Before your baby is born

Supporting a health pregnancy

• Healthy eating during pregnancy
• Healthy weight gain in pregnancy
• Exercising during pregnancy
• Oral health during pregnancy
• Pelvic floor in pregnancy
• Important information for fathers who smoke
• Important information for mothers who smoke

Mental Health

• Perinatal Mental Health (COPE – Centre of Perinatal Excellence)

Diabetes in pregnancy

• Diabetes in pregnancy
• Gestational Diabetes - caring for yourself and your baby

Important information during your pregnancy

• Prenatal screening
• What to expect during pregnancy
• Safer Baby Bundle Initiative
• Information for parents and carers - best practice guidelines
• Partner's guide to pregnancy
• Pregnancy Health Records - useful information
• Parent information about seatbelts and pregnancy
• Preterm Birth Prevention – Cervical Length
• Informed consent in maternity care
• Understanding your rights

Protecting against illness

• Protecting your baby against influenza starts when you're pregnant
• Protect your baby from whooping cough
• Pregnant and Breastfeeding women – immunisation
• Hepatitis B Vaccination Matters – facts for parents of newborns
• Vitamin K for newborn babies – Information for parents
• RSV Immunisation

Preparing for birth

• Every Week Counts
• Antenatal Expressing fact sheet [PDF 786.56 KB]
• Stages of labour
• Managing labour and birth
• Pain relief options
• Instrumental vaginal birth
• Perineal Massage
• Perineal tears: What you need to know during pregnancy
• Information for women – Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard
• Baby’s journey of labour
• When complications occur

Childbirth Education Sessions

• Session One [PDF 4198.12 KB]
• Session Two [PDF 2356.5 KB]
• Session Three [PDF 2191.55 KB]

After your baby is born

Mental health

• New parents – Adjusting to the changes and challenges in the first year

Perineal tears and recover

• Parent information: 3rd and 4th degree tears
• Women’s Health Bladder, Bowel & Pelvic Floor Support
• Perineal tears (easy English) - How to get better

Feeding your baby

• Breastfeeding
• Breastfeeding and medications
• Find a lactation consultant
• Infant Feeding Guidelines
• Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA)
• Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI)

Baby information

• Healthy hearing program
• Newborn bloodspot screening test
• Raising children – newborns
• Safe sleeping space for newborns

Information for partners

• Information and tips for new dads
• Fathers and partners (COPE – Centre of Perinatal Excellence)

Important information for parents

Save these numbers and websites in your favourites. You never know when might need them.

• 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84) and ask to speak with a Child Health Nurse
• Toowoomba Child, Youth and Family Health Centre
• Cub Care – free video consult with expert doctors for kids