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I want to have a good childbirth experience.
It is every pregnant woman’s wish to have a good childbirth experience. But the desired outworking of this wish varies from one woman to another. For many women it means to have quick labour, coming with the pain of labour without the need for analgesic drugs of an...
Childbirth in Ethiopia
Below is a link to very informative video clip about the work of the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia. I have been a Director of the Australian Trust of the Hospital for decades. Drs Reg and Catherine Hamlin started the Hospital to help Ethiopian woman who suffered...
SAN Hospital Birthing Unit
The Birthing Unit at the SAN (Sydney Adventist Hospital) is an excellent place to have your baby. No matter where you live the SAN is not too far away. You will have your baby in what is arguably the best quality birthing unit with the best and most experienced birth...
SAN Hospital Postnatal Ward
Today I visited patients on the postnatal ward at the SAN (Sydney Adventist Hospital). What impacted me is something I have been aware of since the Clifford Tower opened. That is how good the postnatal ward is. The postnatal ward is actually two joined (Baldwin North...
Cerebral palsy has many possible causes
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a brain disorder that affects body movement and muscle coordination. Cerebral palsy is caused by changes in the developing brain that disrupt its ability to control movement and maintain posture and balance. The term cerebral refers to the...
When should you contact the Birth Unit?
While I am available to be contacted by phone (business day hours), by email and by social media messaging you can also contact the Birth Unit 24 hours per day and if she is concerned the midwife will contact me. If you think the matter is an emergence then phone the...
Healthscope (Norwest Private Hospital) and AHSA have reached an agreement
Healthscope (Norwest Private Hospital) and the Australian Health Service Alliance (AHSA) have reached an in-principal agreement ensuring AHSA members will continue to be covered at Healthscope’s hospitals. AHSA fund members will continue to be covered in Healthscope...
Healthscope has reached agreement with BUPA but not with AHSA
Bupa Australia and Healthscope have announced they have reached a two-year in-principal agreement to ensure Bupa customers will continue to experience no additional out of pocket expenses when receiving care at a Healthscope hospital. This agreement ensures Bupa...
Private or public?
I was chatting with a midwife who works at a local public hospital after church yesterday. She told me they have been very busy. She said last year they had the highest number of births on record. The increased number of maternity bookings at this public hospital is...
Childbirth considerations when Asian and South Asian ethnicity
Australia’s ethnicity mix has been changing. This is having an impact on pregnancy management. In the past there were very few people of Asian and South Asian ethnicity living in Australia. Over more recent years there has been considerable immigration from Asian and...
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Pregnant women are recommended to receive an RSV vaccine during pregnancy
It has recently been recommended by the Australian Government Dept of Health that pregnant women should receive an RSV vaccine during pregnancy. It is free for pregnant women through their GPs. The Government website states… “A single dose of Abrysvo (RSV vaccine) is...
We can’t afford to have a baby
The Australian newspaper recently reported “Households are suffering the worst decline in living standards since the 1950s with the fall in real disposable income eclipsing those of the last four major recessions including the 1970s inflation crisis and the Covid-19...
Healthscope, BUPA and AHSA conflict
We have been getting phone calls from patients who are insured with BUPA or AHSA and who are booked for confinement at Norwest Private Hospital. AHSA funds are ACA Health Benefits Fund, AIA Health Insurance, Australian Unity Health Limited, CBHS Corporate Health Pty...
Gosford Private Maternity Services to close in March 2025
I was initially told about this by patients who live on the Central Coast. Then I read about it in the Australian newspaper and had communications from the Sydney Adventist Hospital (the San) Wahroonga and then from the RANZCOG. The information is on the Gosford...
Male newborn circumcision
I recently circumcised the newborn son of a patient, at her request. I had a chat with her about how the popularity of male newborn circumcisions has changed over the years. When I started my training to become an obstetrician doctor, male newborn circumcision was...
“Will I have normal delivery?”
Patients often ask me : “Will I have normal delivery?” I had thought, and Suzie had thought, she would have a normal delivery. It was her third pregnancy. She had had vaginal deliveries with the first two. Her second labour was only 2.5 hrs duration. This pregnancy...
Caesarean Section – what to expect
Caesarean section is either an emergency or elective operation. An emergency Caesarean section is done when there is an urgent complication in pregnancy or labour which significantly compromises your or your baby’s wellbeing (or both). This implies that continuing the...
Study hard
My oldest grandchild is doing her HSC trial examinations. She should do well. I have encouraged my grandchildren to study hard, sharing with them my own story. I was brought up in a fibro house with an outside toilet in southwest Sydney. I was the middle of three...
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