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Shared Pregnancy Care

Shared maternity care is a model of care where your pregnancy care is shared between your private midwife (or other care provider such as a GP) and the public hospital you are booked to have your baby at. This allows you to have continuity of care throughout your pregnancy and post-natal period with a care provider of your choice.

If you choose this model of care, the majority of your appointments are with your private midwife, and you usually have two to three appointments with the hospital. Your baby will be born in hospital and you have access to all of the allied care the hospital offers if required, but the majority of your visits are with your midwife in the community. Visits with your private midwife will take place in your home and will include all of your routine clinical care and testing. If indicated, Emily can order blood tests, ultrasounds and prescribe medications you may require.

This model of care offers the gold standard in maternity care; continuity of care. Midwives are the experts in healthy, low risk pregnancy and birth. Evidence suggests that this model of care is associated with improved outcomes for mums and babies, and higher levels of satisfaction of care for women and their families.

You need to be low risk to access this model, and be planning a hospital birth. Regular visits usually commence in the first trimester and continue until 6-8 weeks post-partum.

To find out more about the schedule of visits for shared care, please click below:

Shared care visit schedule

Labour and birth support

Emily offers labour and birth support to a small number of families each year. This is in addition to one of the models of pregnancy care and you must be using one of these models of care to be able to receive labour and birth support. Emily will be on call for you from 37 weeks of pregnancy until you have had your baby, and will arrange for a backup midwife in the rare event that she is unable to attend.

Emily can provide non-clinical early labour care in your home according to your specific wishes and needs and provide guidance around when might be a good time to head into hospital. Emily can then accompany you into hospital, if you wish, to provide ongoing labour and birth support, advocate for you, and help inform your decision making. Emily will then remain with you until your baby is about 2-3 hours old and you have had your first breastfeed, a shower, a cuppa and something to eat!

Labour and Birth support is usually in addition to your primary support person, and a big part of this care is ‘supporting the support’. Emily does not replace your support person, she attends as additional support and a big part of this is making sure your primary support person is ‘fed, watered and well rested’ so that they can adequately support you.

Care is non-clinical, meaning it is purely physical and psychological support. As such, costs for labour and birth support are not currently covered by medicare and do not attract a rebate.

Pregnancy support

Pregnancy support is for families wanting some additional care in addition to their primary care provider. Care is tailored to your individual needs. This option is for those who:

  • Feel that they aren’t getting enough time or space for questions and education in their hospital clinic appointments. Long appointments with Emily allow for relationship building and asking as many questions as you need.

  • May require additional support due to psychological, social or physical factors eg life/family circumstances, personal history, past trauma, disability or illness

  • Would like additional support with labour, birth and/or postnatal planning

  • Feel they need additional education around pregnancy care, labour, birth, breastfeeding and newborn care

  • Any other reason that private midwifery care might benefit you and your family!

The majority of your antenatal appointments will be with your booked care provider/hospital clinic and you can “add on” to these with as many appointments that you feel you need with Emily.

Midwifery care costs

Antenatal Care

Short antenatal visit (60 mins) - $150.00 ($73.75 Medicare rebate)

Long antenatal visit (90 mins) - $200.00 ($110.55 Medicare rebate)

Short antenatal phone call (10-40 mins) - Bulk billed

Long antenatal phone call (40+ mins) - Bulk billed

 Labour and Birth

Labour and birth attendance $1500.00 (Split into 2 payments - $750 on call/booking fee payable at 32 weeks, $750 birth attendance fee payable at 36 weeks. No Medicare rebate for this currently)

 Postnatal Care

Short postnatal visit (60 mins) - $180.00 ($108.40 Medicare rebate)

Long postnatal visit (90 mins) - $250.00 ($162.60 Medicare rebate)

Short postnatal phone call (20-40 mins) - Bulk billed

Long postnatal phone call (40+ mins) - Bulk billed