Having a baby is an emotional experience at the best of times. During a pandemic, there may be extra challenges for you and your family.

If you are feeling stressed, anxious or tearful during your pregnancy or after your birth at King Edward Memorial Hospital, contact your GP, midwife or obstetrician.

If you need to talk to someone urgently, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

King Edward Memorial Hospital will now open for visiting between 3pm and 7pm daily.

Two people are permitted to visit a patient at any one time and children can return as visitors.

Our volunteers at KEMH have been hard at work, throughout the COVID-19 period with many of them using extra time to make bags for staff to bring to and from work.

The idea was for staff to change out of their uniforms and back into their own clothes at the end of their shift.

Since the call-out, there has been no shortage of amazing creations headed our way, with the Women and Infants’ Foundation knitters and sewers hard at work and even their volunteers who usually attend the hospital site, drawing on old sewing skills, to help out.

As we celebrate International Day of the Midwife at KEMH, we recognise and acknowledge the enormous contribution midwives make to the lives of mothers and babies.

Today, women are offered an array of pregnancy care options, available to them with midwives in the hospital, in the home, in the family birth centre and in the community.