Maternity information and resources

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  Breastfeeding and lactation support in the community flyer.pdf (652.05 KB)
• Sleeping on your side information by Safer Baby
• Information about your baby's growth by Safer Baby
• Information about your baby's movements by Safer Baby
• Information about the timing of birth by Safer Baby
• Information about whooping cough (pertussis) vaccination in pregnancy developed by the Australian Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (information is available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog, Greek, Punjabi, Italian, Hindi, and Vietnamese.)

Information to read:

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  Western Health childbirth education flyer.pdf (95.99 KB)
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  Pregnancy information booklet.pdf (4.4 MB)
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  Eve app patient information flyer.pdf (703.35 KB)

Helpful resources:

• Growing a healthy baby booklet developed by Safer Baby.
• Breastfeeding confidence booklet on the Australian Breastfeeding Association website (booklet available in Vietnamese, Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian, Burmese, Chinese, Croation, Dari, Dinka, Farsi, Hindi, Karen and Tamil).
• Traveling during pregnancy information developed by The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)
• Healthy eating during pregnancy:
  • Pregnancy and healthy eating information from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (available in Arabic, Dari, Dinka, Hakha Chin, Karen, Persian, Simplified Chinese, Swahili, Tamil and Vietnamese.)
  • Healthy eating for pregnancy visual guide by Raising Children Network
  • Food safety information from NSW Food Authority (available in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Nepali, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.)

Videos:

• Eve pregnancy app
• Breastfeeding basics- Australian Breastfeeding Association
• Cervical length measurement in pregnancy- Safer Care Victoria

Information to read:

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  Booking your ultrasounds brochure.pdf (366.06 KB)

Helpful resources:

• Gestational diabetes information developed by RANZCOG
• Information about Rhesus D negative blood group in pregnancy from Pregnancy, Birth and Baby
• Maternal vaccinations information from Australian Department of Health and Aged Care

Information to read:

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  Water Immersion for labour and birth at Western Health brochure.pdf (603.65 KB)
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  Preparing for birth booklet.pdf (1.74 MB)
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  My birth preferences worksheet.doc (283.5 KB)
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  Emotional support during pregnancy brochure.pdf (389.21 KB)

Helpful resources:

• Pain relief choices by the Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association.
  • Epidural advice
  • Pain relief comparisons
  • Reducing third and fourth degree perineal tears
• Perineal tears information from Women’s Healthcare Australasia (available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian, Mongolian and Nepali)
• Group B streptococcus information developed by RANZCOG
• Perinatal mental health and wellbeing information developed by the Centre of Perinatal Excellence 

Videos:

• Perineal support during childbirth
• Perineal massage 

Information to read:

• Document

  Expressing breastmilk resources flyer.pdf (574.22 KB)
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  Expressing colostrum during pregnancy brochure.pdf (714.85 KB)
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  How to store transport and use expressed breastmilk brochure.pdf (354.3 KB)
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  Induction of labour brochure.pdf (254.58 KB)
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  Water Immersion for labour and birth at Western Health brochure.pdf (603.65 KB)

Helpful resources:

• Information about hepatitis B vaccine by the Victorian Department of Health (information available in Arabic, Assyrian, Burmese, Chin Hakha, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dari, Dinka, Farsi / Persian, Filipino, Greek, Hazaragi, Hindi, Italian, Karen, Khmer / Cambodian, Korean, Macedonian, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese).
• Information about Vitamin K and newborn babies on the Better Health Channel website (Information available in Arabic, Burmese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Hindi, Karen, Khmer, Malay, Somali, Turkish, and Vietnamese).