If you or your loved one is having a baby you have probably got lots of questions.
Use our information below to help you find out about your public maternity options, and what to expect if you are having a baby at Centenary Hospital for Women and Children or North Canberra Hospital.
Before you arrive
Canberra Maternity Options is your entry point to the public maternity system. Find out more about the public maternity system, and how to prepare if you're having a baby at Centenary Hospital for Women and Children or North Canberra Hospital.
- Canberra Maternity Options: having a baby in the public maternity system
- Pregnancy care and birthing options
- Rights and responsibilities
- Will I have to pay for my care?
- Things to arrange before you arrive
- What to pack for childbirth
- Getting here and getting around
- Help for individual needs
- Changes due to COVID-19
During your stay
Our birth suites and birth centres offer safe, private and comfortable environments for you to have your baby. We offer a range of maternity services, as well as specialist paediatric wards and clinics, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Special Care Nursery (SCN).
After your stay
We will continue to support you and your baby once you are home.
We have information about what happens after you leave hospital and where you can find services and support.