Women's and Babies Health Resources
Here you'll find a range of consumer health information resources covering many aspects of pregnancy, birth and looking after your new baby
Pregnancy
General
- About the Women’s Assessment Service
- Caring for yourself in pregnancy – physiotherapy
- Movements matter – Your baby’s movements matter
- Perineal tears: What you need to know during pregnancy
- Prenatal Perineal Massage
Foetal Screening
Early Pregnancy
- Blighted Ovum ("Anembryonic Pregnancy")
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Ectopic pregnancy – Methotrexate
- Miscarriage
- Miscarriage – Expectant management
- Miscarriage – Information for Partners
- Miscarriage – Inpatient medical management
- Miscarriage – Outpatient medical management
- Misoprostol for retained products of conception
- Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy
- Pregnancy of unknown location (PUL)
- Surgical management of miscarriage
- Surgical management of retained products of conception
- Threatened miscarriage
Health issues in pregnancy
- Diabetes Antenatal Care and Education (DANCE) Clinic
- Diabetes – Gestational
- Diabetes – Type-2 in Pregnancy
- Diabetes – Management of during Ramadan
- Outpatient monitoring when your membranes have ruptured before 36 weeks gestation
- Pre-eclampsia
- Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in pregnancy and after birth – English
- Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in pregnancy and after birth
After the Birth
Taking Care
- Caring for your body after baby
- Caesarean section – helping you to be comfortable after
- Caesarean wound care – looking after your caesarean wound site
- Colposcopy
- Emptying your bladder and bowel after birth
- Postnatal guidelines for support persons staying overnight
- Postnatal care for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
Going Home
- Neonatal Early Discharge Program
- Home Equipment Centre
- Parenting Unit
- Postnatal Discharge Medicines
- Postnatal Home Visiting Information
Videos
Feeding
- Breastfeeding: Getting Started
- Breastfeeding Behaviours
- Breastfeeding and dummy use
- Breastfeeding: Engorgement (full sore breasts)
- Electric Breast Pump Hire
- Expressed Breast Milk (EBM)
- Expressed Breast Milk (EBM) Safe Management and Administration
- Expressed Breast milk (EBM) for premature or unwell infants in hospital
- Expressed Breast Milk (EBM) for premature or unwell infants in hospital from a COVID-positive or suspect mother
- Infant feeding
- Non-nutritive sucking
- Rooming In
- Pasteurised Donor Human Milk (PDHM)
- Pre-feeding stimulation
- Skin-to-Skin Contact
- South Australian Breastfeeding Support Services
- Supplementary Feeding when Requested by Breastfeeding Mothers
- Supplementary Feeding when when Your Baby has a Medical Need
- Using a nipple shield
- Using a Supply Line
Aboriginal Supports
Aboriginal Parent Easy Guides (Parenting SA)
Support Services
- Child and Family Health Service (CaFHS)
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
- Parenting SA
- Choices in Contraception – Fact Sheet (SHINE SA)
- Heart Kids
- Miracle Babies Foundation
- Perinatal, Anxiety and Depression Australia (PANDA)
- Safe Sleeping Resources for Parents – Red Nose Australia
- SA Dental Service