A-Z factsheets - women and newborn's health
Browse our factsheets covering pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, newborn care, women’s health, and gynaecology. These resources provide practical, evidence-based information.
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- Active birth (PDF 259.31KB)
- After the birth of your baby (PDF 524.88KB)
- After the loss of your pregnancy or baby (PDF 255.97KB)
- After your Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) or Amniocentesis (PDF 643.13KB)
- A Guide to Breech Birth (PDF 615.98KB)
- A Guide to External Cephalic Version (ECV) for Breech Presentation (PDF 536.18KB)
- Airline travel during pregnancy (PDF 180.9KB)
- Antenatal Clinic Visits (PDF 362.38KB)
- Are you able to have a home birth? (PDF 613.69KB)
- Assisted vaginal birth (PDF 289.06KB)
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy (PDF 242.33KB)
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- Baby massage (PDF 254.1KB)
- Bacterial Vaginosis (PDF 294.72KB)
- Barrier Methods of Contraception – Condoms and Diaphragms (PDF 659.07KB)
- Being active during pregnancy (PDF 148.6KB)
- Birth of Your Placenta – Third Stage Management (PDF 505.34KB)
- Bowel MRO (Multiple antibiotic-Resistant Organisms) in pregnancy (PDF 831.22KB)
- Breast Hypoplasia (reduced breast tissue) (PDF 2.52MB)
- Breastfeeding after an MRI, CT or VQ scan (PDF 798.15KB)
- Breastfeeding and having surgery (PDF 327.77KB)
- Breastfeeding - Expressing breast milk (PDF 310.06KB)
- Breastfeeding - Helping Baby to breastfeed (PDF 613.48KB)
- Breastfeeding - How your breasts make milk (PDF 547.33KB)
- Breastfeeding - How to use a nipple shield (PDF 453.89KB)
- Breastfeeding in the neonatal nursery - Getting started after birth (PDF 1.22MB)
- Breastfeeding - Tongue tie (PDF 1.79MB)
- Breastfeeding - Using Domperidone to increase breastmilk supply (PDF 422.87KB)
- Breastfeeding - When baby is not breastfeeding well (PDF 1017.01KB)
- Breastfeeding with Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C (PDF 3.01MB)
- Breastfeeding your baby after an MRI or CT scan (PDF 798.15KB)
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- Can I see a female member of the health care team (PDF 2.26MB)
- Car seats for children (PDF 387.04KB)
- Caring for your early or small baby in hospital and at home (Late preterm and small for gestational age infants) (PDF 410.38KB)
- Caring for your feelings during pregnancy and after birth (PDF 1.12MB)
- Caring for your perineum (PDF 367.03KB)
- Carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnancy (PDF 770.2KB)
- Cervix - Treatment after Abnormal Pap Test (LLETZ)
- Childbirth and Parenting Education Courses
- Children and funerals (PDF 418.69KB)
- Chlamydia (PDF 259.05KB)
- COCOON - Continuity of Care Out of Neonatal Intensive Care (PDF 621.65KB)
- Colostrum - Hand expressing of colostrum (the first milk) during pregnancy (PDF 698.84KB)
- Colposcopy (PDF 500.09KB)
- Cone biopsy of the cervix (PDF 513.05KB)
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (PDF 701.46KB)
- Contraception (PDF 291.83KB)
- Coping with cancer and Christmas (PDF 242.86KB)
- COSMiC Student Midwifery Group Practice (PDF 506.3KB)
- COVID-19 vaccination and pregnancy (PDF 424.94KB)
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- Eating well (PDF 258.54KB)
- Eating well with gestational diabetes (PDF 216.1KB)
- Ectopic Pregnancy Management Options (PDF 309.83KB)
- Emergency Contraception (PDF 277.4KB)
- Endometriosis (PDF 604.16KB)
- Exercise before and after birth (PDF 615.99KB)
- Expressing breast milk for your baby in the nursery (PDF 439.83KB)
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- G6PD deficiency (Favism) (PDF 501.31KB)
- Gastroschisis (PDF 816.59KB)
- GBS (Group B Streptococcus) in pregnancy (PDF 585.3KB)
- GBS (Group B Streptococcus) - Taking baby home (PDF 4.13MB)
- Genital herpes (PDF 368.1KB)
- Genital warts (PDF 327.73KB)
- Gestational diabetes (PDF 219.05KB)
- Gestational weight gain (PDF 455.17KB)
- Getting a good night’s sleep when you’re diagnosed with cancer (PDF 833.49KB)
- Giving birth - what you need to know (PDF 625.67KB)
- Glossary of Medical Conditions Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PDF 545.08KB)
- Glossary of Medical Terminology Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PDF 493.82KB)
- Gonorrhoea (PDF 260.62KB)
- Graves' disease (PDF 382.03KB)
- Group B Streptococcus in pregnancy – GBS (PDF 585.3KB)
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- Hand expression of colostrum during pregnancy (PDF 698.84KB)
- Having a baby by Caesarean section (PDF 222.08KB)
- Health advice for women who are trying for a baby (Pre-conception counselling) (PDF 759.96KB)
- Heavy Periods – Menorrhagia (PDF 705.4KB)
- Helping children deal with grief (PDF 348.77KB)
- Herbal medicines in pregnancy and breastfeeding
- HIV testing (PDF 295.6KB)
- Homebirth and midwifery caseload practice (PDF 2.85MB)
- How to know you're in labour (PDF 640.59KB)
- How do children grieve? (PDF 361.77KB)
- How to make Baby Wraps for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PDF 267.77KB)
- How to make fabric hearts for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PDF 493.91KB)
- How will I know I'm in labour? (PDF 640.59KB)
- Hyperemesis gravidarum
- Hysterectomy (PDF 481.67KB)
- Hysterectomy- preparing for your surgery (PDF 378.95KB)
- Hysteroscopy (PDF 454.33KB)
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- Ideal weight gain during pregnancy (PDF 114.01KB)
- Important nutrients during pregnancy (PDF 476.56KB)
- Induction of labour (PDF 4.26MB)
- Infant formula and bottle feeding (PDF 5.87MB)
- Information about ‘dummies,’ ‘pacifiers’ or ‘soothers’ in Western Sydney Local Health District Newborn Care Nurseries (PDF 726.94KB)
- Information for overnight support people (PDF 629.51KB)
- Intermenstrual bleeding (IMB) (PDF 309.29KB)
- Iron infusion (PDF 2.39MB)
- Iron needs in pregnancy brochure (PDF 13.77MB)
- Irregular bleeding while using LARC (Long Acting Reversible Contraception) (PDF 382.34KB)
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- Maintaining a healthy body weight (PDF 347.84KB)
- Making the best of hospital visits for children (PDF 243.93KB)
- Management of Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy (PDF 1007.83KB)
- Management of third and fourth-degree tears (PDF 422.92KB)
- Managing your labour (PDF 418.55KB)
- Managing your pain after your surgery (PDF 371.63KB)
- Medication to dry up breastmilk - lactation suppression (PDF 254.19KB)
- Methoxyflurane in pregnancy (PDF 2.41MB)
- Midwifery at Home (PDF 2.1MB)
- Miscarriage Management Options (PDF 665.43KB)
- Mixing breastfeeding and infant formula feeding (PDF 940.02KB)
- Monitoring baby's heart rate with cardiotocography (CTG) (PDF 1.19MB)
- Morcellation (PDF 1.55MB)
- Morphology (18-20 week) scan (PDF 245.46KB)
- My birth choices - birth plan (PDF 859.23KB)
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- Natural ways to bring on labour (PDF 454.62KB)
- Neonatal Intensive Care Overnight Rooms (PDF 214.61KB)
- Next birth after Caesarean NBAC / VBAC (PDF 519.3KB)
- Newborn tube feeding by parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) (PDF 170.15KB)
- Normal menstrual periods (PDF 429.03KB)
- Normal vulva and vagina (PDF 535.16KB)
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- Partnering with families to prevent skin and pressure injuries of babies in Westmead Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PDF 885.27KB)
- Pelvic floor exercises (PDF 423.44KB)
- Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP) in pregnancy (PDF 258.51KB)
- Perineal massage (at 34 or 35 weeks) (PDF 1.14MB)
- Permanent contraception for Men: Vasectomy (PDF 415.19KB)
- Permanent contraception for Women (PDF 275.03KB)
- Phototherapy at Home (PDF 613.24KB)
- Placenta Accreta (PDF 706.34KB)
- Placenta Previa (PDF 1.24MB)
- Placental Abruption (PDF 470.05KB)
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome - PCOS (PDF 578.98KB)
- Post-operative discharge from hospital after major surgery (PDF 1.19MB)
- Post-operative discharge from hospital after vulval surgery (PDF 1.5MB)
- Pregnancy discomforts and concerns (PDF 207.28KB)
- Pregnancy of Unknown Location Management Options (PDF 259.85KB)
- Preventing blood clots in pregnancy and after birth (PDF 172.15KB)
- Pubic Lice (PDF 285.95KB)
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- Safe start (PDF 453.47KB)
- Sexuality during pregnancy and after childbirth (PDF 405.89KB)
- Shisha (waterpipe) smoking for pregnant women and young families (PDF 181.69KB)
- Signs of a well-baby (PDF 314.08KB)
- Skin-to-skin (PDF 919.28KB)
- Stopping Breastfeeding (Lactation Suppression) (PDF 334.28KB)
- Substance use in pregnancy service (PDF 5.28MB)
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- Talking to children about an expected death (PDF 437.96KB)
- The Birth of Your Placenta (PDF 505.34KB)
- The importance of young children asking questions (PDF 253.98KB)
- The Mini Pill (Progesterone Only Pill [POP]) (PDF 196.03KB)
- The role of the support person during labour and birth (PDF 431.85KB)
- Tongue- Tie - information for families (PDF 1.79MB)
- Transferring your special care baby to another hospital (PDF 534.4KB)
- Transvaginal Ultrasound (PDF 2.83MB)
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- Ultrasound scans in early pregnancy (before 12 weeks) (PDF 627.39KB)
- Using Domperidone to increase milk production (PDF 422.87KB)
- Using nipple shields (PDF 453.89KB)
- Uterine fibroids (PDF 267.8KB)
- Uterine fibroids – pregnancy and fertility (PDF 760.16KB)
- Uterine fibroids – treatment option (PDF 403.94KB)
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- Waterbirth factsheet (PDF 579.95KB)
- Westmead Hospital catchment area (PDF 423.87KB)
- Westmead Midwifery Caseload Practice (MCP) Guidelines for Care (PDF 633.59KB)
- What is a Mirena ® Intrauterine Device (IUD)? (PDF 2.87MB)
- What is a sexual health check-up? (PDF 280.26KB)
- What is domestic and family violence? (PDF 563.25KB)
- What to bring to hospital when you are having a baby? (PDF 354.33KB)
- What to expect after Hysterectomy? (PDF 353.83KB)
- What to expect when having gynaecological surgery? (PDF 319.88KB)
- What ultrasound tests are needed during pregnancy? (PDF 584.96KB)
- What we do in DAU? (PDF 798.19KB)
- When baby is not breastfeeding well… (PDF 1017.01KB)
- When the waters break after 37 weeks (TermPROM) (PDF 510.51KB)
- When the waters break before 37 weeks (PPROM) (PDF 426.44KB)
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis) in pregnancy and newborns (PDF 361.25KB)
- Why see a sexual health counsellor? (PDF 295.01KB)
- Womens Health Ward GYNAECOLOGY WARD (PDF 130.18KB)
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