Launceston Birth Centre
Birth is both miraculous and transformative.
You will always remember it.
Our birth house is your home away from home. The Birth Centre has created a warm and inviting environment for you, your family and your chosen endorsed midwife to make your birth your own. Situated across the road from the Launceston General Hospital, each suite has been designed with your privacy in mind.
Our philosophy
Encourages a woman-centred focus in natural childbirth
Views pregnancy and childbirth as a normal physiological process,
not illness
Acknowledges the broader social, cultural, and physiological factors influencing childbirth
Advocates midwives as primary caregivers of women in normal birth
Emphasises a woman’s right to informed choice of both caregiver/s, and place to labour and give birth
Supports continuity of care in pregnancy and birth
Prioritises mother-baby bonding at all times