Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital or RPA Women and Babies is located at 50 Missenden Rd, Camperdown NSW 2050. Their delivery ward has a lounge waiting area and a kitchenette with coffee making facilities and an ice machine for you to use during your stay.
The RPA has 9 delivery rooms with en-suite with bath and shower, water immersion. The room has large floor mats, birth balls, bean bags and birthing stools to provide women with a choice of places and positions in which to give birth. They also have2 postnatal wards with 54 beds, a combination of single and double.
Hospital Address
50 Missenden Rd, Camperdown NSW 2050
02 9382 6111
Website: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital Map
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Services
Midwifery Antenatal Clinic
PBB is unsure if Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital has a midwifery-run antenatal clinic
Preparation for Birth Classes
Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital offers 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 Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital offers this option.
Publicly funded homebirth program
Royal Prince Alfred does not offer a free homebirth program for low risk women.
Parenting Classes
Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital offers parenting classes.
Breastfeeding Classes
PBB is unsure if Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital offers breastfeeding classes.
Does Royal Prince Alfred Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Royal Prince Alfred Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
NO
Does Royal Prince Alfred 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? 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.
YES a birth centre is available at this hospital.
Does Royal Prince Alfred Hospital have a birth centre?
RPA Women and Babies Video
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Breastfeeding/lactation clinic? YES
Lactation consultants on the postnatal ward? YES
Accredited as a baby friendly hospital? YES
Baby-friendly accredited?
Royal Prince Alfred 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 Prince Alfred Hospital 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 2019 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 7th February 2022
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