We offer a range of postnatal maternity services for you and your baby.
Information for Mums
- Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding and your diet
- Dealing with nipple problems
- Expressed breast milk
- Dealing with mastitis – Mastitis means inflammation of the breast. It is caused by blocked milk ducts (non-infective mastisis) or a bacterial infection (infective mastitis)
- Bottle feeding
- Postnatal exercise
- Postnatal depression
Information for Partners
- Whooping cough vaccine for new parents
- When partners become parents
- What about Dads/partners? New dad’s handbook
- Whooping cough immunisation
Looking after your baby
- Child development: newborn to first 3 months
- Jaundice in babies
- Vitamin K information
- Newborn screening test
- Sleeping and your baby
- Hepatitis B immunisation
- Keeping baby safe – a guide to infant and nursery products
Our Services
- A program to visit new mothers at home (Information coming soon)
- Lactation/breastfeeding support for new mothers – Eastern Health Lactation Support Units offers support and care for the woman in the antenatal and postnatal period. Our aim is to reduce conflicting advice, ensure recommended advice is current, consistent and is based upon sound principles and practice.
- Mother & Baby program – The Mother & Baby Program is an 8 week exercise and education class conducted by a Physiotherapist. These tailor made exercise classes are run for women who have recently had a baby.