Midwives support and care for women during pregnancy, labour and birth. Learn here how a midwife can help you.

Information on the health professionals involved in your pregnancy, such as midwives, doctors and obstetricians.

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 Queensland.

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

Public hospitals are safe options for pregnancy care and birth. Midwives usually look after women having public hospital births. Medicare covers most costs.

Homebirth is an option for healthy women with low-risk pregnancies who can transfer to hospital. Private midwives care for homebirthing women in pregnancy.

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.

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Homebirths in Alice Springs, Darwin and remote areas of the NT.