North Canberra Hospital Birth Centre Turns 10

The Canberra Times

The former Calvary Birth Centre, now North Canberra Hospital Birth Centre, opened 10 years ago. It is celebrating the milestone with a community get-together

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00:18 It's hard to believe we've been going for 10 years and there's some 10 year old children running around out there

00:23 that we actually were involved in their birth.

00:26 We absolutely love seeing families and we had a five year reunion which meant that we did a lot of talking,

00:33 a lot of cuddling with babies. It's quite exhausting and everybody wants to meet you and be with you.

00:38 Yeah, it's a really beautiful opportunity to see midwife again and you know,

00:44 being reconnected with community and people maybe that you knew when your baby was small

00:49 and it's just so joyful for us to see the families that we have been involved in, you know, really flourishing.

00:55 It's really awesome.

00:56 I've really liked having the community and the continuity throughout all of my births.

01:02 Not so much the last one.

01:04 Yeah, I was on leave.

01:06 Yeah, it's great to have the same midwife at every appointment, someone who knows your story

01:11 and then a familiar face if all goes out on the day of the birth.

01:15 Yeah.

01:16 Everyone else is very nice.

01:18 Yeah.

01:19 Beautiful.

01:20 Oh, I was going to say, I've always loved the birth centre.

01:22 Maybe I don't like being on call because maybe it's coming in the middle of the night.

01:26 But no, it's been lovely.

01:27 Like I've got lots of, I've had several mums having three babies with me

01:31 and I've got my first mum coming back to have a fourth baby with me.

01:34 Wow.

01:35 And yeah, it's a lovely team in midwife.

01:37 It's growing bigger and I think it's a great joy for midwives to see so many beautiful water births and natural births

01:45 and women trust their bodies, believe in themselves and be able to birth in a non-medicalised environment

01:52 still with backup of a hospital.

01:55 So yeah, the birth centre I think is perfect.

01:58 The rooms are nice, like big baths.

02:02 Yeah, and you do witness lots of women, even with long arduous labours, who do amazing.

02:08 And it's funny when we see them coming back to have more babies or coming back to physio

02:13 or sometimes they're copying and seeing.

02:15 So everyone in the birth centre is really looking forward to the team at New Year's Birthday Party

02:20 because hopefully lots of returning mums will come and we'll get to see families

02:25 and we'll get to see like seven-year-olds and ten-year-olds and yeah.

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