Pregnancy Care Guidelines

Part A: Optimising pregnancy care

This section outlines principles of perinatal care and gives guidance on providing woman-centred and culturally safe care.

This section outlines principles of perinatal care and gives guidance on providing woman-centred and culturally safe care. It also covers care for specific groups of pregnant women such as: 

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women 
  • migrant and refugee women 
  • women with serious mental health disorders 
  • adolescent women 
  • women in rural and remote settings. 
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