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  • Choosing Your Maternity Care
    • Questions to ask your Midwife, General Practitioner or Obstetrician
    • What is Continuity of Midwifery Care
    • What is GP Shared Care?
    • What is the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative?
  • Where to have your baby
    • Calvary Public Hospital Bruce
      • Antenatal Clinic
      • Calvary Birth Suite
      • Education Classes
      • Shared Care
      • The Calvary Birth Centre
    • Centenary Hospital for Women and Children
      • Antenatal Care
      • Continuity of Midwifery Care – Low Risk and All Risk
      • General Practitioner (GP) Shared Care
      • Private Obstetric or Midwifery Care
      • ACT Homebirth Trial
      • Specialist Antenatal Clinic
      • Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU)
      • Fetal Medicine Unit
    • Calvary John James Hospital
    • Queanbeyan District Health Service
    • Home Birth
  • Choice, Consent and Decision Making – Your Body, Your Baby
    • Things to think about
    • Antenatal Care
    • Birth Plan
    • Safe Motherhood
  • Birth Support
    • Doulas
    • Private Midwives
  • Medical Terms Used During Pregnancy
  • Blood Tests and Ultrasounds
    • Ultrasound Services in the ACT
  • Immunisations During Pregnancy
  • Health and Wellbeing
    • Common Discomforts in Early Pregnancy
      • Morning Sickness
    • Food and Nutrition During Pregnancy
      • Folate and Folic Acid
      • Foods to Avoid and Food Safety
    • Prescriptions and Over the Counter Medications and Supplements
    • Smoking, Drugs and Alcohol
  • Complications in Early Pregnancy
    • Miscarriage
    • Bleeding
    • Hyperemesis Gravidarum (severe vomiting)
    • Anaemia in Pregnancy
  • Twins and Multiple Births
  • Single Parents
  • Young Women
    • Support Services for Young Women
  • Unplanned or Unwanted Pregnancy
    • Support Services for Unplanned or Unwanted Pregnancy

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