Patient resources

Please see below a range of Women and Newborn Health Service resources created to provide information and assistance:

• After your epidural or spinal block
• Analgesics - Medicines used to manage pain
• Analgesics - Post Surgery. Your pain relief at home
• Antenatal Expression of Colostrum for women with Diabetes
• Bacterial Infections
• Bleeding and/or pain in early pregnancy 
• Blood transfusion consent information
• Breastfeeding and breast care
• Breastfeeding and Medicines
• Caesarean birth and recovery
• Caring for you perineum
• Community Midwifery Program
• Constipation
• COVID-19 and Breastfeeding for parents
• Day Surgery Unit - Patient Information
• Domperidone to increase milk supply
• Dilation and Curette (D&C)
• Family Birth Centre - A special beginning
• Following the death of your baby
• Formula Feeding
• Going Home After Vulvectomy
• Having a baby in WA – your care options
• Having an operation: Your journey
• Home Birth - with the Community Midwifery Program
• Interment of Ashes
• Intra-operative cell salvage information
• Iron Supplements
• Laparoscopy
• Medical Management of early pregnancy loss
• Medicines and Breastfeeding
• Medicines at KEMH
• Medicines information in pregnancy and breastfeeding - helpline
• Menopausal Symptoms - Antidepressants
• Menopausal Symptoms - Clonidine
• Menopausal Symptoms - Gabapentin
• Menopausal Symptoms - Oxybutynin
• Morning Sickness
• MRI
• Next Birth After Caesarean (NBAC)
• Open House Program
• Pain Management - Analgesics
• Physiotherapy after childbirth 
• Physiotherapy post-operative advice
• Post-operative day surgery instructions
• Post-operative wound care advice
• Postnatal physiotherapy information for Aboriginal women 
• Pregnancy Aquarobics Participation Form
• Pregnancy, birth and your baby
• Pregnancy loss in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy
• Pregnancy loss in the 14th to 20th week of pregnancy
• Preparing for your baby's funeral
• Safe infant sleeping 
• Tongue tie
• Vulvectomy, Going Home After 
• What you need to know while in hospital - NSQHS Standards
• Women and Newborn Drug and Alcohol Service (WANDAS) - Information booklet for baby and Mum
• Your first appointment at the Gynae-Oncology Service at King Edward Memorial Hospital