FAQs

  • No. It complements - but does not replace - your care. We understand how busy hospitals, midwives and doctors are and we want to be sure that you have all of the inside info to be well-supported and have a safe experience.

  • Many women with gestational diabetes have vaginal births. We’ll help you understand your options and importantly, we help you to stay healthy so that both you and your baby can enjoy a healthy start.

  • Absolutely! We’ll walk you through realistic changes you can make and tools you can use to monitor your nutrition and exercise.

  • Hospital services are great for covering the basics - diabetes education, obstetric care, midwifery care and managing the clinical side of your pregnancy. But what may be missing - and really important to you - is a focus on emotional support, time for all of your questions, additional tips, tricks and steps that can really make a difference between a higher-intervention pregnancy / birth and a lower intervention one, and so on. We think these outcomes are meaningful for mothers and babies, and they help ensure that your baby remains with you following birth.

Diabetes in Pregnancy

Dial a Midwife … we’re here for you - all the way

Managing Gestational Diabetes with Knowledge and Support 🍏

Being diagnosed with diabetes in pregnancy can feel overwhelming — but it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a safe, healthy pregnancy. With the right information, support and planning, you can manage gestational diabetes with confidence.

What You’ll Learn and Gain

  • What gestational diabetes is, and how it can affect you and your baby.

  • Nutrition and lifestyle strategies that work.

  • How to work with your care team.

  • A constant, familiar face in what can seem like a sea of strangers.

  • Guidance on birth planning with diabetes in mind.

  • How diabetes can affect labour and birth - and how you can keep things as normal as possible.

  • Understanding how diabetes can affect your baby and what sort of care you can expect.

  • Ways that you can help your baby to adapt after birth.

  • Ways of maximising connection and bonding with your baby.

  • Strategies to reduce the chance of nursery admission for baby.

We’ll give you evidence-based advice alongside emotional support so you feel reassured, capable and empowered throughout your pregnancy.

✨ Free with your Medicare card
✨ Tailored, compassionate support
✨ Practical tips to complement your medical care

Accessible and convenient

No matter where you are in Australia, you can book a telehealth (or phone) consultation with your midwife. We offer video and phone consults for women in the privacy and comfort of their own home. For new parents and families in rural and remote Australia, it is comforting to know that a midwife is only a call away. 

Highly Trained Midwives

All of our midwives are not only registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, but also endorsed. Endorsement is available to midwives upon application after completion of at least 5,000 hours of practice and obtaining additional qualifications. Endorsed midwives have a Medicare Provider Number and PBS Prescriber Number. 

Our midwives are experienced in all settings - clinics, public hospitals, private hospitals, birth centre, homebirth, private practice and obstetric services.

available

We offer flexible times for appointments and if you need a same-day appointment, we will always try to accommodate you. Use our service as little – or as much – as you need. We encourage continuity of care and would love to be by your side, online, as you journey through your pregnancy and experience the first few weeks with your new baby. We offer home visits for Sydney-based patients (an additional fee may apply).

Bulk-Billing – free care for Medicare card holders

If you have a Medicare card, our phone and video consults are fully covered by Medicare - there is no out-of-pocket fee or gap with a Medicare card. We’re unable to assist if you are outside of Australia or if you’re currently in hospital, and without a valid Medicare card, a small fee will apply.

Supplement your care

We’re super keen to bridge the gap in care between going home from hospital with your baby, and the 6-week check. We also know from experience that many women feel anxious, leave appointments with unanswered questions and find it so helpful to have a single, trusted midwife on the end of the phone throughout pregnancy and for the first six weeks after the birth of their baby.

midwifery continuity of care

Ad private midwives, we offer care for women as early as a missed period, throughout pregnancy and for the first 6 weeks of baby’s life. For many women, our service will provide the only source of continuity and consistency throughout their birthing year.