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whitewriterChoices for antenatal care for women who are pregnant. I'm assuming public care.
Your GP will fax a form to Westmead. Westmead will call you to arrange the 1st appt.
Regardless your first appt is approximately at 14 to 16 weeks and that's when U go to Westmead/Blacktown and get booked in by the midwife which means they put U into the system(start a file).
GP shared care
If you love your GP and they have been specially trained you can do GP shared care. For 7 of your ten antenatal visits you go to the GP and for 3 U see the hospital midwives (one is the booking in). It's good if say you don't speak English only say, Tamil and your GP speaks Tamil. Mostly GPs don't usually deal a lot with pregnant women so unless U love you GP I wouldn't bother with this.
When you go to have Ur baby, U go to the hospital and have a midwife allocated to you, obstetric team will also review you.
hospital midwives system
You go for your booking in and get allocated to a clinic within Westmead. Can be inside the hospital or at a community centre if your considered low risk.
If U get problems at any stage the midwife will escalate you to the obstetrician.
U will be put on a regular schedule for visits like, Fridays or Wednesday's or Tuesdays or whichever day U pick. Negative is U might see a different midwife each time so U don't get that rapport going but also if U don't like one of them you might not see them again so… good and bad (they're mostly all really good in the clinic at Westmead and the ones that aren't great on bedside manner have a tonne of experience so at least they have that).
Blacktown ones r cool too.
Choosing this, when you go to have the baby you have it in the hospital with whichever midwife is allocated to you for the day. U might have seen them in clinic or you might not have. There's always an obstetric team around and they review everyone (during labour) even if you don't see them much.
Caseload midwives.
Considered the gold standard for midwifery, because you get the same midwife throughout for visits and hopefully the birth. They work in a team of 2 to 3. Visits are at your house. Birth is in the hospital, they'll come in when it's your turn. If you need obstetric care you get escalated to the doctors. It can be hard to get into caseload cause only 30 ppl do it. I have a friend there so if you like I can ask her to add you.
At any stage if you become high risk they'll escalate U to obstetrics team and U may become under doctors review for visits.
As part of caseload your suppose to be low risk and, if everything is super normal and boring, be happy to go home approx 6 hrs post birth with home visits by the midwife thereafter. If there's any complications like for example bleeding or U have a cesarian, then you'll obviously stay in hospital.
I wanted to get into this one but there's only 5 case load at RPAH and I don't know them so there was little chance I'd get in.
Your GP will fax a form to Westmead. Westmead will call you to arrange the 1st appt.
Regardless your first appt is approximately at 14 to 16 weeks and that's when U go to Westmead/Blacktown and get booked in by the midwife which means they put U into the system(start a file).
GP shared care
If you love your GP and they have been specially trained you can do GP shared care. For 7 of your ten antenatal visits you go to the GP and for 3 U see the hospital midwives (one is the booking in). It's good if say you don't speak English only say, Tamil and your GP speaks Tamil. Mostly GPs don't usually deal a lot with pregnant women so unless U love you GP I wouldn't bother with this.
When you go to have Ur baby, U go to the hospital and have a midwife allocated to you, obstetric team will also review you.
hospital midwives system
You go for your booking in and get allocated to a clinic within Westmead. Can be inside the hospital or at a community centre if your considered low risk.
If U get problems at any stage the midwife will escalate you to the obstetrician.
U will be put on a regular schedule for visits like, Fridays or Wednesday's or Tuesdays or whichever day U pick. Negative is U might see a different midwife each time so U don't get that rapport going but also if U don't like one of them you might not see them again so… good and bad (they're mostly all really good in the clinic at Westmead and the ones that aren't great on bedside manner have a tonne of experience so at least they have that).
Blacktown ones r cool too.
Choosing this, when you go to have the baby you have it in the hospital with whichever midwife is allocated to you for the day. U might have seen them in clinic or you might not have. There's always an obstetric team around and they review everyone (during labour) even if you don't see them much.
Caseload midwives.
Considered the gold standard for midwifery, because you get the same midwife throughout for visits and hopefully the birth. They work in a team of 2 to 3. Visits are at your house. Birth is in the hospital, they'll come in when it's your turn. If you need obstetric care you get escalated to the doctors. It can be hard to get into caseload cause only 30 ppl do it. I have a friend there so if you like I can ask her to add you.
At any stage if you become high risk they'll escalate U to obstetrics team and U may become under doctors review for visits.
As part of caseload your suppose to be low risk and, if everything is super normal and boring, be happy to go home approx 6 hrs post birth with home visits by the midwife thereafter. If there's any complications like for example bleeding or U have a cesarian, then you'll obviously stay in hospital.
I wanted to get into this one but there's only 5 case load at RPAH and I don't know them so there was little chance I'd get in.
