Dear Nicole,
You have to ring the Birth Centre on 36368966 ASAP to put your name down for
the ballot - we will be drawing the ballot for those women due in December
on 15th May so ring soon. You have to be well, not on long term medication,
not previous LUSCS, not PPH that needed a transfusion and if this is your
second etc baby that your previous pregnancy and birth went well.
Meantime you have to also book into the RWH when you ring the booking in
clinic you will be given an appointment to come to the antenatal clinic to
book in, at this appointment you would tell the Midwife that you have your
name down for the Birth Centre and they will then book you in to see one of
the consultant clinics to be passed for the Birth Centre. At this
appointment (about 2-4 weeks after the initital booking in appointment) you
MUST get the doctor to write in your notes that you have been passed to come
to the Birth Centre, unless the doctors has a medical reason why you and/or
your baby are unwell this should be OK.
You do not have to have an USS to be passed to come to the Birth Centre if
you do not wish to have one - most do.
In the mean time we would have probably have done the ballot for December 04
and you would be receiving a letter - regardless whether you will be offered
a place. Do not assume if you do not receive a letter you do not have a
place - letters do go astray, and please let us (Birth Centre) know if any
details change i.e. address, phone number, it is amazing how many women move
and forget to tell us and miss out.
If you get a letter offering a place it will be on proviso that you will be
passed by the doctor - once you have been passed high tail it up to the
fifth floor of the RWH follow the signs to the Birth Centre and say 'I have
just been passed, and I have been offered a place, who is my Midwife' and
they will tell you and book you in for your first appointment with her.
If you get a letter saying that you have not got a place - don't dispair -
go through the motions of booking in, getting passed, coming up to the Birth
Centre and telling us that you have been passed. We have a waiting list of
those who were initially unsuccessful and we pick up from this list when a
space may become available. If you have been passed we write this next to
your name and if we ring you and offer you a place at a later date, you then
do not have to go back to clinic to be passed and it cuts a lot of red tape.
In the mean time for those women on our waiting list there are some other
options.
1. you can also get passed for the Phoenix/Pegasus projects. These are the
same models of Midwifery care offered by the RWH. They are a team of four
Midwives who care for you during your antenatal care, and if possible, one
of them would be available to look after you during labour in birth suite
and in the postnatal ward.
2. Share care with your GP
Please ring the Birth Centre as soon as possible and a Midwife will be able
to help you with any further information you may need.
DO NOT wait until later. Most of our mothers know that they have to ring
and put their name down AS SOON AS THEY KNOW THEY ARE PREGNANT. You do not
have to book into the hospital prior to calling us.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Anne Clarke
Midwife, Birth Centre RWH Brisbane
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