Maternity

Clinical service overview

Sandringham Hospital located in Sandringham, provides care for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies. This includes women with a singleton (one baby) pregnancy, with gestational diabetes (diabetes onset in pregnancy and managed by diet or low dose insulin), women planning a repeat caesarean section, and women with a body mass index up to 35.

Women who plan to birth at Sandringham Hospital, can have their pregnancy care in either:

• the Maternity Clinic in the Women’s Health Clinic.
• with a Monash Health specialist obstetrician in their private rooms or
• in the Shared Care Program. This option enables the patient to continue some appointments with their GP or private midwife during pregnancy. Shared pregnancy care is dependent on the patients wishes and pregnancy care needs.

Find out more about Monash Health Womens services