Private midwives are available in Northern NSW for pregnancy, birth and postnatal clinical care that offers a safe, professional and respectful care relationship.
Byron Bay Midwife Services provide ‘on call’ follow up for postnatal clients in their home for 4-6 weeks. Generally, they visit daily for the first 3-7 days postpartum and weekly thereafter to ensure normal postnatal recovery, breastfeeding support, newborn development and confident mothercraft.
This service is of particular interest to women who cannot access home birth or continuity of pregnancy/birth care through the Local Health District. It also meets a vital gap in providing postnatal care for women in the Byron shire who did not birth at the Tweed Hospital or Lismore Base Hospital.