Where to birth in the Hunter?

We have several public hospitals in the Newcastle, Lake Mac and Hunter Region offering traditional care.

We have several public hospitals in the Newcastle, Lake Mac and Hunter Region offering traditional care.

Newcastle Private Hospital offers birth options for patients with the right private health insurance coverage., or who wished to be billed out of pocket.

In the Hunter, women have three, great, government funded one-to-one, continual care programs.

Under the John Hunter Hospital Umbrella and through Belmont Midwife Group Practise, mothers birth at home, or at Belmont Hospital at the Birth Centre.

You can hire your own chosen private midwife to either support your hospital journey or birth as a Homebirth (when you chat ask your midwife to explain what support she is able to give in the hospitals jurisdiction).
A Private Midwife can be a great and special experience and alternative option to the Belmont Homebirth Program.

Legally you may choose to be your own birth care team. You have full autonomy over where and with whom you birth. If you have heard of freebirth and are considering it, it is important to balance and factor ALL aspects of your circumstances, needs and motivations, women birthing from a place of fear or desperation must be careful not to 'assume' freebirth is a simple or easy/cheaper answer.