Cairns Base Hospital

June 25, 2022 SOU Forum Editors Off Pregnancy News

Cairns Base Hospital is located at 165 Esplanade, Cairns North QLD 4870. With their maternity services, you can choose different care options during your pregnancy. They offer childbirth and parenting classes for first-time parents and refresher classes for parents who have had a baby before. Cairns birth centre is separate from the main birth suite. Women must be with the MGP to use the birth centre.

At Cairns Hospital, women with high-risk or complicated pregnancies can access their treatments and support services. Before you have your baby, your midwife will be your primary carer. When you are in labour, you may contact your midwife or the birth suite so they can inform you what to do next. After you go home, your MGP midwife will call and arrange to visit you and your baby at home.

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Hospital Address

165 Esplanade, Cairns North QLD 4870

07 4050 6666

Website Cairns Base Hospital’s Maternity Services

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Cairns Base Hospital Map

Cairns Base Hospital Services

Midwifery Antenatal Clinic

PBB is unsure if Cairns Base Hospital has a midwifery-run antenatal clinic.

Preparation for Birth Classes

Cairns Base 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. Cairns Base Hospital offers this option.

Publicly funded homebirth program

Cairns Base Hospital does not offer a free homebirth program for low-risk women.

Parenting Classes

Cairns Base Hospital offers parenting classes.

Breastfeeding Classes

Cairns Base Hospital does not offer breastfeeding classes.

Does Cairns Base Hospital have visiting private midwives?

Does Cairns Base Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?

UNKNOWN

Does the Cairns Base 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? 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 Cairns Base 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?

Cairns Base 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.

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