-bed antenatal/postnatal ward with four single rooms. You will be encouraged to be upright and mobile during your labour and birth to assist with comfort and progress. Beanbags, birth balls, hot packs, and showers/baths are available, and your midwife will help you use these. Your partner can assist with the birth or cord-cutting. Staff encourage skin-to-skin contact with the baby from birth to the first feed.
Gympie Hospital Map
Gympie Hospital Services
Midwifery Antenatal Clinic
The hospital has midwifery-run antenatal clinic.
Preparation for Birth Classes
Gympie 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 Gympie Hospital offers this option.
Publicly funded homebirth program
The hospital does not offer a free homebirth program for low-risk women.
Parenting Classes
PBB is unsure if Gympie Hospital offers parenting classes.
Breastfeeding Classes
Gympie Hospital offers breastfeeding/lactation classes.
Does Gympie Hospital have visiting private midwives?
UNKNOWN
Does Gympie Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
UNKNOWN
Does the Gympie 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 Gympie 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?
Gympie 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.
Gympie 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 8th December 2022
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