Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital & Community Health Services is located at Palmerston Rd, Hornsby NSW 2077. The hospital is one of the hospitals in Australia that offers water birth options for mothers. Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital maternity service provides care for approximately 1200 births every year. They have a Midwives’ clinic at the hospital and in the community, a midwifery group where a “known” midwife will give you care and support.
Hospital Address
Palmerston Rd, Hornsby NSW 2077
02 9485 6699
Website Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital & Community Health Services
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Maternity Hospital Map
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital Maternity Services
Does Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital & Community Health Services have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital & Community Health Services have visiting GP Obstetricians?
NO
Does Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital & Community Health Services have visiting Obstetricians?
YES
Hospital Facilities
Antenatal Beds
Birthing Rooms
Postnatal Beds
Special Care Nursery Beds
Neonatal Intensive Care Beds
Are there birth pools available for labour and birth?
Birth centres are designed to be a home away from home. A birth centre is a separate unit located away from the standard birth unit. Birth centres encompass a philosophy that pregnancy and birth are normal, natural events in the life of a woman and her family.
Does Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital have a birth centre?
Birth Suite Tour Video
Coming soon
What support is available if I have difficulties breastfeeding my baby?
Baby-friendly accredited?
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital Statistics
How a woman’s labour starts influences the chance interventions in labour. If labour starts spontaneously, there is less likelihood of interventions. If a woman has an induction of labour there is an increased chance of further interventions. In the above graph, spontaneous labour refers to labour that starts on its own. Labour artificially sped up refers to labours starting spontaneously but are artificially sped up with medication or breaking the bag of water.
Unfortunately, national statistics do not separate spontaneous labour and labour artificially sped up. So the Australian national statistics combine these two together as spontaneous labour.
Induction of labour in PBB’s graph refers to one or more of the following interventions used to artificially start labour:
- Artificial rupture of membranes
- Balloon catheter to open the cervix
- Prostaglandins placed in the vagina
- Synthetic oxytocin drug to start or speed up labour
No labour is when a woman has an elective (non-emergency) caesarean before labour starts.
Since 1985, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended countries keep the caesarean birth rate between 10–15% to ensure mortality rates are kept low for mothers and babies (WHO’s last statement update was April 2015). Since 1995 the caesarean birth rate has increased every year across Australia. In 2020 the caesarean birth rate in the NSW maternity hospitals was more than double the WHO recommendation.
A small number of breech babies are born vaginally. Instrumental births include forceps birth and vacuum extraction. The caesarean birth rate includes both elective (planned) and emergency (unplanned) caesarean births.
Please note that even though there is a dramatic increase in interventions in labour and caesarean birth – there is no change in the perinatal death rate.
PBB attained the data in the statistics from the Australia’s Mothers and Babies by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and NSW Mothers and Babies by the NSW Ministry of Health.
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Date page published 11th March 2022
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