Birth Centre Royal North Shore Hospital

We recently attended the Birth Centre Royal North Shore for the birth of our child. Staff at the maternity ward ( all midwives) are superb, very experienced, caring and supportive. We were extremely lucky that we received very good care. Thank you very much and you guys are amazing. Keep up the good work.

Given it's position on the lower North Shore, one would expect most people to go to reasonably close private hospitals of Mater and RNS Private. We made the decision to have our child in the public system after speaking to Obstetricians, midwives who have worked with a mixture of the three, and to parents who have had experience with all three. The last parent I spoke with had one child at each and summed up what the professionals had said - best facilities, best accessibility to staff in an emergency - the only two things you miss are a nice meal and a nice bill. We still went into with medium expectations. But the staff were attentive. The facilities in the birth unit were not only new, but had everything one would want. The midwives are on for 12 hour shifts and really made us feel relaxed and reassured. At the time of the birth, there was two of everyone and a lot of intentional double checking (very impressive). Our stay in the birth unit was not rushed. Nor was our stay in the ward. Nearly all the rooms are private and quite large (not too different from the private hospital). There are 8 share rooms, but these are typically taken by the youngest and healthiest of mothers, or those who are staying with family. I spoke with one father whose child was in NICU having been born extremely premature - the family were staying in a double room simply because they were out of town. A very generous and caring thing for the hospital to arrange. We will choose RNS again without issue.