Abbotsford Medical Practice
ANTENATAL SHARED CARE
Antenatal Shared Care
About Antenatal Shared Care
Shared maternity care means that a woman's pregnancy care is shared between the hospital and a doctor or local midwife who is affiliated with that hospital.
Shared maternity care is an option for healthy women with a low risk pregnancy to have some of their pregnancy care undertaken with their GP and some visits at the hospital, antenatal clinic or midwife clinic or birth centre.
Your GP will advise you how often you should attend for appointments and as your delivery date nears, these visits will increase in frequency (e.g. fortnightly/weekly rather than monthly).
Your GP will arrange all necessary blood tests, ultrasounds, hospital visits etc. during this time and communicate this information to your midwife and/or specialist obstetrician.
All doctors can confirm and estimate dates for your pregnancy and arrange early testing if problems arise.
Postnatal check-ups at 6 - 8 weeks may be performed by your GP.
Dr Cotterell, Dr Brown, Dr Thurston, Dr Puranik, Dr Caristo, Dr Liu are all affiliated with RPA Women and Babies antenatal shared care program