Royal North Shore Hospital is located at 29 Pacific Hwy, North Sydney NSW 2060. Their birth unit includes mats, birth balls, bean bags, and a birthing pool for women who choose to have a water birth. They have 9 birthing rooms, and 8 of these rooms have specially designed bathtubs allowing water births.
The hospital’s maternity unit offers 40 beds comprising single and shared rooms with ensuites. They also have a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that contains 32 cots.
Hospital Address
29 Pacific Hwy, North Sydney NSW 2060
02 9926 7111
Website Royal North Shore Hospital
Hospital’s Map
Royal North Shore Hospital Services
Does Royal North Shore Hospital have visiting private midwives?
NO
Does Royal North Shore Hospital have visiting GP Obstetricians?
NO
Does Royal North Shore Hospital 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 Royal North Shore 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?
Royal North Shore Hospital is not accredited under the global Baby Friendly Health Initiative program.
Royal North Shore 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 22nd February 2022
Hi,
I am currently 18 weeks pregnant and my baby is due on 14 October 2024.
My Obstetrician-gynecologist is Dr Anne MacGibbon who deliveries babies at the RNSH public as well as North Shore Private.
Could you please provide me with a quote if I deliver at Royal North Shore Public Hopital with my private OBGYN including Anaesthetist, surgical assistance fees (if I have a C section) and Paediatrician fees.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards,
MARYAM DEHSABZI
E: maryam_d@hotmail.com | M: 0432339231
Good afternoon, Maryam.
Thank you for visiting Pregnancy Birth and Beyond and for leaving a comment on this page.
Pregnancy Birth and Beyond is a private business and is not associated with any hospital or health districts.
Please contact RNSH directly with any questions you may have.
Warm Regards,
Luka
Hi,
My name is July who is the citizen in Australia and currently living in overseas for work.
I am planning to go back to Australia just before 33weeks of my pregnancy(I am having twins).
Would l be able to choose to have either c-section or natural birth?
Can my partner stay with me? As well as could you please guide me the cost of the surgery/natural birth and hospitalisation?
Thanks
Hi July
Thank you for visiting Pregnancy Birth and Beyond. We are a private business and are not associated with any hospital.
Please contact Royal North Shore Hospital directly for any questions you may have.
Hi there I will be delivering in September 2025, could someone please contact me as to how to proceed with a pooling and costs involved for public