Our Maternity team is here to support you throughout your pregnancy, labour, birth, and the early days of parenthood.
We offer comprehensive maternity care services across two campuses:
- Northern Hospital Epping
- Craigieburn Community Hospital
Our multidisciplinary team—comprising obstetricians, neonatologists, midwives, nurses, physicians and allied health professionals—brings a wealth of knowledge, kindness and experience to your care. We are committed to ensuring that working together, you and your baby will receive the highest quality of care every step of the way.
What to expect from the service?
Team Maternity Care
With Team Maternity, your care will be provided by one of our multidisciplinary teams (Flame, Gum, Willow or Ash). These teams of midwives, obstetricians, social workers and medical physicians work together to provide all of your care during pregnancy. Your care will be organised to ensure you see the right type of clinician for your visits. Typically, most of the care is provided by midwives, with some pregnancy checks by a doctor if your pregnancy has higher risks.
Shared Maternity Care
If you choose Shared Maternity Care, you can decide which of our Shared Maternity Care affiliates – who are accredited GPs, midwives or obstetricians – you would like to see for pregnancy care. You might choose somebody close to home, close to work, or a clinician you already know. Most of your appointments will be in the community but your baby will born in hospital. You can still access other specialists and allied health professionals if needed.
Koori Maternity Services
The Koori Maternity Service (KMS) at Northern Health provides culturally appropriate care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their families through pregnancy until six weeks after birth. Aboriginal health workers and midwives aim to provide continuity of care and holistic care by connecting families with local Aboriginal community services. The KMS offers flexible, person-centred care, strengthened by Aboriginal culture and practice and built upon respectful trusting relationships between women, their families and Koori Maternity Service staff.
Twins Clinic
Twins clinic provides continuity of care by a small team of Obstetricians and a midwife to all women pregnant with twins, from your booking-in visit and throughout your antenatal pregnancy visits.
Specialty clinics
Maternal Fetal Medicine
Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) offers specialized care for women with high-risk, complex pregnancies.
Their services include:
- Managing pregnancies associated with complex maternal medical conditions, fetal abnormalities, complex twin pregnancies and pregnancies requiring increased Specialist fetal surveillance.
- Offering pre-pregnancy and genetic counselling services
- Providing bereavement support
The MFM team provides continuity of care by a small multidisciplinary team including MFM Sub-Specialists, Midwife and Genetics Counsellors. Our team can also provide a single consultation throughout the pregnancy journey to support ongoing continuity within Team Maternity Care.
OPAL Clinic
The Obesity, Pregnancy and Lifestyle (OPAL) clinic at Northern Hospital is a specialised clinic that provides antenatal care to pregnant women with an elevated body mass index (BMI>45) and/or women who have had previous bariatric surgery such as gastric band, gastric sleeve and gastric bypass surgeries. This multidisciplinary team of midwives, obstetricians and dieticians provide continuity via their team and closely monitor and care for women and their babies throughout the duration of their pregnancy.
Coming early 2026: Preterm Birth Prevention Clinic:
The clinic is staffed by an obstetrician and is located within the Craigieburn Health Service. You may be referred to this clinic if you have had previous babies born preterm, or have factors that increase the chance of your baby being born early. Most people who use our service will meet with an obstetrician to develop a management plan to stop your baby from being born early and we will aim to refer you back to your usual Maternity team once your plan is in place and your pregnancy is progressing well. The rest of your antenatal care and the birth of your baby can happen at Northern Hospital Epping.