Birthing centres are usually more home-like than hospitals and are run by midwives. In some centres, water birth is an option.

Whether you're planning to have your baby at home, in hospital or at a midwifery-led birth centre, you should get a few things ready at least two weeks before your due date.

Advice on choosing where to give birth, including a midwifery unit or birth centre, hospital or at home, and what to expect from private and public care.

Find out what maternity services are available in rural or remote Tasmania.

Find out what maternity services are available in rural or remote South Australia

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Birth centres support healthy women with low-risk pregnancies to give birth in a home-like environment. Pregnancy care at birth centres is led by midwives.

Support people encourage you during labour and birth. The right support can help labour progress. Check with birth settings on rules about support people.

Midwife means being ‘with woman’. Midwives care for women during pregnancy, labour and birth. They work in hospitals, birth centres and homebirths.